Who have you ruled out?

[Awsi Dooger]

109. Harris, Warren, Gillibrand, Gabbard

We can't afford to damage the gender perception based on back to back defeats. That's why I don't want to nominate a female unless it is a special female who can win. Others are vastly overrated in terms of how they would hold up against Donald Trump.

This is an incredibly unfavorable cycle from a situational standpoint. Incumbents whose party has been in power only one term basically don't lose. That's why I don't want to risk the stigma against females. We already ran a female in a somewhat negative scenario in 2016. The out party generally wins a race like that, after one party has held power for two terms. Now if we follow that up and nominate another female who loses, that will become the theme and the stigma. Nobody will know or care that we tried the Mitt Romney approach of running twice consecutively in the worst situations imaginable. This is back to back exactly what Romney faced in 2008 and 2012 -- trying to hold onto power after 8 years, and then attempting to recapture from that incumbent.

I'll vote for the Democrat in November. This is merely primary talk.

We need Beto to enter. None of our other males has the ideal blueprint.