[Peace] Khanna’s “Bold” Prediction that Pelosi’s Kennedy Endorsement Will Help Markey Win Bigger

[Robert Naiman]

Khanna’s “Bold” Prediction that Pelosi’s Kennedy Endorsement Will Help
Markey Win Bigger

Following Pelosi’s endorsement of Kennedy over Markey, Ro Khanna “boldly”
[his word] predicted on Twitter that Pelosi’s endorsement of Kennedy would
backfire and help Markey prevail by an even bigger margin.

This prediction was “bold” in more ways than one. I didn’t think through
all of its implications at first.

It’s remarkable if the prediction is true. It’s remarkable that Khanna is
making the prediction on his Twitter feed.

Khanna is asserting that Pelosi’s endorsement is becoming politically
radioactive to Democratic Primary voters in competitive contested primaries
in Blue districts if the AOC forces are united on the other side. It’s
plausible that Khanna’s assertion is true, after Jamaal Bowman beat Engel,
after Marie Newman beat Lipinski, after Cori Bush beat Lacy Clay, after AOC
defeated Crowley,

If that is true, and if House Democrats come to understand that it is true,
it is hard to see how Pelosi could maintain her present power as Speaker in
a “Democratic-controlled House” in the face of a concerted challenge to her
current leadership by House Democrats more in line with the sentiments of
the majority of Democrats who vote in contested Democratic primaries in
Blue districts.

It will be interesting to watch the shock wave from Massachusetts to the
House Democratic Caucus if Markey now defeats Kennedy. “The shot heard
‘round the world,” as it were.

If Markey now defeats Kennedy, we’ll be living in a post-Pelosi world in
terms of the dominance that Pelosi has wielded in Democratic Party politics
up until now. To articulate the thought is to visualize living in the
beautiful world in which it will be true. The Markey-Kennedy race is now a
referendum on Pelosi’s leadership in the Democratic Party. If Pelosi loses
the referendum, then we’re living in a post-Pelosi world, like Europe after
the Battle of Waterloo.

And if AOC voters turn out for Markey over Pelosi, then they will turn out
for Alex Morse over Pelosi’s fossil fuel bagman Richie Neal and for Ihssane
Leckey in the open seat vacated by Kennedy. So it will be a threefer. It
will be a hat trick, a triple play. It will be a three-run home run against
Pelosi’s mis-leadership of the Democratic Party.
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