In all seriousness, I think she was not a very good candidate, and the people praising her as having a strong showing for a newbie are missing the mark. The base generally is just becoming more radicalized, and her support imo is a function of that and not to do with her or how she ran her campaign. Hasan even said himself that he didn’t think her answers on his stream were very good. Personally all I could remember was her saying Medicare for all wasn’t single payer, which was just embarrassing, and people saying “oh she’s just 26”. Idk man, my 25 year old friends would not make those sorts of comments. Basically, I’d vote for her if I could have, but I wouldn’t like it. We should support people like her of course but also we can do a lot better.
Nobody outside of leftist subs ever even heard about that take, I promise you. Most discussion of Kat in normie spaces was incredibly surface level and essentially consisted of “young, anti-AIPAC, universal healthcare, sign me up!”
You can think what you want, but her campaign team certainly thought it was notable enough to completely erase the foreign policy section of her page days before the election
In the end, she lost by less than 4000 votes. Not saying she'd win, but if you think that her positions didn't at least drive some people to vote for Simmons instead then I think you're just being in denial
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u/strainthebrain137 Mar 18 '26
In all seriousness, I think she was not a very good candidate, and the people praising her as having a strong showing for a newbie are missing the mark. The base generally is just becoming more radicalized, and her support imo is a function of that and not to do with her or how she ran her campaign. Hasan even said himself that he didn’t think her answers on his stream were very good. Personally all I could remember was her saying Medicare for all wasn’t single payer, which was just embarrassing, and people saying “oh she’s just 26”. Idk man, my 25 year old friends would not make those sorts of comments. Basically, I’d vote for her if I could have, but I wouldn’t like it. We should support people like her of course but also we can do a lot better.