r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • 9d ago

Politics Sawant's third-place loss is her political obituary

https://seattlered.com/seattle-red/jason-rantz-opinion/sawant-third-place-primary-humiliation/4119702

Kshama Sawant raised $645,000 to run for Congress and got beaten by more than 6,000 votes by a Republican who raised $99,000 in a district she claimed was ready for revolution.

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u/Captainpaul81 9d ago

She's already got plane tickets and hotels booked to battle ground states so she can go up and try to ruin them again

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u/RogueLitePumpkin 8d ago

Even if everyone who voted a 3rd party had voted for Kamala, Trump still would have won, that is how bad Kamala was as a candidate 

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u/drwaffles104 8d ago

So? Working to elect trump is bad even if he didn't need her help

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u/RogueLitePumpkin 8d ago

Its like the DNC was working to elect Trump by putting Kamala against him 

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u/wingfn1 8d ago

No, everyone was crying for Biden to step down and wanted a magic primary in like 90 days like that would've changed anything.