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I mean he's going to stop serving because he lost his primary... (not just for governor, for his own House of Delegates seat ;__; )
I thought that Virginia law allowed a person to simultaneously compete in two elections (maybe if they were the incumbent for one).
He may have chosen not to run as a Delegate and concentrate on running for Governor.
It does. He ran for both, focused more on the Governor race, and lost both.
I didn't realize he lost his Delegate seat.
Perhaps he should have just concentrated on that election, unless he figured he was going to lose anyway, so he deiced to go out in a proverbial blaze of glory.
Well, he could have done without picking unnecessary online fights with the DSA, and losing their volunteer force.
I think it started in 2018 when some DSA members raised question about his abuse claims (in that they wanted to be sure he wasn't pre-empting to cover up his own part in it), which at some point escalated and caused a rift with Lee Carter making blanket statements about the organization as a whole, conflating it with his concerns that the organization is too liberal. His partner/campaign manager created the Rose Caucus, which was founded on the concern the DSA wasn't leftist enough, which ran an electoral slate of 25 candidates with no victories. This past year, he started twitter attacks on the DC DSA chapter and individual members (one for having a low-level job at Center for American Progress), most notoriously saying this: https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1356406734890401792
Certainly, I think it was stupid of him to create a major issue with an organization that would have otherwise gladly worked with and supported him.
Of course, that tweet in verbatim could get posted by somebody on here and it would get a respectable response. I do realize that there is a distinction between somebody actively trying to get elected to office and a random person on the internet.
I mean given his tweet he clearly hated being a delegate, maybe this is the best for him.
Truthfully, Carter had an uphill battle.
That being said, I'm surprised he did that poorly.
Way too online.
He won his first election knocking doors and meeting people.
Lol, you think that Bernie campaigned too online, too?
What you see here is establishment powers more than lack of door to door knocking.
His tussle over his wife on Twitter and arguing with the local DSAs was not productive.
He did best in the community he was representing -- which was awesome. I think he became too enamored with the likes on Twitter imho.
