Donald Trump will appear on the primary ballot in Washington State. That’s not really news. But you might be a bit surprised to see that the 2024 presidential election is coming at you so quickly.
The Washington Office of the Secretary of State announced it has received candidate names from the Washington State Democratic Party for the 2024 Presidential Primary taking place March 12th — only eight short weeks from now.
The state Democratic Party submitted three candidate names, the announcement says: Joseph R. Biden Jr., Dean Phillips, and Marianne Williamson.
The Washington State Republican Party previously submitted five candidate names for the Presidential Primary: Donald J. Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Chris Christie.
You can now scratch Christie from your GOP voting plans. He bowed out Tuesday.
Voters can choose which party’s primary to take part in. In the Presidential Primary, each voter will be required to sign a party declaration on their ballot envelope to have their vote counted, the Secretary of State says.
The 2020 presidential election saw Washington’s order in the primary season move up to March for the first time. In a “very scientific” poll that year, CHS readers ranked Biden 7th, behind even entrepreneur Andrew Yang but their top issue was beating President Donald Trump. Sen. Bernie Sanders was the big story on Capitol Hill and in the state as he and Biden battled for Washington’s support before Biden went on to win the nomination and, ultimately, beat the incumbent.
Washington, meanwhile, is still sorting out a hole in its all-mail voting system. In the November election, officials found 85 ballots that had not been collected from a USPS dropbox located near Kaiser Permanente’s Capitol Hill campus. USPS officials said the mailbox had been marked with “out of service” signs “multiple times” but the signage was “removed.” The box was to be be taken out of service and replaced, according to USPS. Secretary of State Steve Hobbs says his office has asked what steps the USPS is taking “to prevent out-of-service mail collection boxes from being left in public spaces during Washington elections.”
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Casting my protest vote for Dean Phillips. I know he’s not a serious threat to Biden (and aside from being younger, he may not even be an objectively better choice) but he stepped up when no one else would.
Please explain your logic. Makes no sense to me, at least, based on your justification.
What do you hope to accomplish, what are your goals, and what repercussions are you willing to accept?
I am truly curious. Thanks.
Remember…..protest votes for Ralph Nadar gave us W.
@zippythepinhead I’m not looking to “accomplish” anything. It’s pure protest. And I have no idea what you mean by “repercussions.” (I sure hope that isn’t a threat.)
@ Fritz Wagner I’m well aware of that and I absolutely plan to vote straight Democratic in November. I always do. But voting one’s real preference is what primaries are for. (I protest-voted last time for Liz Warren and the time before that for Bernie Sanders.) It gives me the emotional fortitude to vote for the lesser evil in the general without becoming violently ill.
CKathes,
My curiosity is satisfied. Your protest vote is ‘pure’ as you say.
And there is no threat intended by me. By repercussions, i mean that, as Mr Wagner implied, protest voting can have repercussions, cause and effect, consequences, to use other words.
Examples of consequences of protest voting are Nadar and Bush, and Sanders and Trump, to name a few results of national protest voting.
Sorry to trigger you.
Oh geeze CKathes- it’s not a “threat”, don’t get your panties in bunch. Basically if you vote your “protest vote” you’re fine if the POS takes over and democracy in the USA is done. If you’re ok with that then, well, I guess democracy is done. Thanks CKathes and the rest of the “protest voters”.
Well, again, to be perfectly clear, I’m talking about protest-voting in the primary, not the general election. I expect Biden to be the nominee and will vote for him in November, just as I did in 2020 (and for HRC in 2016). Comparisons to Nader et al. are ridiculous.
And protest votes for Saint Bernard in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania gave us Trump.
In a FPTP system a protest candidate is always going to help the one you agree with the least of the two leaders, by definition.
So you want to cast a vote for Trump. Simpler to just say what you mean.
Last I checked, Trump wasn’t on the Democratic primary ballot.
My knee-jerk protest vote would be for Dave Reichert because I don’t think a GOP candidate would win the State of Wa…but then the bigger picture of ‘what if’ becomes clearer and I go with the option that hopefully aligns more with my values.. I am frustrated with WaSt-Dems and the legislature that they are passing. I want them to stop taking their votes for granted and consider how policy hurts/helps Washingtonians. …but I still don’t throw away my vote in protest.
You don’t really go into why you dislike Washington Democrats, so I can only assume it’s because you’ve been convinced somewhere in your life that anything that’s not the GOP is bad.
What I’m really curious about is what you think Reichert and the Washington State GOP can do better for our state, especially since the entire state party has gone all in on the Trump Kool-Aid, including still parroting the 2020 election denial nonsense that has consumed the entire party nationwide.
You asked nicely. My comment mainly leaned in as to why I do not support protest votes. I can plug my nose, hold my breath, and vote for Hillary. I can vote for Ferguson and not like it.
District 43 Dems more often than not, support candidates and causes that I don’t support on a city/county/state level. On a federal level, I am more in sync. I am generally not a supporter of the DSA and their policy platform, D43 seems to support their candidates and platform more often than a more moderate choice. 10 years ago, I was in alignment, now with backing Sawant, NTK, and Oliver, they lost me. No regrets supporting Ann Davison, Sara Nelson, or Joy Hollingsworth. At heart I am a Scoop and Maggie Dem, and that’s now likely passé for Capitol Hill.
Reichert support in a primary to shake and wake up WA-Dems that they might not be guaranteed a win, would be interesting to me. I, in no way, support the federal GOP platform or candidates, but to stick it to D43 out of anger, it would be nice. Who cares if a random poster on a forum considers that this post is being made by a right leaning GOP supporter, it is more for those that wonder if there are more left leaning moderate individuals out in the district like them, of which I am.
So you would support a terrible politician (remember when Reichert was Bush’s lap dog?) who has only slid further to extremism to gain acceptance in his party, just to stick it to a party that you STILL didn’t state what in particular you dislike about them?
It’s OK to admit that an angry man on the radio/TV/internet is telling you to hate Democrats, rather than dance around the issue.
Considering the laundry list of candidates you claim to support (Davison, Nelson, Reichert), I wouldn’t consider myself a left-leaning moderate, but luckily in our state, you’re free to declare whatever party you want without question or requirement to vote your party.
The Washington state voting system has been broken for MANY Years, ever since we went to the mail in ONLY system of voting. We haven’t had a decent government that worked FOR the whole state and not just the big cities for most of 40 Years
Put down the pipe, grandpa. This is the worst take i’ve read all day, thanks for the laugh!
Last I heard, the USPS delivers to everybody in the state, free of charge, no matter where you live. That’s reality. Fill out with a pen, close envelope, and then let the postman pick up. The strawman MAGA argument doesn’t work here – you can’t always be the victim when there’s nothing to be a victim about.
Translation:
The big cities are where most of the people live. The rural areas voted for Culp last time over Inslee. Culp who couldn’t even keep his 1 cop town of Republic WA from firing him. And who then cried about it on facebook for 15 minutes. Unfit to lead.
When will Republicans quit being the Party of Trump and the Party of government deciding womens health care? They might have a better chance among about 70% of the State of Wa if they would do those two basic simple things.