General Discussion

You also have to factor in that Kamala Harris did so poorly in the same primary (placing far below Buttigieg) that she dropped out before voting even started. Her popularity ratings did not improve during her time as vice president and that "experience" did not translate to voters wanting to vote for her.

At this rate, I suspect it will be Newsom as he ticks all the boxes and has a national profile while no one else does at the moment, and if we're discounting someone like Pete for being gay, that means Harris is out of the running too (newsflash: if the country is too bigoted to elect a gay man, we're too bigoted to elect a Black woman too--you can't have it both ways), but we'll have to see.