My unrealistic choice is Tulsi Gabbard
Not a phony baloney liberal elitist.
---She served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009.[5] Gabbard previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004, becoming at age 21 the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature at the time.[6]
Gabbard is noted for her unorthodox political positions within her party.[7] Gabbard supports abortion rights, opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, has called for a restoration of the Glass–Steagall Act, and changed her stance to support same-sex marriage in 2012. She denounces aspects of American government policy in wars like those in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and opposes removal of Bashar al-Assad from power, arguing that the country's civil war is a source of the Syrian refugee crisis.---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
What makes those, except for the al-Assad component, peculiar for her party? Supporting abortion rights is hardly novel. The TPP opposition and support both cross party lines. Glass-Steagall is another piece that is pretty common - Clinton opposed it, as proposed, because it would not have prevented the 2008 problem and she wanted something stronger that would have gone beyond G-S.
Who didn't denounce how we handled Iraq, even among those who believed we should be there even after we discovered there were no WMD there.
I like Tulsi Gabbard, Luee, but none of what you listed make her particularly stand out. She has other redeeming features.
But she would be under 40 on Inauguration Day, 2021, and I think that would be very hard for a ton of voters.
She served her country, she is a democrat, she did not drink the Saudi moderate rebel kool aid and she definitely is not a liberal elitist of the Clinton-Warren ilk. Most importantly she has proven she can win elections. Assad was a big issue for me he was the only leader of the time who fought ISIS and won. Half the world would have worn black masks and butchered Christians.
"She has proven she can win elections."
Luee, her district has
never elected a Republican. Never.
When they have had wide open special elections, without primaries, no GOP candidate has reached 10% of the vote, while 2 or 3 Dems finished ahead of them. They have not topped 30% since 2006 and have not topped 40% since 1972!!
She has proven nothing by winning in the Hawaiian 2nd Congressional District.
Please, Luee, stop and think before you post this bullshit. Or at least research, first?
p.s. Her father got 37.23% as the GOP candidate for that seat in 2004, but he shifted to become a Democrat in 2007 and is a current state senator.
Poll
5 (45.5%)