@KrazyTheeAlaskan Everyone who voted took it very seriously. There was a lot of discussion about all of these points. On social media, there hasn’t really been anything brought up that didn’t come up in the endorsement process or the voting discussion. Just that in situations like this, someone doesn’t get what they want, or even nobody gets what they want, but that is democracy. You’re right on 🎯that this is all going to come down to voter turnout. #WorkWorkWork 😅

@KrazyTheeAlaskan That is only true if one of the candidates would be able to get 51%, but either way, our endorsement doesn’t take anyone out of the race, it only allows us to support both of those candidates. This is going to be about getting voters and retaining them for November. 🤞🏼 enough voters come out to trigger a runoff, and that we win the runoff. The fact that people threw their hats in the ring is independent of our endorsement. There was healthy turnout for the endorsement vote.

@KrazyTheeAlaskan could we have voted to endorse one candidate? Sure, but we didn’t. There seems to be an assumption about which one would have gotten the endorsement. What if that assumption is incorrect? What happens then? Additionally, in 2021, we only endorsed Forrest. That didn’t get him over 46%. The other candidates stayed in the race. Then, when it came down to Bronson vs Dunbar in the runoff, Democrats and left leaning voters stayed home. So the lesson from that was voter turnout. /2

@KrazyTheeAlaskan We (the 16 house dsitricts, regional vice chairs, and officers) voted to dual endorse. That is our process. Some districts wanted one and some the other. Why is a split vote bad? Does it mean more votes for Bronson? No. The only way his percentage goes up is if people get mad and don’t vote, which hopefully they can be adults. Would it make sense to encourage one to drop out? Not for us. That’s not a realistic option. /1