Ann Davidson being a bonafide Trumper will probably badly hurt her.
Statewide, Democrats picked well in the AG race this year going with Nick Brown rather than Manka Dhingra, but I’m not sure I trust Seattle voters to have that same type of discipline what with a lot of candidates likely to want a bite at it. If you have a liberal but normal DA candidate and Trump is as unpopular in Seattle next fall as he was last time around then Davidson is likely to lose, and lose badly (though she’ll get some Harrell voters for sure). But if they go with a Stranger candidate again then she has a narrow chance
The choices in 2021 were both not great. I’m hoping a serious candidate can take on Davidson without heading into Nicole Thomas-Kennedy territory. “People should not smoke fent on public buses” should not be a controversial position for a prosecutor
It was a top two primary, with the incumbent coming in 3rd, demonstrating the difficulties of trying to find a middle path on law and order issues. Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, the leftie, probably would have won the runoff if she hadn't made various tweets praising violence against the police prior to her run for office.
What about for the DA race that Dems bungled last time by somehow boosting an anarcho-commie (no joke, she was) to the runoff?
Ann Davidson being a bonafide Trumper will probably badly hurt her.
Statewide, Democrats picked well in the AG race this year going with Nick Brown rather than Manka Dhingra, but I’m not sure I trust Seattle voters to have that same type of discipline what with a lot of candidates likely to want a bite at it. If you have a liberal but normal DA candidate and Trump is as unpopular in Seattle next fall as he was last time around then Davidson is likely to lose, and lose badly (though she’ll get some Harrell voters for sure). But if they go with a Stranger candidate again then she has a narrow chance
She is? That sounds like a big blunder.
IIRC she joined the GOP in 2020.
She’s very quietly kept her head down as city prosecutor but don’t think it won’t come up
She's stated multiple times that she voted for Hillary and Biden: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-attorney-rivals-face-blowback-over-anti-police-tweets-republican-affiliation/. I'm not a supporter of hers (although I would have voted for her over Thomas-Kennedy who represents exactly the kind of public figure that cost us votes in the 2024 general election, if I lived inside the city limits) but I don't think she's a Trumper either.
Hmm, fair.
The choices in 2021 were both not great. I’m hoping a serious candidate can take on Davidson without heading into Nicole Thomas-Kennedy territory. “People should not smoke fent on public buses” should not be a controversial position for a prosecutor
I wouldn't be surprised that if NTK had gotten elected, she'd have made Chesa Boudin look like Wyatt Earp.
It was a top two primary, with the incumbent coming in 3rd, demonstrating the difficulties of trying to find a middle path on law and order issues. Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, the leftie, probably would have won the runoff if she hadn't made various tweets praising violence against the police prior to her run for office.
She also called for seizing unoccupied apartments and hovels to start a commune or some kind of balderdash.