Speaking of smart choices -- If the Dems were smart (if a frog had wings) they'd stop the slow motion public suicide and start grooming people like Sinema, maybe Condi Rice, Even Joe Manchin for a run.
Just look at the numbers. Not ONLY would they win back their lost Independents, but they could cut into maybe 15% of declared Republicans if they didn't produce a dynamic NEW candidate. Tulsi Gabbard has been doing interviews on all of the conservative outlets and is quite popular with her HONESTY, open mindedness, and objectivity. She's FELT the scorn and pain inflicted from her own party for no other REASON than she's "not up with the American Marxist revolution". Wouldn't ever sign on to defunding the police, or opening the borders like they are today. And CERTAINLY as a vet -- isn't beating a drum to gin up a confrontation with Russia on the Ukraine to DISTRACT from Prez Brandon's issues.