Navy Veteran Joins AOC & Progressives

Progressive and navy veteran, Jose Caballero challenges Rep. Susan Davis in California’s 53rd congressional district. John Iadarola and Jose Caballero break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: 

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"If we’re to believe early polling, the 2020 primary and general election is likely to bring progressive voters out in droves. Not only is there the impetus to defeat President Trump, but San Diegans will also be voting for a new mayor, three Board of Supervisors races, and five city council seats.

But with the exception of Duncan Hunter in the 50th District, San Diego’s five Congressional races haven’t been getting a lot of attention. This could be due to the fact that most political insiders see San Diego’s four congressional Democrats (Susan Davis, Scott Peters, Juan Vargas and Mike Levin) as being easily reelected come November.

One of these seats, in particular, bothers Jose Caballero.

“She hasn’t followed through with a lot of the progressive policies she’s run on,” says Caballero. “For me, I felt like she needed a challenge from the left. She hasn’t ever had a real challenge in a primary and I feel like the voters in the district deserve that.”

Caballero is speaking about U.S. Rep. Susan Davis. He’s hoping to successfully pull off in California’s 53rd congressional district what candidates such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Dave Brat have done in New York and Virginia: Beat an entrenched veteran representative in the March primaries by bringing more attention to that representative’s record. In the case of Ocasio-Cortez and Brat, each did do by campaigning on refreshing new visions and supporting policies that moved away from the center—to the right in the case of Brat and to the left in the case of Ocasio-Cortez. Caballero sees San Diego as moving more to the left."

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