On the downside, he’s relatively unknown on the national stage.
On the upside, it’s a natural progression, he served as governor for a full term and the timing is right to move on to the next political field.
To add to your points, he’s a democrat who won the same exact elections in a state that Trump also won both times, a state that simultaneously elected republican supermajorities and a republican lieutenant governor while still electing him. A straight white southern man who is about as nonthreatening to GOP sensibilities as you can get without actually being a republican.
On the downside, he’s relatively unknown on the national stage.
On the upside, it’s a natural progression, he served as governor for a full term and the timing is right to move on to the next political field.
To add to your points, he’s a democrat who won the same exact elections in a state that Trump also won both times, a state that simultaneously elected republican supermajorities and a republican lieutenant governor while still electing him. A straight white southern man who is about as nonthreatening to GOP sensibilities as you can get without actually being a republican.