Here’s how Hillary can still win.
Fucking hell you nearly gave me a heartattack… thank fucking god her name isn’t on the actual list - her mentee Harris was though which is still disappointing.
This article is bullshit. Biden is not going to back out unless God forces the issue. And if that happens, Harris is the nominee, because she’s on the same ticket. End of story.
All of those other names are only relevant in terms of who Harris might pick as her VP. My money is either on Kloubachar or Whitmer, with Mayorkas as a dark-horse pick intended to troll the House.
OP was trying to convince people yesterday, apparently with their powers of prognostication, that the DNC will drop Biden for another candidate at the convention.
I’d ask them how they know, but they troll me when I ask them questions.
Oh, there is a non-zero chance that Biden will not be the nominee, but if it happens it will be over his dead body, literally.
Agreed, but that is not what they were claiming. They were claiming the DNC would remove Biden as the frontrunner after deeming him too old.
The DNC won’t remove him. Biden will “heroically” step down (with dementia diagnosis or some other reason) and the DNC will pick the nominee.
At the risk of you trolling me as usual, can you please explain how you could possibly know something like that will happen six months before the convention?
Oh so you’re a crazy person. It’s probably all being controlled by the deep state or something eh?
the dnc clearly chooses their candidates, voters-be-damned
That’s a non-sequitur and I’m not sure what that has to do with Biden dropping out. Do you think he’ll drop out of the race as well?
The evidence that Biden will drop out and the DNC will run someone else is a think-piece by Ezra Klein where he doesn’t actually say that?
Will never happen as long as Trump is the candidate.
Here’s a scenario:
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Trump gets disabled, either medically or legally, whatever.
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Republican convention in July picks a new candidate.
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Biden dusts his hands off, goes “My work here is done…” and steps aside.
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Democratic convention in August picks a new candidate.
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Mayorkas isn’t a natural born citizen (Cuban), he can’t be President or VP.
So much for that idea, then
I’m all in for President Katie Porter.
She’s only 50, she can probably run in any of the next 4 elections after this one and still not be Too Old
4?? She can run in the next 8 elections and still be younger than Biden.
Next 4 Presidential elections
Nobody likes Harris. The only way she’s President is if Biden dies.
The only way she runs is if Biden dies. She’s been too much of a non-entity to have appeal with the party and has significant opposition from the Repubs. I think she’d have a really tough time winning.
The Biden administration should have had her in front of the cameras at every opportunity acting as the face of the administration.
It’s too late now - the choices are locked in. I’m voting for Biden-Harris again but it doesn’t matter because I live in California.
I’m living in one of the safest places in the US in terms of states and cities, but my partner and I are putting together a golden visa/work transfer plan that would drop us in Europe if this election goes south, because I don’t think things are going to get better after that. Think national legislation driven by Texas and Florida.
Same only in Oregon. Harris just isn’t a good candidate, she hasn’t been a particularly effective Vice President and seems to be the source of her own problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/26/kamala-harris-border-visit
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290
And none of this is new…
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html
Biden polls better against Trump than Harris, Newsom, and Whitmer.
To bad we don’t get a primary to see if he really is the most electable Democrat.
We do have a primary. Biden is currently ahead of Phillips and Williamson.
Biden is more of a national name. All that means is that if he were to drop out, he’d need to do a handoff and they’d need time to campaign. The problem is that they’re running out of runway if they’re going to do that.
Why would he drop out if his replacements are at a disadvantage compared to him?
Because the disadvantage displayed by current polling may be an artifact of no one but Biden actually campaigning, and the recognition of the possibility that, were they to actively campaign, they’d have a higher probability of winning.
Whatever the reason, there is no evidence they will ever poll better than Biden
These arguments being made are why this feels like 2016 and not 2012.
Feels more like 2020 to me
I might be mis-remembering, but I remember being pretty confident that almost any Democrat in the primaries could and would have beaten Trump. We’re past the point where it’s meaningful to debate whether one candidate would have outperformed another hypothetically (eg would Bernie have pulled more of the disaffected blue collar white voters who went for Trump). It was closer than I expected and closer than I would have liked, but coming off the polling and voting trends we were seeing I didn’t think the Dems would lose it.
This is feeling more like 2016 in that the Dems are committed to running an unpopular candidate (like her or not as a politician, she was the least popular candidate in presidential history, except for Trump).
There was simply overconfidence on the Democratic side that people would see through the Trump arguments and a refusal to acknowledge that Hillary, while a great candidate on paper, had all the charisma of a Manila folder. Obama and Bill Clinton won on charisma. W kinda cheated and then rode the 9/11 train (but honestly Kerry was a Democratic Bob Dole). Reagan won on charisma. Trump won on racism and charisma (although it’s not a charisma that I get).
I think Biden won on being not-Trump combined with reflected glory from Obama and (for the primaries) being seen as the safe choice. The reflected glory is gone - Obama is far back in the rear view mirror and Biden has his own record now. Agree with it or not, he’s no longer being presented as the safe choice by the press because of his policies and his honestly pretty dismal approval rating. Head to head there’s a serious chance he could lose, and there’s not a Ross Perot coming in from the top rope to tip the election. The board is still out on the third parties - who they’ll pull from - but it’s telling that third party candidates with low single digits could swing the election. Again, 2016.
The only reason he beats trump is he’s not trump. Anyone else is not trump either. If Biden weren’t an option, the others would poll at biden’s numbers.
I see no reason to believe that anyone else would poll higher than Biden.
Biden is more of a national name.
More national than his own vice president?
Absolutely. The VP position is not a high profile position, and Harris has been disappointing even in that regard - and I’m saying that as someone from California who would have supported her for president. Whether you want to base it on racism, sexism, personality, or the administration in general, she’s mostly been balancing on the knife edge of being a non-entity and being actively disliked.
My personal hope was that Biden would make Harris a front and center member of the administration in preparation for stepping down after one term and giving her a slow pitch over the plate to be the next president. He did not do so - she was more in the shadows than Biden was under Obama, and far more than Cheney was under W or Gore under Clinton. The theme for the past four years should have been transitioning, rather than Biden pulling a Reagan while riding off into the sunset. Whoever Biden picked should have played that role. It could have been Pete, it could have been Warren, it could have been anyone picked from the Democratic candidates or from state governments.
What I’m saying is that there is absolutely no way that we should be looking at a very realistic possibility of a Trump re-election and that this is feeling a lot more like 2016 than 2020.
Way more national than his vice president. She just plain won’t beat Trump.
And none of them stands a chance against Trump.
Biden is not leaving unless Trump does.
7 Democrats who could replace Biden if he drops
his 2024 reelection biddeadAs if they wouldn’t pull a Weekend at Biden’s. He already got the sunglasses
It’s too fucking late to replace him. This should have started 4 years ago.
“Here’s seven random corporate hacks the owners of Business Insider want running the Democratic party.”
