Some questions that need clear, logical answers that are grounded in reality before replacing a nominee:
What percentage of current campaign staff would stay? What percentage of field sites would remain operational? What percentage of volunteers would stay and campaign for a tbd candidate?
The debate was so bad that large groups of his own supporters have called on him to quit. Not just pundits. My son messaged me in despair told me not to watch and signed off #Whitmer2024. There’s no coming back from that
honestly anyone who even pretends to think parachuting their preferred white person in over the sitting pres or VP is a good strategy is not to be taken seriously. they don't want to win, they want to be pandered to and they don't understand how power and money work
I don't have a strong grasp on how Americans will vote in any given situation, but if there's one thing 2015-16 taught me, it's that the pundit class don't either.
most Americans don't vote. most of the ones who do vote based on fundamentally local/personal issues. the pundit class basically write weird politician rpf fanfic and have no coherent theory of power in order to avoid actually looking American power structures head on.
and quite a lot of abdicate punditry relates to which dear leader gives the pundit in question pants tingles. i desperately want a break down of American punditry via Benjamin because it's all aesthetics and an "issues focus" is derided because it detracts from the aesthetic mode
