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Agreed that there's no way of knowing for certain if it would work but that's not an excuse to keep doing what's clearly not working and might actually be hurting
what you want isn’t Nominee Harris. it’s a comfortable lead over Trump. the evidence that switching to Harris will produce that comfortable lead is nonexistent. so reassure me that you’re not going to continue filling your drawers if you get what you say you want.
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do you mean running the incumbent President for a second term?
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Correct, that is going very badly
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it is far from clear that it isn’t working. we are not in Hail Mary territory, we are not freerolling this, and Harris is not our only possible path to victory.
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Pretty clear! And he's articulated no vision for how to change this. Combine it with 1) years worth of consistent polling finding majorities of Dems don't want him to run again and 2) Harris's improving approval numbers and continued saliency of abortion, her strongest issue.
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not exactly beating the allegations of bedwetting here
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Real democracy is throwing the primaries away and letting a Disney heir decide on the candidate.
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There was no primary. There was a coronation that a couple of egotistical maniacs crashed.
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The primaries were open. Who did you want to run that didn't?
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Are you in denial about how incumbent-year party primaries work?
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Of course I know about incumbency advantage, but you're totally disingenuous to call it a coronation. If he was this problematic 10 months ago, I'll say again: Who did you want to challenge him? Why didn't they buck history then?
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No, you don't realize. It's more than a mere advantage here. It's prohibitive. Donors don't want to oppose the sitting president or piss off his allies. People who might want to run would be shut out. But more importantly, voters don't actually get to say whether they really want him or not.
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Voters aren't dumb, they know that there isn't a line for dumping the incumbent and kicking off a real primary.
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And in case you missed it, part of the story is that staff has been carefully sheltering Biden from everyone.
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I'm not who you need to convince to vote.
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Endless conversations about Biden when the target is Trump is a problem. Its not just your vote, it's the fretting and negativity when the focus needs to be on the looming threat of MAGA chaos.
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People have eyes and ears. Denying the reality only makes Dems look like hypocrites and liars.
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Ridiculous. Pivoting to the actual opponent here is no more 'denying reality' than the earlier 'coronation' comment. Your love of hyperbole is a thing, I guess. Have fun with it.
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Absolutely not having fun with a historically weak candidate trying to defeat our wannabe dictator in waiting.