The backlash from base voters who very explicitly demanded a Black woman as VP (and on the Court) as our “seat at the table” in exchange for our electoral organizing…whew, you are not prepared.
But almost all of the white alternatives are, and it’s why they keep saying no.
by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.
I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see
I am losing my mind
"stick with Biden or go with Harris" is the open question, anything else is absolute guaranteed disaster
what do any of these people think they're doing
they're getting their names in the newspaper and getting reporters to butter them up for juicy quotes to cosplay as party shot callers, that's it, we don't have to pretend otherwise
I’d like it if more people asking us to make them our most powerful public servants showed any interest at all in serving the public
Or even in acknowledging us as more than a source of votes or poll numbers or funding
Making it more likely Biden refuses to step down, IMO. What is obvious to me is that these donors are less concerned with Biden’s decline and more concerned with running against this whole administration’s labor priorities. They want a reset.
“We are proud of the Biden-Harris administration, but Biden is too old” is a message you can sell. But not if you skip over one-half of that administration.
I'm totally on board with admitting that the combination of racism and sexism in this country means it's hard to elect a black woman, but the pundits aren't saying that
“Biden doesn’t take their calls or wish them happy birthday” may sound like pure egotism on their part. But it also means neither Biden nor Harris is listening to them about policy. They think someone like Whitmer or Shapiro might.
It's so absolutely wild that people are out here talking about a "blitz" primary. It feels like we've learned nothing, and that is incredibly frustrating.
The ones pushing it are not interested in seeing the democrats win - pretty simple. NYT and WaPo are pushing the “dump Biden” in news and op-eds and the other media (npr,bbc,cbc) pick it up.
Yeah, neither those who think Biden should stay in the race nor those who think he should bow out in favor of Harris are delusional
THESE people on the other hand...
It's stunning how much of America's processes are just "tradition" - nothing really written down. If a president steps down, isn't the vice-president supposed to step up? Isn't that what the position IS? Why can't Harris be the nominee?
It is all written down! It’s especially written down in the Democratic Party, which had several unprecedented nightmare scenarios all coalesce together in 1968, after which the modern primary was created. All of these scenarios are nonsense and vibes, not legal maneuvers.
That is a really funny article. A lawyer and a venture capitalist are asking rich people for money under the premise they’ll pick the next president, and according to the grifters I mean planners there has been universal support from everyone they’ve talked to with no confirmation or way to verify
And given how the knives are being readied for Harris, I would argue that they don't gain any positives with Biden dropping out, and probably a lot of negatives.
100%. Anyone who doesn't understand this thinks politics is fantasy football and voting is all a game.
Do any of these pundits step back and say "Wait, why would the party who wins with Voters of Color and female voters piss off BOTH of those constituencies by leapfrogging VP Harris?"
GET REAL.
And really THAT'S only an "open question" in the loosest sense. It's only open if you think there's much of a chance that the president walks back from his categorical DENIAL that there's any such question. I'm not betting on it!
It's not going to end well in Georgia. Black activists helped give Dems the White House and the Senate. Then Atlanta Dems suppressed votes against Cop City and criminalized leftist protest. Silence from Warnock and Ossoff.
