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.
this isn’t about whether or not you personally like kamala harris. the vice presidential candidate is chosen as the one to step in if the president cannot fulfill his duties. passing her over in this moment would fundamentally change the way veeps are chosen going forward.
Running for re-election is not a duty of the president. That is the president as the leader of his political party which is different. I am all for Harris if that’s what the Party decides. But if Jim Clyburn says he likes the idea of a “mini-primary” I’m going to defer to him.
No, but if this president and this vice president were chosen to run for reelection, and he can no longer fulfill the choice, there should be no issue with her being the choice. She was the voted choice!
No she wasn’t. She is the VP because Biden chose her. She never won a single vote on her own. What is more important? Winning or honoring some imaginary line of succession. She would be very well positioned to win at the convention but it should be a contest. I want this bc I want to win in Nov.
If you want to win in November there is every single imaginable reason to think you do not want 3 days of Democrats in a giant stadium n-way brawling over who the nominee should be after a month of media spectacle.
Like I’m really sorry this isn’t gonna be the exciting made for TV election that pundits can fill column inches with. Fighting fascism is gonna be really boring. Fighting is 99% boredom and 1% terror. But it’s not a reason to Leroy Jenkins the primary process at the last moment
We are fighting fascism but we are incapable of having a convention in which 4700 delegates from 50 state parties consider their options and vote for the best person to win against the fascist. Why would anyone vote for such a useless party?!
The majority of Democrats seem to disagree with that and the majority of Republicans seem to agree with that so just on the numbers I’m inclined to think the people pushing this do not want Democrats to be successful in elections and the people opposing this do
I don’t understand why it must be a brawl. Does everyone not see the danger? Haven’t we all been talking for months and months how fucking dangerous Trump is? But when it comes to selecting the best nominee and rallying behind that person — oh no that would never work we are not a functional party
We are a functional party god willing and that is why this isn’t going to happen. Because functional parties don’t do this. We have had a primary. Any eligible Democrats were free to run. Many did and the people chose.
Well now you’re making things up. Many eligible democrats did not run! Our best governors and senators didn’t run because they didn’t want to damage the president if he was going to run. That was really Biden’s decision. When he said he was running that was it. No one was going to challenge him.
Nobody voted for Harris to be the presidential nominee. They voted for Biden to be the nominee. If he steps aside then a new nominee must be selected. The primaries were a rubber stamp in the absence of any of the several Dems of stature who would have run if Biden hadn’t
