Everything's complicated and my hesitation about replacing Biden up to now has been informed by polls showing other candidates not doing much better. But a lot of people seem remarkably certain that Harris specifically could not win a general election for reasons I think they should say out loud.
There's a very specific personal vulnerability there that I'm surprised hasn't come up much on the right, but my sense is that doubt here is more about, uh, demographic concerns that haven't really been fleshed out or justified explicitly. Could be wrong.
This is very valid and true, but if the choice is between her a guy who cannot reliably complete sentences without a teleprompter...I dunno, man.
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To be fair, the last time she was in a national election, everyone thought she would be a formidable candidate but she did terribly, and was widely considered a surprisingly poor campaigner. So there is a data point.
Anyway, if Biden stays in, which seems likely, I don't think telling people "no, he's fine, actually" for the next several months is tenable. I don't know what you say instead. But openly lying to voters over and over again about something they know to be untrue probably hurts Dems long-term. So.
They need to stay on the message that he's not Trump, and reinforce that by repeatedly reminding everyone of Trump's failures in his previous term and the insanity of "Project 2025" or whatever they're calling it.
Nobody I know is voting for Biden so much as they're voting against Trump. That was true before the debate and it's still true now.
Joe could be in a vegetative state and still be "Not Trump."
Hey, that's great. I'm glad you've got a candidate you can vote for and feel good about it! I don't think many people can say that.
In objective terms, Biden is probably the best president of my lifetime too, but that's an awfully low bar.
Yes. My ideal candidate has never run. I supported Obama in the 2008 primary because his big issue was climate change. He won and immediately pivoted to health care. I didn’t support Biden in the primary and he’s been way more liberal than I imagined. I’m excited to vote for him again.
