i don't know, man, i'm just some humble idiot shitposter, but i do not think that the democratic party trying to usurp the sitting president from the nomination and then also throwing the first black vice-president under the bus will be very popular with the democratic party's voter base
maybe bret stephens and michelle goldberg could check in with james clyburn and ask him what he would do with his influence if the party decided to throw both biden and kamala harris in the trash and replace them with gavin newsom
bouie makes the point that harris inherits all of the administration's unfavorables, at which point stephens and goldberg seem to agree and suggest that harris will need to be muscled out of the way to make room for the whi... right candidate
Semi related but i think a lot of people on the left have memed Kamala is a cop into a worldview where shes disliked by black voters and thats just,,,not the case
I mean, one might reasonably ask if her record is any *worse* than your replacement-level DA or AG, and I've never heard a credible case that it was.
And like you say elsewhere... it's a career path into politics, and we do not actually want these to be jobs no Dems want to take.
I have no idea how black voters feel, nor any idea of how she really feels about anything, she's always said what's convenient. I've been voting against her since she took out the progressive DA from the right. So much ugly history, though, Republicans won't bring it up because they agree.
It was also hilarious to see Bret repeat Harris’ poll numbers as the definitive reason to ditch her, too. He only had one non-racist reason he could openly discuss, and he stuck to it.
Their unspoken calculus is honestly insulting. "Biden's age is a liability to low info swing voters, but Kamala's race and gender is too so we need a generic dem", which completely ignores a huge part of Biden's 2020 win, GOTY efforts by black politicians in swing states like Georgia.
it was v funny watching the serious political reporters lose their minds over that young black security guard in the elevator talking about how much she loved biden
don't worry--if we force aside enough people we'll eventually find the perfect candidate that we'll all agree is amazing and perfect and deserves to be president immediately and I kinda have an idea who that is but why don't we both say who we think it is on the count of three
definitely what benefits the Democratic Party is a convulsive battle over delegates and the nominee at the Chicago convention, because when has that ever not worked out well
Thank you! I didn’t start paying attention to politics until Reagan, thanks to my very political grandma. It’s funny, I didn’t get why she was so into it as a kid and she told me “it gets more interesting the longer you’re around”. She was right lol
It definitely happened with Carter. Ted Kennedy launched a primary challenge to Carter that's often cited as having absolutely kneecapped the party during the election.
I still remember the posters of Reagan, Carter, & Anderson in my first grade classroom. My analysis at that time did not go beyond thinking Carter had the kindest face, even though I wrote my first letter to Congress that same year, unprompted by any adult.
not a huge fan of biden atm & have my disagreements w harris but “they should just drop out to make room for player to be named later”
is literally just fantasy football & if pundits were capable of shame they’d feel it
