i’m just asking you to take a moment to consider this from biden’s perspective: most of the fundamentals still look good for him. he’s beaten trump once. swapping the nominee this late has never worked, and there is *every* reason to believe republicans in every contested state would contest it
anyone who thinks harris is gonna get an easy walk from the nation’s newspapers and editorial boards if she were to become the nominee is absolutely lying to themselves
it’s just incredibly frustrating that no one’s even pretending to look at this from a whole picture standpoint, it is not a small thing, and it is likely, from an odds standpoint based on precedent, to fail.
Sometimes the benefit of being older is knowing that we've been here before. I'm not saying it's smooth sailing but 4 months is a lifetime in politics and polling has become increasingly unreliable.
I think it's got to be Biden period. If for example he decided to drop out, all these Newsom, Whitmer etc fantasies are dead. Especially because experts say only Harris would have access to the current campaign funds. But in fantasy league, none of this apparently matters.
Now picturing Fantasy Democratic National Convention where Harris not only takes all the delegates camping to have s'mores made with a solar oven, on the way back she brings them all out on Lake Michigan to show off boat mode. At least, that was the "plan" ... it doesn't go well.
Have they all forgotten that the deadline to get on the November ballot has already passed in several states? The Ohio lege did its level best to keep Biden off the ballot. Do they really think those jerks in Columbus would agree to a replacement at this late date?
The Ohio deadline is August 7. It's before the convention, but god help us all if the question of who the Democratic presidential nominee is isn't fully settled by then.
This has been my argument the entire campaign. It remains true.
When you look at the big picture, Biden is the safest option to beat Trump based on the currently available data.
I don’t like it, but it’s true.
the only guy in my lifetime not to get reelected is the guy we're trying to beat right now. the last thing we need to do is say, hey, we aren't confident in the guy we picked last time. telling us to make a change means pundits think biden is in a relatively strong spot, and that they hate that.
Shoot, they aren’t even looking at it from one consistent single viewpoint. Every time I see someone argue for him dropping out, it’s just “his polls are awful, and we gotta believe them 100%, but also the polls that show everyone else doing similarly don’t exist or are wrong”
We should hear just as much about how any transcript of a Trump speech or debate answer reads like word salad that got backed over by a truck.
Biden’s performance is receiving legitimate attention, but the press is the dog chasing the car, and the car’s driven by a bunch of Limbaugh wannabes.
