b-boy bouiebaisse: this is my fundamental issue with all of these guys. baseless confidence bordering on arrogance. something also tells me that a person of different demographic characteristics with the exact same political record would not be dismissed so easily

The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

I can’t imagine asserting with unwavering confidence that I knew who was or wasn’t the best candidate against Trump.

this is my fundamental issue with all of these guys. baseless confidence bordering on arrogance. something also tells me that a person of different demographic characteristics with the exact same political record would not be dismissed so easily

Biden is in a much worse position than he was in 2020 but he still can just say “hey these are the same guys who wrote me off then”

Does seem sort of underpriced that Biden was objectively right the last time we had this argument

The whole thing with the NYT elevator operator squeeing over him will be in a movie someday and people will say it’s corny made-up bullshit

It's especially frustrating because she was right there in plain view on the ballot in 2020. Americans have ALREADY signed up for Harris replacing Biden in a pinch.

Well Karl Harris would be a serious politician who understood the electorate and could embody both a tough-on-crime ethos and the party’s racial liberalism, one assumes

The most successful Democratic candidate in the past quarter century was a Black dude. Somehow they forget.

It broke their brains. They were okay with *him*, but the Idea! that we'd bring "those people" into actual power? Horror.

Guys being among the operative words here. Lotta pissed off people if anything happens that doesn't simply replace Biden with Harris his vice president. Choose the dude you want to serve with her. But choose her.

Easy to be confident when (you think) you have no stake in the game.

I note he doesn't actually have an answer to the question!

If you could handpick the candidate to run vs Trump who would you pick ?

Taylor Swift, of course

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