I like her, but she was never set up to rise. Despite her qualifications, Harris couldn’t win a game of pickleball against Stevie Wonder at this point.
you like copmala?
only qualified to send prisoners to battle wildfires for pennies a day and arrest mothers. she’s keeping the rfk assassination sealed about the only reason i can think of.
I don't LIKE her, but she's the only candidate that makes sense at this point in the election. Anybody else, and there'd likely have to be a whole new set of primaries before the convention. With Kamala they can at least say she was already on the ticket with the most delegates.
Plus Republicans working in conjunction with the MSM managed to kill a potential Harris candidacy before she had spent her first month as VP. It was kinda impressive.
Trump keeps doing that this where whenever there’s a question he doesn’t want to answer he pivots to baseless attack and lies. And it works every single time. Nobody, not Biden nor the moderators, calls him on it. If it was a drinking game to take a shot every time this happened, it would be fatal.
I can’t say that, but I do think as Democrats we’re prone to panicking. The election isn’t tomorrow, thank god, and there’s time to fix things and also for Trump to fuck up.
I don’t know. “Fuck up” is pretty broad, it just has to be bad enough to spook undecideds and scare Democratic voters enough that they turn out en masse. All I know is Trump’s base is smaller than the Democratic base.
Presidential debates literally do not matter at all. Kennedy/Nixon is probably the last time they had an impact, and even that has likely been exaggerated
It’s June. The conventions haven’t even happened yet. This debate is going to be a footnote two months from now, let alone four and a bit.
Not to say we might not be fucked at the end, but I don’t think this debate will have much weight on the ultimate outcome.
Best case scenario is that the debate has no impact on voters, Biden ekes out an Electoral College win, and delegates administration to competent wonks.
I wish that I could. But this is a rout. No fact checking from CNN, a torrent of confident lies that are going to hit the mark. And Biden seems addled and lost, with moments of focus but not enough.
Trump consistently underperformed the primary polls. Nikki Haley's sizable number of supporters are not going to Trump. Trump's rallies are drawing fewer & fewer attendees & there were no massive crowds of enraged supporters showing up at his trial.
I didn't want to trust my own impressions because I only volunteered in a nursing home for the elderly for a short time as a young person, but a lot of people who do it for a living have weighed in now, and I don't think this was just one bad debate. This isn't something that gets better.
Trump was completely divorced from reality and that should still matter to anyone who wasn't already locked in for him.
Biden sounded genuinely ill, but flu, not the kind where his brain is mush.
Well the plus side is never before in human history have such a large percentage of the population been so aware of just how terrible everything is for everybody. That's gotta lead to something positive, right?
Same script as 2020. First debate is a trainwreck, then things improve. Hopefully debate #2 cements the pattern into place. Even so, the debates feel more like bad theater than anything effective. How many Undecideds can there be?
Look who's in the felon's shadow and Biden's. Who do you prefer: Stephen Miller, Bannon, the christofascists, Putin, or Kamela Harris, Buttigeig, the Dems in the House and Senate, etc...
No, this is not an accurate portrayal of either candidate. Both were highly constrained, and filled with intense emotion. Biden is a solid guy. Did you see him afterwards speaking?
