while i am at it, i don’t think it is necessarily true that a woman of color is predestined to lose a presidential election, but i think attempting it under these circumstances and in this time frame takes a bar that’s already higher than it has ever been and doubles it
I've said from the start that if they really wanted to get Biden to step down, they needed to come out strong for her simultaneously and signal that they would rally around her. They pretty clearly showed that they wouldn't.
It doesn't bode well for the insistence on norms, ethics, and rule of law team if we're chucking out the VP for some personality, some messiah, some divine wind, some savior, etc.
It's magical thinking.
And if the press wants to say that Harris is not viable because she's too unpopular, they might want to ask why that is and if they had anything to do with it.
Definitely, but that won't happen now or until years later. Similar temporal constraints and concerns on checking and balancing a king imo. No willingness to admit fault or error. Absolutism will be the death of us.
And if they actually had some divine savior, there'd actually be one name thrown out instead of a list of five or six people that basically says "I have no concrete idea, any white person will do."
Every time I hear someone saying Biden must step down, my answer is always, "For who? And how do they get selected for the nomination? And how do you know they'll do better?"
Then you have a conversation, not magic hoping.
At my camping weekend, someone wanted Newsom and we went back and forth about it, but at least that's concrete.
i'm against biden stepping down, it's too risky...as far as Harris goes her polling is due in part to the media again, but that being said she's great in debates & would tear Trump apart
If I were him I'd declare her illegitimate, her candidacy undemocratic, & refuse to have a thing to do with her. Treat her as subhuman scum, & claim anyone who said I did it for inappropriate reasons is a woke race-baiter. The gameplan for Kamala is child's play. Trump wouldn't lose a step.
Trump already has a line of attack against Harris, which is basically racism and sexism, including a sleeping to the top accusation. Whether it will work better than other attacks, IDK
