Charm City Slicker (58-38): Going all in on Latinos + (often downwardly mobile) young urban whites gets you a decent constituent base that is even large enough to win Western states and some lily white places like New England and the Plains, but it is not a winning coalition inside the national Democratic Party.

We've known what's what about Biden from the jump. What we're learning fully now is how lazy the people running the party are. Purely reactive, a faith things will work themselves out till the last minute. Ironically, we saw this when they finally rushed to put Biden over Sanders in the first place.

President Biden’s campaign had a bright fund-raising spell immediately after Thursday's presidential debate, but many big donors were alarmed by his shaky showing. Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden.

Major Democratic Donors Ask Themselves: What to Do About Biden?www.nytimes.com Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so.

Does not speak highly of the left's power that we keep getting washed by these guys!

the left complaining in 2020 "they made a backroom deal to get pete buttigieg to endorse him!" like that's really what we're losing to? It's like saying you got beat up in the schoolyard by the science club.

It is *extremely* telling who is still aggrieved about the centrists coalescing around one person (which of course was going to happen eventually) in 2020 instead of being angry at the Sanders campaign for giving up on Black voters ex ante facto. Losing by 30 points in SC was an embarrassment.

The entire strategy was to eke out a solid 20 to 30 something percent plurality and it was a viable one for the purposes of winning that primary as long as the field was divided, which it was for a remarkably long time. But it was never a mass movement and folks need to come to terms with that.

Going all in on Latinos + (often downwardly mobile) young urban whites gets you a decent constituent base that is even large enough to win Western states and some lily white places like New England and the Plains, but it is not a winning coalition inside the national Democratic Party.

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