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thewayneNot much to say. The question is, what does this do for the race? The classic case for decades is that you support the incumbent president, so there's never much of a primary, and now this. It'll make for a heck of a convention, and it may well have handed the presidency to the convicted felon.
The Democrats have always been terrible at messaging. Joe Biden oversaw perhaps the greatest turnarounds of the economy that the nation has ever seen, and then you have Trumplestiltskin claiming that we have 50% inflation at his convention speech. The media - supposedly liberal - always criticizes Biden's gaffes, even though he's made them his entire political life, and never touches Trump's. It's become clear to me that the owners of said media want Trump to win because he ensures eyeballs to their product.
The one thing that gives me a little bit of hope is the die-hard MAGAts absolutely hate JD Vance, Trump's VP pick, because he married a non-white woman. They are spitting up furballs left, right, and center. I don't know if the DNC will be able to stomp Trump into the dirt, I really don't. They won't be able to campaign on Biden's policies if he's not running. It is an obvious and measurable/demonstrable fact that the country does better under Democratic administrations than Republican ones, but facts don't do a good job of swaying voters.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-drops-out-1235064696/
The Democrats have always been terrible at messaging. Joe Biden oversaw perhaps the greatest turnarounds of the economy that the nation has ever seen, and then you have Trumplestiltskin claiming that we have 50% inflation at his convention speech. The media - supposedly liberal - always criticizes Biden's gaffes, even though he's made them his entire political life, and never touches Trump's. It's become clear to me that the owners of said media want Trump to win because he ensures eyeballs to their product.
The one thing that gives me a little bit of hope is the die-hard MAGAts absolutely hate JD Vance, Trump's VP pick, because he married a non-white woman. They are spitting up furballs left, right, and center. I don't know if the DNC will be able to stomp Trump into the dirt, I really don't. They won't be able to campaign on Biden's policies if he's not running. It is an obvious and measurable/demonstrable fact that the country does better under Democratic administrations than Republican ones, but facts don't do a good job of swaying voters.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-drops-out-1235064696/
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Date: 2024-07-23 08:03 pm (UTC)The Cheeto Benito is grasping at straws. Their entire strategy was predicated against Biden, and now that he's gone, it's wrecked. They have to recalibrate at a very late stage, and I expect there's very little dirt on Harris as she hasn't been a national political figure. Let's see: she's black - not particularly targetable, she doesn't have children - which they've targeted but it's a really weird one, there's just not a lot there for them to latch on to - except for her laugh. There's very little federal law on how elections are to be conducted, except for the qualifications, date, and the workings of the electoral college. The states control how ballots are generated, and since the Dems haven't had their convention yet, those ballots haven't been set!