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    I’m actually pretty dang hopeful right now. The right has spent so much time and effort focused around Joe being old and tired, and now that is all dead in the water.

    Now we have a new candidate starting from zero with many people, vs trump which is obviously very well known. In short I’m trying to say we have the element of surprise, the benefit of the unknown. They have to convince moderates that this new candidate is still somehow worse than trump, and these aren’t the hard right people, these are the undecided (somehow) and centered voters.

    Far right voters will always back trump, but the indecisive voters and moderate Republicans who don’t like trump but fell for the years of propaganda against Biden have been wanting anyone who is better than Biden but not trump. Same with more centered Democrats, not that they wanted to vote for trump but Biden was not a great candidate for them either.

    The rights whole plan was “Joe is so much worse than trump!” and they had 16 years of content to pull on. They can’t do that again with a new candidate. People say they handed the election to Republicans. I think it’s the opposite. I think Republicans demanding Joe drop out when anti Joe was their only message may have just accidentally handed the election to Democrats.

    If the Dems come out strong on this I think it could shake up the whole election. I see people online saying doom and gloom, I strongly disagree, I think this is a huge rallying cry.

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      Joe being old and tired, and now that is all dead in the water.

      Nope. Now it’s trump who’s old and tired. Kamala needs to go after trump and his crime family like she would other criminals and prosecute them in the press. She is a former prosecutor, after all.

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        I was very against Biden dropping out, but i think this is a pretty good point. I think it is still very risky for her to run due to race and sex discrimination, but it might not be a predetermined loss at least.

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          I think that’s the invigorating thing as a Democrat. I was feeling beat down and tired, we knew what the outcome was more or less, a razer thin margin on either side. This completely changes that equation, and it means both sides will have to really amp up their game. Democrats just proved they’re willing to throw the hail Mary and that makes me really excited!

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        Honestly yes, not that the hard right will see that, but yes she has the huge opportunity to say something like “it’s time we put power in the hands of people who will see the effects of it” so to speak. If she used rhetoric similar to that it could be impactful for getting young people to actually vote like they did for Obama

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          Biden has an opportunity to make speech saying something like, “I’ve decided I am too old for the job, as anybody over 70 should be. It is time for the oldest generation to step aside for their children and grandchildren. It is they who know what the world needs, because they are the ones who will live in that world. The younger generations should no longer elect anyone who is out of touch with their needs.”

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            That’s what he should do, now let’s get back to reality, that’s never going to happen. That would require the geriatric fucks who put us into this godforsaken mess in the first place to admit that they just might have been, wrong and to give up their power to someone new. They’d rather die and leave the country in turmoil than do what’s right. And it’s across all three branches of government, it’s not anything exclusive to the Congress critters. Just look at how we got our current Republican controlled SCOTUS. These fuckers aren’t going to leave on their own, they need to be forced out.

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              That would require the geriatric fucks who put us into this godforsaken mess in the first place to admit that they just might have been, wrong and to give up their power to someone new.

              That literally just happened?

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                Show me where there is anything even close to an admission of being wrong? Where is he saying that running again was a mistake and that the party needs to be looking to younger members to take them into the future?

                Biden isn’t apologizing for the waste of campaigning up to this point. He got COVID again and combined with the massive push due to the clearly pertinent age-related health questions, there’s just no option to keep going. He’s only dropping his bid because it’s being forced.

                He’s not leaving because he wants to, or because he’s had any sort of realization.

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        Yeah, all their shooting against Biden will now come back to haunt them. It’s not like Trump isn’t a senile old man. He’s just senile in different ways.

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          More malicious, incompetent, and openly hostile ways. He’s the elderly home resident who none of the nurses want to help because of what an awful person he is.

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      I agree completely. I think the strong move for Harris will be to focus her campaign around abortion rights and promise to fight for federal laws guaranteeing the right to an abortion, even to the point of openly defying the Supreme Court if they reject the law. She also needs to focus on court reform, push for a strict code of conduct to be enforced against the supreme court, and either impeach/replace Alito and Thomas or (if there aren’t enough votes for that) eliminate the fillibuster to pack the courts with only a simple Senate majority.

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        I am hesitant about is right now the best time for a black woman president, are the people ready for it, but the way you framed it put it well. A strong eloquent black woman who is ready to put women’s rights at the forefront where her opponent is actively trying to take away those rights may work extremely well.

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          Now is the time for anyone that’s not going to directly try and undermine our Representative Democracy and work to replace it with an Authoritarian Dictatorship. Trump has literally said he wants to be a dictator on day one, and we know the Republican Project 2025 plan. I don’t give a shit if that means we’re voting for a random dude in an Easter Bunny outfit, I’ll suck it up and vote for a furry if it means we don’t go down that path.

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          Maybe now’s the best time to mix things up. This could be the last election before the fall of the democracy, why not go all out? I’m actually really excited for this move, and despite a little uncertainty at first I’m fully onboard.

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      If the Dems come out strong on this

      That’s my concern. When was the last time they came out strong on anything of importance to the average American?

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        So far just doing this at all is a pretty strong stance. That’s why it’s exciting, I was with you I fully expected them to do nothing. “Biden’s our best shot, stick with that” This is completely out of character for them. (And it was them, the party pushed him to leave)

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        When was the last time they came out strong on anything of importance to the average American?

        When Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

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    I’m not sure, but I think it makes it very unlikely he’ll become president.

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    Seems good, man. Basically that makes the election:

    Decision 2024: Cop vs Felon

    Who will America choose?

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      Thats some dangerou/s thinkin’, u best stick to ur accounting ;)

      Family Guy watchers will appreciate this bit

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      can’t any citizen be president? I don’t remember George Washington running for president

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    I have a quick question as someone not from the US. What is the general opinion that people have of Kamala Harris? Do people voting Democrat have an overall positive impression of her? Or are there people who could be disappointed with the choice?

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      From the US and I pay a lot of attention to politics.

      Her past is she was a bulldog in the courtroom, absolutely a firebrand and ready to take on anyone. By making her VP, her job was mostly to not make the administration look bad, which is a tough job for a firebrand so for years it felt like she was put in the back and kept quiet.

      Roe v Wade decision happened, making the abortion argument on the side of the Republicans getting what they wanted, Biden is a Catholic and male so completely uncomfortable using the fact that abortion is the winning ticket item for the Dems so Harris has been beating that drum hard and getting out. GRANTED the media has been focusing on “Biden too old!” (Legit had to learn a Biden policy from BBC because American news isn’t going to talk about that) so she’s still feeling a relative unknown to the country at large.

      There are people calling for wanting the DNC to do a vote, but we’re past that marker, there’s people disappointed, and then there’s a lot of people excited. Right now this election is going to shape up to be more “interesting” than Bush v Gore or Trump v Hillary.

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      I have heard literally 0 news about her for this entire presidency. She’s probably fine. Definitely better than Trump, so, ya know. Voting time

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        I always thought this was a negative - she squandered the opportunity to stand out - but yoypire probably right

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      She’s generally average from what I’ve heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she’ll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she’s not Trump.

      I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president…which is just about how screwed America is right now.

      Pretty notably she doesn’t have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

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        but - from what I’ve heard while there is a vocal minority of women who are happy about roe being overturned, the vast vast majority of women are not happy about it. For a lot of women born after Roe, for example, it was a given that they had the right to get an abortion, and people took it away from them. I was worried about a woman being nominated - but honestly it might be the perfect time to nominate a woman.

        On one side you have a bunch of old white men literally taking away women’s rights. On the other side you have an actual strong woman who wants to codify those rights into law.

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          Every election with abortion rights on the ballot has gone to democrats since the roe repeal if I’m not mistaken

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            I actually did not know that. I think them finishing off Roe was one of the worst things from a strategy standpoint the GOP could have done. They could have done nothing and had people voting for them for that for years. By doing something all they did was lose one of their best campaign talking points and piss off a lot of people who wanted Roe. I hope it continues to backfire on them.

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      Politically? The general public sees Kamala Harris as a nothingburger. She’s practically a blank slate despite spending the last four years as VP. Nobody’s going to be disappointed because the average person only knows her as a background character.

      It’s the best option the Dems have got, but we’ll see how much they want to win when they announce the VP candidate nomination.

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      I’d say largely neutral. Progressives don’t love her because she was a prosecutor. She has a bit of a reputation for opportunism and lacks charisma but pretty standard democrat overall.

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      I’m in Trump country so I am relaying their opinions not my own. “Whore who slept her way to the top”, “lier that is letting the border crisis happen”, " hypocritic that ruined young peoples lives over pot even though she smoked it too".

      Otherwise nothing burger, and besides the border debate all of the personal attacks are honestly minor compared to how Trump supporter view Trump out here (you know “he’s not a good man but …”).

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      Left left looks at her time as Attornry General of California and sees her as corrupt and responsible for high incarceration rates among other general issues with the overall Democratic party platform.

      libLeft sees her as solid dem if not their new prophet, though not like the right worships trump.

      Center will probably see her similar to a batman police commisioner. Generally assumed good and unencumbered politically.

      Right will only see gender and skin color, and not in a good way.

      Vanilla to anyone not fitting neatly in those categories.

      Her not being seen for the last few years is good for dems as there’s nothing for the Republicans to latch onto beyond racism and mysogyny. They don’t have the long developed hatred that they have for Hillary.

      Realistically it’s the least divisive choice the dems could make.

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    I wonder if Biden’s stepping down was partly influenced by the assassination attempt. If he hadn’t, the most prominent symbol of this election would still be that image of Trump screaming “fight” while pumping his fist against the background of the American flag. But if someone from a deserted island opened a news website today for the first time, they wouldn’t even know there was an assassination attempt.

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    All there is left to do is to fucken send it. Talk to every democrat you know and make sure they know when and how they will vote on voting day and commit to it. Hit up all your younger friends (who might forgor 💀) get that young vote out there cause the older of us most likely know what we are doing already.

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      Yes, yes. Thank you.

      We know the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” crowd was always going to vote for the blue candidate. That’s a given, and beating the dead horse is just preaching to the choir.

      What’s important is that now the Dems have a chance, and the DNC has a precious few days with which to change the future.

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      Biden already endorsed Kamala Harris. That’s who’s going to be on the ticket. That’s who was always going to be on the ticket if it wasn’t Biden. Expecting anything else was delusional.

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        Exactly. If they found a solid competitor, I would bet anything it would be a white guy, and a lot of people, especially women and people of color are going to notice how the LITERAL CURRENT NEXT IN LINE FOR THE POSITION, wasn’t considered for the job.

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        A lot of states have laws that don’t conform to the national primary process. For instance, Ohio has a law on the books that says the official nomination has to occur by a certain date which is before the second major party convention.

        It is important to know that elections are technically run at the state level with some federal oversight.

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            It was considered. They were going to nominate Biden early to be ahead of this date. I don’t think that’s happening anymore.

            It’s also important to know that (IIRC) currently things have been put in place in Ohio for this not to be an issue, but that could change if enough Ohio politicians want it to.

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    I’m pretty sure that him giving up is the best chance he has at success.

    Ironic right?

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    Nobody really knows. The situation is somewhat unprecedented.

    If you’re asking for personal opinions: this was absolutely a catch-22. But I do think that it’s probably a good move in the pragmatic context of “find a way to beat the fascists”. I also think it’s hilighting some glaring flaws in our primary system that I hope will be fixed, but I don’t honestly expect to be.