The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the president’s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whether Joe Biden was going to endorse Kamala Harris or not. And the question didn’t revolve around whether he wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh start going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
    531·
    5 months ago

    the fight is not for maga votes, it is for the undecided morons in the middle.

    • ryathal
      34·
      5 months ago

      The fight is against the couch, idiot undecided voters are basically a coin toss. Getting 80%+ of your supporters to actually vote for you is all you really need.

      Nothing was more demoralizing than Biden in the last debate. Trump against someone under 60 could have the same thing happen to him.

      • John Richard@lemmy.world
        422·
        5 months ago

        People on the couch are the undecided voters. The more Democrats call them idiots, the less incentive they have to vote for whoever the Democrat nominee is.

          • John Richard@lemmy.world
            56·
            5 months ago

            Okay… and what are Democrats going to do about that to help educate America? Are they going to tax churches who act as a conduit for the Republican party and think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, who wants to defund the Department of Education?

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      151·
      5 months ago

      The undecided will be gaslighted too. Are you really sugesting Trump would try to use reason to sway the undecided?
      Trump has only one mode, and that’s narcissistic pathological liar.

      • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
        11·
        5 months ago

        Are you really sugesting Trump would try to use reason to sway the undecided?

        no, i am suggesting that primary goal of democratic candidate is not to go after maga voters.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
          31·
          5 months ago

          He needs to capture his base too, and make sure as many of them as possible will vote, without them the marginal voters are irrelevant.
          Trump will use stupid arguments and lies, and look like he is winning. That’s how he built the MAGA crowd, and that’s the system he will continue to use.
          The undecided he manages to convince to vote for him, will then be supporting MAGA by definition, even if they aren’t as batshit crazy as the hardcore MAGA supporters.

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
        7·
        5 months ago

        No, but a good and clear debater, like an experienced lawyer that she is, would blow him apart. Biden was an effective politician and debated pretty well, but its not his forte in the same way.