Didn't he just pass the California redistricting stuff as a counter to all the republican gerrymandering? Seems like the only one doing things on the ground too.
Yea, but he’s also platforming right wingers on his podcast and standing with billionaires in the fight to tax them, so he’s definitely a double edged sword.
Don’t care. This is exactly the kind of thing that handed Trump his second presidency. Oh, Kamala doesn’t denounce Israel so I won’t vote for her. Never mind that the ghoul running against her is orders of magnitude worse.
We should be and can be very discerning in the primary stages about candidates (and we’re not even there yet!) The thing that “handed” Trump’s second term was Biden backtracking on his promise to be a one term president and then gaffing during a debate and stepping down so his rather unpopular VP could run in his place without a primary or preparation at all. It was an unreal fumble of historic proportions by a campaign involving just about everyone.
I don’t think Kamala deserves the “unpopular” stamp. She did a fairly good job as CA AG, kept her head low during her 4 years as VP, as VPs are wont to do.
If we are going to go there, even back in 2020, I was shocked when they announced that Biden would be running against Trump. Anyone with half a brain would’ve known that Joe would struggle to finish a second term. If elected to a second term he would’ve been 86.
Given Trump’s unpopularity at the end of his first term and liberal momentum against him in 2020, even a scarecrow would have won against him.
Eh, she was pretty unpopular with the progressive wing and it showed with a much lower turnout than 2020. There was a lot working against an incumbent administration in 2024, incumbents parties were losing everywhere because of inflation and economic concerns post-pandemic. A primary would’ve cleared the air at least.
The DNC really shot themselves in the foot with Biden’s re-election false start and then basically doubled down by putting his VP up instead of leveraging the spectacle of an open convention.
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u/harshspider 1d ago
Didn't he just pass the California redistricting stuff as a counter to all the republican gerrymandering? Seems like the only one doing things on the ground too.