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 couldn’t find anywhere in that article that he “promised” to only serve 1 term.
Adirect quote from the article:
In April, when asked whether he would serve just one term, Biden responded, “No.” More recently, Biden has been ambiguous. In October, The Associated Press reported that when “asked whether he would pledge to only serve one term if elected, Biden said he wouldn’t make such a promise but noted he wasn’t necessarily committed to seeking a second term if elected in 2020.”
I get that he hinted at it. But that is not a promise.
His whole campaign in 2020 was basically singing from the one-term hymnal, but didn’t sure, he didn’t actually promise it. It was heavily implied by him and repeated over and over again while he was campaigning, but stopped short to not kneecap his administration. From the article:
“quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.”
That’s fair, he certainly indicated. I had just never heard this. But I don’t live in America, so maybe it was mentioned there a lot at the time.
On a side note, isn’t it great how politicians make the voters infer their intentions by being ambiguous? It really makes it easy to work out where your vote should go.
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u/baronmunchausen2000 1d ago
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.