I am not over Hillary's loss to Trump. I don't think I ever will be. |
Kamala Harris ran a perfectly fine campaign, and don’t forget that she held Trump to under 50% of the popular vote. But don’t kid yourself, once Biden selected her as VP, she was the heir apparent. If Dems ran anyone else besides Harris in 2024, they would have lost in a historic landslide. |
| Rahm Emanuel is running, as someone who will speak truth to power. |
At this point in 1982, the frontrunner was George Wallace. |
Yes, she may have been the heir apparent, but if Biden had dropped out earlier, and the Dems had held primaries to decide on a new presidential candidate, I doubt she would have won. But yes, I can see that as she was the VP, she was their only choice when Biden quit. |
Agree, Harris was the inevitable only choice for nominee considering the position Biden put his party in. Harris did a hell of a job in a no-win situation. The mistake was made when 77 year old was nominated in 2020. The 2020 election victory was lock for Dems. Nominating someone who wouldn't be viable in 4 years was asinine. |
This is sucH bullshat. Twenty-seven people ran in the Democratic 2020 primaries. Only two people secured any delegates, Biden and Sanders. Like twenty-five other candidates, Harris dropped out due to funding and endorsed the frontrunner, Joe Biden. People forget that Biden did not receive any delegates when he ran for POTUS in 1988 and 2008. When he ran again and won in 2020, it was only because he had been the VP to a popular POTUS. Karmala had a lot going against her when she ran again in 2024. First, she had the misfortune of entering the race with only sixty days to campaign and tell her story, whereas her opponent had been campaigning for four years. She was the VP of an unpopular POTUS, in which she refused to throw him under the bus and distance herself. She was a female in a man's world where the men of all races considered her nothing more than a sexual object. She was a Black-identified person in a world that, despite her achievements as a two-term elected District Attorney in one of the most populous cities in the country; a two-term elected State Attorney in the country's most populous state; and an elected Senator in the most populous state, she was considered nothing more than DEI because you know Black people cannot possibly be qualified. Enough with she wasn't a good candidate. She was an excellent candidate who received over 73 million votes, more votes than any presidential candidate in US history, except, of course, to the person she eventually lost to. pulled in more votes tha |
Yes. Kamala Harris did fine under the circumstances. We had an 82 year old deeply unpopular president running for reelection who fell apart in a debate with Donald Trump. It's difficult to be the incoherent imbecile compared to Trump, but the Biden team managed it. Great job, Biden campaign. Harris stepped into the breach and did as well as she could. But nothing was going to save her from the disaster of Biden. That whole nightmare is a reminder of why we need competitive primaries to get the right candidate that can win. The DNC and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the big donors need to disappear for a good long while. Let it play out and let a good candidate emerge. |
PP here. I’d be thrilled to see Dems do start impeachment and the subpoena cannon as soon as they win in the Fall. I disagree that holding a corrupt politician won’t play in swing states. If the Dem nominee can’t talk about accountability I have no interest in voting for them. I live in DC so my vote has no weight. I’m very active and work with young people who run for office in state and local races. I prefer to put my energy in a new generation how aren’t afraid to use their power. |
Only one of the many candidates in 2020 had the "right" people in their corner. It came down to two after Warren realized she was wasting her time running against the establishment. One of the remaining two is a progressive populist speaking truth to politics with an ambition to close the wealth divide and the other is a 50 year politician with well established relationships with the billionaire mega-donors who control our political system. Who do you think wins? Biden, and here we are. Reduce the influence of money in politics or else expect more of the same. |
PP here. As much as I admire her accomplishments and qualifications that you have listed, I still didn't think she was a good candidate to run for president. Zero charisma and never giving a straight answer to a question comes to mind whenever I see her being interviewed. As for her being black and being considered DEI, I'm black too. |
agree!!! |
I agree. Unfortunately, she is not good with interviews. And these days you have to be. |
Pretty sure her loss had much more to do with her running for president while at the same time being the VP of one of our most unpopular presidents ever. Any suggestion of that not being the primary factor is a silly waste of time. |
You forgot that the guy who won was the only one who during the primary was polling consistently ahead of Trump in the general. |