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Anonymous
She’s had the past 3.5 years to build support and she hasn’t performed, at all. The Presidency is not owed to anyone. She certainly has no rights to it, as you seem to think. If she were more popular, she would the Democratic candidate right now. Her poor performance as VP - along with the fundraising rules that dictates that she will almost certainly remain on the ticket regardless of what happens to Biden - have created a hell of a mess. |
Anonymous
Jonny Kim is exactly the person that America needs at the moment. He’s done a lot of amazing things in his career, but he’s one of the only people in the country that can embody the ideals that it is supposed to stand for. |
Anonymous
| If Biden had chosen Klobuchar or Whitmer in 2020 they would have already replaced him. The VP should be seen as the presumptive replacement in this type of situation. The Dems are in a tough spot now but bypassing Kamala could be extremely messy. |
Anonymous
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Regardless of who ends up running for POTUS we need Barrack Obama to be their VP.
This will be the best way to defeat Trump. |
Anonymous
not allowed |
Anonymous
You could at least spell his first name right. |
Anonymous
Forbidden by the 12th Amendment. |
Anonymous
Thank God. |
Anonymous
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This entire thread is just fantasy politics have you stopped to think the legal ramifications? OK let’s just assume we get someone else to run instead of Joe Biden. Whether it’s Kamala, who’s the only one who could tap into the funding or someone else, IF they were to win, you’ll get someone to bring a lawsuit that person was “illegitimately elected“ because they were not in the primary. SCOTUS will intervene and they will crown Trump king. And before you say “we can elect who we want” it doesn’t matter. The 6 MAGA justices on SCOTUS have changed the rules.
Nobody here is thinking rationally. If everyone would just put the same amount of energy that they’re putting into this “but her emails” charade we could elect a Democratic president. Remember in 2020 we all said we would elect can of tomato soup over Trump? Well that still holds! We are not voting for a candidate, we are voting for which direction we want our country to go. Democracy or Dictatorship. |
Anonymous
The Democratic Party is made up of 40% women and 60% POC. The party elected her as VP on the ticket. She's the sitting VP. The party won't bypass her, nor should it. We're not talking about the GOP that's homogeneous with white men and their wives who will gladly vote for a convicted felon. |
Anonymous
Go and read the 12th Amendment again. It does not say what you think it says. And certainly does not forbid Obama from serving as VP or taking over after the election. |
Anonymous
The party elected her? No. Biden selected her. And the only qualification that matters at the moment is whether she has the best chance among feasible alternatives to beat Trump. That is a completely open question. The notion that she deserves to be the candidate because of the color of her skin, shape of her genitalia, or because she is next in line is silly and self-defeating for almost any Democrat. |
Anonymous
You seem to forget that she ran in the primary and while she lost to Joe, she still came out ahead of a number of other Dem challengers. |
Anonymous
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Everyone understand Biden will lose badly to Trump under the circumstances. He is clearly unfit to be president for another four years given his health issues. The simplest thing to do would be for Biden to resign from the presidency immediately, which would allow Kamala Harris to become president now. She would then presumably get all of Biden's delegates for the nomination, not to mention the entire very expensive infrastructure to continue to run an effective campaign through November. And most importantly, she would be regarded as the legitimate Democratic nominee.
The problem is there is no chance Biden resigns before January and the end of his term. And the second problem is that Kamala Harris is also likely to lose to Trump in the general election. She will not win the battleground states. So Democrats have a big problem. Even if Biden declares he is withdrawing from contention for the nomination, I do not foresee any circumstances where the democratic coalition unites around a brand new candidate picked by delegates at a three day convention. I think Beshear or Pritzker would win the general easily, but there is no chance progressives are going to accept a white man. And forget about Newsom. A slick Californian who was married to one of the Trump wives is not winning. There are no women POC presently besides Harris that currently have the national stature to run a national campaign in three months. Michelle Obama, alas, will not run, though she would win in a landslide. I think the only option is Gretchen Whitmer. She's a woman. She's been very effective in turning Michigan into a blue state. She's telegenic. She's quick on her feet. She has a common touch and doesn't come across as an elitist. She would win a significant amount of blue collar votes. And she would win several of the battleground states and cross the line in terms of the Electoral College. But black voters may revolt against replacing Harris with a white woman. Democrats have good options to win against Trump. But I think the likelihood of the Democratic coalition - particularly Blacks and progressives - uniting around a candidate is extremely unlikely. So it's going to be a mess and the odds are extremely high that Trump wins. |
Anonymous
| Is Kamala Harris trying to push out Biden? |