Yes but everything is the democrats fault. Republicans electing Trump is democrats fault. And it’s democrat’s responsibility to run a better candidate. - np |
To be fair, it took a concerted effort by the GOP and Russians in the form of misinformation, recruiting Jill Stein and spending a lot of time and effort to hack the DNC and weaponize and create emails to barely - by the thinist of margins, squeak Trump into office. |
They will not. No labels apparently is stupid enough to think they can avoid the abortion issue. Probably a bunch of men in charge over there. |
I am an independent voter and I do not see Larry Hogan as a “pro-life” vote. Like Nikki Haley, he knows this is a losing issue and that there is no pathway to a national ban and will leave it alone. If I am in a booth and my options are Trump, Biden and Hogan I am going to have a very hard time not casting a vote for Hogan even though intellectually I understand that takes away from Biden. I just can’t believe this is what the Democratic Party had trotted out again. |
Intellectualize yourself to another trump term if you most but most voters will say hell no. Hold the nose and vote for the lesser of 2 evils. That is what our elections are a lot of the time. |
46% of the country is locked in on Trump no matter who Dems nominate. There is no “unicorn” candidate. In fact, if he wasn’t president right now, people would be pointing to Biden as the kind of moderate candidate Democrats *should* be nominating. |
You keep thinking that most voters will say hell no, but you’re thinking as someone firmly in the Biden camp. The only thing I have less desire for than another 4 years of Biden is Trump part 2. The fact that your hook to independents is hold your nose and vote Biden is just really not persuasive. |
From a policy standpoint sure, but are you forgetting how much of an effort it was last time to get the Democrats to not nominate Bernie Sanders, who has a zero percent chance at winning a national election? We also cannot be nominating octogenarians to be president regardless of their policies, full stop. |
IMO it is very persuasive. I am not young and I would absolutely say the majority of elections involve voting against a candidate rather than being thrilled with the democratic choice. That is just the way it is. There are exceptions like Obama. Boy do we all miss him. And for me Clinton because I am raising some girls and I was excited to have them witness our first woman leader. Ugggg. Imagine is she would have won, where this country could be now. But on we go. Trump is a such a huge repellent to many millions and rightly so. He is so bad he drives voter turnout to come out and defeat him which is unusual. |
The Dems did not nominate Bernie and they won. They understand the compromise required to win. Can't say the same for the GOP |
I don’t think they understand, they just got lucky. I have no doubt that if Biden wasn’t an incumbent we would be watching a Dem primary with some crazy-a$$ left wing candidate up against a more moderate candidate and the party would again be locked in an internal struggle over its direction. |
When people tell you who they are, believe them. Hogan has been very loud about his “pro life” stance. He’s never hid it. He passed legislation in Maryland that hampered medical schools training OBGYN students in necessary life saving care. It’s what he believes. Or it isn’t and he’s just been happy to sacrifice women’s rights for his own political ambitions. He knew Trump was awful, said as much, but claims he wrote in Ronald Regan. So he threw away his vote, because he didn’t have the courage of his convictions. Or he is a liar who lied and voted for Biden. Either way he sucks. |
+1 By Election Day 2024, Trump will say many many crazy and extreme things that will bring back all the bad memories and Biden will win pretty easily. |
He is adamantly and unabashedly pro-life. He also prioritized Maryland spending to benefit hist properties and those of his cronies. Vote accordingly. |