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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting to take a short walk down memory lane.....
There have been many more like these in the past year.  Amazing how the lemmings have fallen into line......

Sept., 2023
[b]Columnists call for Biden to drop Harris, pick new running mate[/b]

[quote]Several columnists have an idea on how to make President Joe Biden more electable in 2024: Drop Vice President Kamala Harris and pick a new running mate.

Yes, voters think Biden may be too old to serve another four years, according to recent polls, but three columnists believe that a stronger running mate will gain traction in the country or even in the party.

In a piece urging Biden not to run again, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested as a backup plan that Biden could replace Harris with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Ignatius says voters are sensibly focusing on Harris because of Biden’s age, while noting that Harris is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight.

“Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Ignatius writes.

Biden himself has committed to Harris as his running mate for 2024. He said last year, “She’s going to be my running mate, No. 1. And No. 2, I did put her in charge. I think she’s doing a good job.”

In a New York Magazine Intelligencer column, Eric Levitz floats several options to replace Harris including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).

“To be sure, replacing Harris with another running mate is not a great option,” Levitz writes. “It’s just that Democrats have no good ones. It is risky to switch out the first Black and female vice-president for someone else. But it is also risky to saddle an 81-year-old nominee with an exceptionally unpopular running mate who — if all goes well — will be all but guaranteed the party’s nomination in 2028.”[/quote]
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/columnists-biden-harris-new-running-mate-00115559

Jan., 2024
[b]Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President[/b]

[quote]This brings me to the matter of Biden’s vice-presidential choice. Kamala Harris, the current holder of the post, shares with Henry Wallace progressive values and a proclivity to verbal infelicities. There are no indications that she would be soft on Russia or otherwise swerve—as Donald Trump has—from mainstream American foreign-policy tenets. But neither are there indications that she has developed, over her three years in the White House, any strong, recognizable convictions on America’s role in the world, or how Washington should exercise global leadership. Equally importantly, she has struggled mightily to move the public on any aspect of policy, even those policies—such as civil rights and immigration—on which she has taken an active interest or prominent role. While Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, have leveled, and will continue to level, ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated charges against Harris, they will be amply justified in making her presence on the ticket a major campaign issue.
https://time.com/6589518/joe-biden-owes-the-country-new-vice-president/
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Feb., 2024
[b]Roosevelt fixed his serious VP mistake. Will Biden?[/b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/23/franklin-roosevelt-changed-running-mates/

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Fascinating how Harris supporters have yet to respond with anything substantive.[/quote]

Just because you don't agree with what has been said in response, doesn't mean that there isn't anything substantive in the responses.

I have said it before, I was not a Harris fan. I didn't think she was a good VP choice, and I would not have supported her candidacy for president, not because I thought there was anything wrong with her, but because I didn't think this country was ready to elect a woman president, never mind a woman of color. At this point in time, beating Trump is pretty much THE top priority, and I didn't want us to lose on a technicality - misogyny.

I am happy to report that so far, everything that has transpired has VASTLY exceeded my expectations. I didn't think Biden would step down, and that if he did, the ensuing infighting would absolutely sink not only the presidential ticket, but pretty much any close election downstream, handing the White House, the senate, and the house to Republicans. More than that, it would 100% solidify the MAGA wing's stranglehold on the GOP, and there is no recovering from that. So imagine my shock when the party that likes to shoot itself in the foot more often than not, showed incredible discipline by coalescing behind VP Harris, and even more incredibly, that the Harris team has run an extremely disciplined campaign, unmarred by missteps. I'm sure those will come at some future point in time, but for now, I'm really happy that the choices aren't between REALLY OLD Guy 1 and REALLY OLD Guy 2 who tried to end our Republic.[/quote]
Republicans are such sour grapes about having Trump and Vance as their two off putting, weirdo candidates. Lashing out is all the GOP has. [/quote]

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