Conservatives joke that progressives just blow with the wind from one controversy to the next. But I can’t help but notice the anti-Biden “left” shifted hard from Genocide Joe to Bad debate Performance without skipping a beat or looking back.

Almost like the people stoking these fires don’t really care about left issues at all.

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Biden, the current president, is actually doing a pretty good job.

Who would you suggest take over?

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Gretchen Whitmer

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He’s doing an alright job, but it doesn’t matter what I think, or what you think, it matters what the country as a whole thinks and his approval ratings are lower then Trump’s were at the depths of covid

As for who would replace him, looks like Michelle Obama’s got the best chance but even with the others it seems, besides Kamala, they suffer more from lack of name recognition since they put more voters in the don’t know. If Biden would open the question up and allow them to “campaign” up into the convention maybe we could get a clearer sense of what people want. Maybe it is Biden but with the lack of a real primary this season and his decline in the polls we don’t know.

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When was the last time a sitting president had a primary?

Biden and Trump are sitting within 1.5% in polls right now, it’s neck and neck.

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Biden and Trump are sitting within 1.5% in polls right now, it’s neck and neck.

Those numbers are from polls taken before the debate. According to leaked internal polls, Biden is down in Pennsylvania (which is the tipping point state) by 7.3%, following what was the worst week of the campaign. Once new polls come out, we’ll get a clearer picture of how much further behind he is than he was before.

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It was 1980 , which was also the last time a democrat had an approval rating this low . Before Carter that was lbj and at least he had the good sense to not even run.

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Agreed, I’m getting pretty sick of morons on the left holding him to unreasonable standards. So what, he had a bad performance at a debate. That doesn’t mean his politics aren’t good, that doesn’t mean he didn’t do a fine job as president. He isn’t an existential threat to America like Trump is.

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Okay, we can say he’s done a fine job in aggregate and that he’s probably our only shot at beating Trump, but that does not mean his politics are good.

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Biden, the current president, is doing a milquetoast job. In fact, most of the things I hate about the current administration, like their bizarre about face on border policy and their love of genocide, have been things he’s directly worked on.

The very few precious wins this administration has achieved have been thanks to the FCC and bipartisan work done by House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. Great wins, certainly love our government not shutting down after months of gridlock, but the kinda wins any Democrat’s administration could get.

Biden’s term has been defined by him doing the bare minimum. I think it’s fair for people to think any other Democrat could step in and continue doing the bare minimum.

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I remember the last election, with the pandemic, economy and country going to absolute shit and I’m very happy that things are calm and quiet this time around.

Biden is doing a good job.

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Lowering your standards to “not causing an immediate disaster” is a pretty poor idea, especially when there’s an ongoing genocide supported by the U.S. and fascists are actively destroying our government before our eyes.

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Anyone/anything. A dog, a pile of sawdust, don’t care as long as it’s not a genocidal right-winger.

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Very vague but I asked you for a specific person you think has a chance.

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What? How is that vague? I’m saying I’m open to whoever replaces him, why is that difficult to understand? It’s an incredibly flexible position, dealers choice as long as it’s not Biden or Clinton.

Does the super low bar make it difficult for you to try and make me seem unreasonable or uncompromising? Is that what this is? It just breaks the script you had prepped or something?

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