- Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
- Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
- Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
Oh did your sure thing evaporate now that you’re not running against a dementia patient?
Calling it now.
They’ll say it’s a conspiracy and Biden is running things behind the scenes as head of the deep state, Kamala is just a puppet
He’s gonna be the forever bogeyman.
Why would you come with a campaign tweaked against a specific opponent and not with a program that is the best for the majority of the citizen? Politics is really stupid especially in 2024!
Here I was thinking it was a mistake for the Dems to have pushed Biden this far into the year.
It was certainly not on purpose, but it became a trap for the Reps. They played the Ad hominem card hard and it’s blowing up on their face. And it doesn’t help most of their attacks on Biden can now only be directed toward Trump.
Yep. It’s no longer about the policies or what we can do to improve the country and protect it.
It’s all about framing and mudslinging and nothing more. Just look at the absolute insane level of astroturfing and bot spam over the last few days throwing absolutely everything at the wall to discredit and drum up hate against Harris.
All it is is a campaign to rile up right wingers to hate someone else. It’s literally nothing more than this, there’s no actual value to any of it it is the opposite of valuable to this country.
You guys realize that Biden waited until after the RNC to announce this right? He’s making this as hard as possible for them to pivot. You had hundreds of people in the same city, building strategies for their campaign. He had made sure that Kamala would have the delegates secured to ensure there would be no in-fighting for the next candidate. They did little to stop the media in going down the rabbit hole of the all-consuming news that he should drop out. They used it for their advantage to create a positive whirl wind around Kamala. Truly brilliant.
I believe it was a mistake to pull out this late in the game and think its probably giving Trump the win but seeing how mad republicans get is almost worth it.
I believe it was a mistake to pull out this late in the game and think its probably giving Trump the win
Kamala polls better than Biden in match-ups against trump among every age group except boomers whose kids are trying to get them to surrender their car-keys.
That said, I expect it’s all rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. Turn out among dem voters will probably be lower than in 2020 because that’s what happens when instead of doing what your voters want, you end covid protections, facilitate a genocide, and beat them up for protesting that genocide.
I truly admire your spirit in trying to spin this as a bad thing, but come on man. You don’t even sound like you believe it.
Nice thought exercise but in reality an old man got COVID and was finally convinced that he was a losing gambit.
That’s not what happened. He had a run of bad luck over a couple of weeks, including getting covid, and then some major donors said they would withdraw support.
I mean he still gets the credit for doing the right thing. He could’ve hung in there until the bitter end… but it’s always about the money.
At the time it was frustrating, but in hindsight this was all clearly orchestrated. A brilliant move by the Democrats and an incredible act of patriotism by President Biden. His legacy is secured in perpetuity.
Do they think the dems didn’t spend a bunch promoting Biden?
The nice thing about spending money in support of a candidate is that if that candidate withdraws and chooses to back another candidate then most of that campaign money spent is still a net positive.
Whereas, the GOP’s entire attack strategy almost certainly focused on just Biden and not a whole lot of policy attacks. With Biden out, that money may as well be a pile of cash they lit on fire. They’ve also spent quite a bit on content they haven’t released yet that is no longer relevant to this election.
