The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.
Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the president’s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whether Joe Biden was going to endorse Kamala Harris or not. And the question didn’t revolve around whether he wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh start going into the campaign.
So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.
TFW you get shot and it’s not even the biggest political story of the week.
I bet he’s livid. Thunder stolen. And he can’t even try to use the attempt to stir up animosity against his opponents, one of his own fired that gun.
Hahaha yes he can, the kid was obviously brainwashed by the left. Never assume facts matter to those clowns
This is getting downvoted by people who only read the first sentence, unlucky :<
He’s already trying to weasel out of the next debate. He’s scared.
Can you blame him? Kamala was a District Attorney and an Attorney General. Even a competent opponent who based their arguments on facts would be intimidated.
Trump wouldn’t stand a chance on that stage.
She should start calling him a coward before they start negotiation. He can’t stand women talking crap about him. A woman of color, he’d have a canary.
I hope that Harris (or whoever) goes WAY more on the offensive than Biden did. Honestly I think that’s where his age showed the most sharply; he was just too nice, even when he was “Dark Brandon.”
IDK, considering the MAGA crowd consider Trump lies better than facts, because everybody know by now, that facts have a liberal bias.
the fight is not for maga votes, it is for the undecided morons in the middle.
I vaguely remember her debate against Mike pence, her performance was not to impressive. The fly helped. I wonder if they will let her a bit looser on the pedo
We haven’t heard Kamala debate. She was not very popular in 2020. Sometimes she comes across as cringey and foolish. I wish people would stop acting like she should be coronated. She needs to prove herself before being the nominee. Just handing everything to her on a silver plater isn’t going to get the response Democrats are hoping for.
She’s the VP, and the President’s nomination. She’s already on the ballot, so she has access to existing campaign funds. There are no outspoken challengers, and there are eight weeks until early voting ballots are sent out.
What do you suggest instead?
What’s weird is she is relaxing. After all the chaos and bullshit and jagged geriatrics from those two guys, it’s just relaxing to see her.
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Surprised the hell out of me when I realized every time I saw her photo some tension left my shoulders. More so the moment I realized she was running. Weird outside of the context of the jagged geriatrics dance of chaos and decline of the last 8 years, within that context, not so much. I cannot be alone in that sensation. .
Don’t underestimate that impact. It’s a show stopper.
she’s also like young, comparatively, experienced, and knows what she’s doing. Which is a nice bump from the previous trump, though biden does also have experience, i’m not sure how much that matters or is even still true anymore.
Don’t withhold credit for Biden’s experience. Even his withdrawal was a shrewdly calculated political maneuver.
I enjoy these moments when the bots get disrupted and have no agenda to spread on social media.
I still find it strange that this is considered “late in the election cycle”. We need legislation limiting campaign length to something reasonable.
Free speech pretty much means you can’t stop someone from advertising for themselves or a cause just because it isn’t close to election season. I don’t disagree with you at all, but this is going to be a constitutional no go, I think.
Free speech can be limited if you have a good reason. For example, if you don’t want people to see how their food is raised, you can just ignore key constitutional freedoms…
Yup. The ag-gag laws seem to be a huge carve-out - if that can be managed, I don’t see why we don’t start limiting the election cycle, too.
Feels like you could go after it from a campaign finance angle, not that those laws are particularly restrictive as it stands.
I really don’t know. We’d have to pass it as a law and then see if it survives challenges. Better question is does either party have the political will to make it happen?
Agreed. What about an inflation adjusted campaign budget for each elected position? I believe this system is already used in some countries.
I feel like this would promote a focus on policies/platforms and encourage good faith campaigning.
They could regulate campaign donations, like when they are allowed to be made. Or maybe when those funds are allowed to be accessed. Maybe that would help.
Maybe the access. I don’t know about the donations, though. It’s already been ruled that donations are speech.
I’m not against the idea if someone can make it happen.
There is absolutely no reason why we need to run primaries so far in advance. They should all be in May or June. As far as I can tell, the only reason the schedule is like this is because some states want the influence that comes with being earlier in the process. But why should Iowa or New Hampshire always get that?
Presidential Primaries should be held over 4 or 5 consecutive weeks, with a rotating roster of which states vote in which order.
