Man, I’m so happy with the way this is going so far. I sure hope she wins the election.
Honestly, same. That was scary as hell. Then she raised 81 million dollars immediately, started beating him in the polls immediately, started listening to Bernie Sanders, and I’m stoked.
She performed terribly in the 2020 primaries and has been very quiet as Vice President. It makes sense you’d be worried. She seems to be rising to the occasion, thankfully. I hope she wins, for America’s sake!
has been very quiet as Vice President
This was my biggest concern, honestly.
I’m glad to see she’s going right in strong, Biden stepping down had me incredibly nervous.
Your candor is refreshing to see on an online forum, thank you for that.
Everyone on the democratic side, Biden fan or not, likely had known that the move to have him not run again had a lot of inherent risk of plunging the whole party into chaos. What I and others didn’t realize was that this debacle was obscuring what everybody clearly wanted to avoid, an authoritarian Trump presidency, leaving us all in despair. Having someone who could get ol’ Don’s knickers in a twist will be a great uniting force for the party and democracy lovers everywhere, and is a source of hope we were all long overdue for.
This is what I was afraid of too, all the calls for Biden to drop out but no one was talking about next steps. Now possibly, for good reason, they were already in the works behind closed doors and already had this plan. That being said, I was nervous as hell right up until all the fundraising numbers came in and the jabs started.
Better to eat crow than the shit we’d be forced to swallow in a second trump term! Forreal though, thank you for coming out and saying it.
Nobody needs to say “I told ya so” but clearly things are moving in an energetic direction, and those of us that are sane in this country should all be pleased! Keep dunking on the fascists and speaking the obvious truth to these morons!
Same, I was mostly worried about doing it so close to the election, but Kamela is knocking it out of the park so far
from Vice President Kamala Harris’s rapid response team.
Love to see it lol, she knows what she’s doing
Yep, same position from me. I was wrong. Kamala is looking great. I’m still really fearful and there’s an awful lot of misogyny and racism to overcome yet, but she needs Democrats to turn up and vote and independents to switch to her in swing states and that’s how she’s can get it. The racists and misogynists weren’t ever going to vote Democratic anyway, Trump is their guy through and through.
Honesly one reason kamala is more acceptable to me after biden is she has been part of the administration that put out such a great term and I think one reason it was great was from lessons biden learned from being obama’s vp. I don’t view it as eating crow because I was not zealotly against his stepdown just basically against it. Whats done is done and move ahead. Don’t pick my gov for vp though as we need him in the state and he is to good and im scared to gamble on not getting someone as good to replace him.
Biden had a job to do. Stop the boat from rocking. And he did a pretty damn good job of it. I wish he had been able to “job done” and step aside so the Dems could have had real primaries. But wishes ain’t nothing. This isn’t the worst result of that target fixation.
This sudden move has created such a surge in interest that the results may turn out better than if a normal primary happened. (As far as not watching a fascist dismantle our government)
Can I borrow some of that crow? I was CERTAIN that despite his obvious issues and steadfast refusal to even address them, that Biden stepping out of the race would be the death knell for the US.
Yet here we are and I feel HOPE for the first time in a long time. Kamala feels like she’ll be more than just a gatekeeper against fascism in the short term. I’m still nervous because… politicians are still politicians. But her record has been almost overwhelmingly good, even saying back to her time as AG of California.
I hope Republicans get absolutely crushed to the point that it becomes clear catering to the extremists and conspiracy theorists is not tenable. Then they have 4 years to try to rebuild from the ashes and try to present a reasonable platform instead of something insane.
I hope they are crushed, learn nothing and double down on it by running with Trump again, this time fully campaigning from prison.
I prefer the Republicans offer a reasonable alternative so that Democrats can actually be held accountable. Currently Democrats can engage in insider trading, pass laws that help their stocks, continue to give weapons to war criminals, and you still have to come out in droves to vote for them or the country becomes a Dictatorship.
If Republicans are forced to rebuild and offer someone that isn’t going to run the country and everyone’s freedoms into the ground, (or better yet completely crash and burn allowing an actual leftist party the chance to be the 2nd party) then Democrats can actually be held accountable if they pass shitty laws.
I think the party would destroy itself long before they become introspective enough to straighten their shit out.
This isn’t just a political party we’re talking about, it’s essentially a cult. Maybe not every Trump voter is in that deep, but enough are to cause a serious schism in the party.
I just hope that this time, the allegedly anti-Trump Republicans have the balls (or lady-nuts) to actually say/do something rather than falling in line and kissing the ring.
Unless we’re still talking Russian kompromat… If that’s the case, whatever they have on these people must be truly horrific.
Who fits that description that they would have even considered nominating?
I agree in general about nominating someone awful, though.
And I’m also happy to see that not only is she doing much better so far than I thought but all the energy she seems to have brought and seeing people get amped up. Haven’t seen that for a very long time.
I guess you didn’t see the article about her statement regarding Israel/Palestine.
Already got the “totally a progressive who wouldn’t vote for Biden because they just learned Palestine exists” concern trolls to make sure everyone knows that she lost their support already 🙄
What could go wrong now? The left is notorious for abandoning its leaders for the smallest mistakes.
Could it happen?
Looks at Clinton… Looks at JFK… Looks at Jimmy Carter…
What the fuck are you even talking about? I can think of a lot of small mistakes that could have ruined any of the examples I provided but they are all LEFT heroes.
I’m sorry you are offended and agitated for some reason, I have no idea why. There is even a saying that the far right is the leftist second biggest enemy, right after another leftist they only share 95% of opinions with.
Urgh, articles about tweets.
“So think of it: They get me to that position, and then their campaign says, ‘I’m the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon.’ That’s their campaign,” Trump said. “I don’t think people are going to buy it.”
“We approve this message”
That’s it. Don’t reward a newssite for this shit.
I’d rather more people rewarded the news site for it then rewarding twitter by going there directly
Eh, it was pretty funny though. And it’s a complete character change from Biden’s campaign.
They didn’t seem too successful in the news cycle. I still think it would be worth a try if Harris only referred to Trump as “the convicted pedophile”. Like, 1-up the orange Mussolini at his own stupid tactics.
Amazing. I respect Joe Biden and think he had a pretty good term overall, but stuff like this shows just what’s been lacking.
On a related note, please let Trump be dumb enough to accept a debate with Kamala.
He comes from the era when politicians were civil to each other even if they vehemently disagreed. Well before Newt Gingrich started characterizing Democrats as evil.
Plus Harris is from California and we have a pretty good vicious streak on a cultural level. Its just not really highlighted cause it usually manifests in weird or quiet ways. A good example is that in my area quite a few people became anti-anti-gay marriage because the Mormons bussed in folks from out of state for some rally which was pro prop 8(?). The insult came about because fuck folks who dont even live in California affecting our internal politics, Californian pseudo nationalism at its finest.
Preach. Having someone call Trump on his bullshit and is so god damn refreshing. Biden just wanted to brag about his record. He did a lot, that’s great, but the campaign needs to highlight what Trump’s policies are and what is at stake.
It’s so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.
But the Democrats have to play by the current rules. Taking the moral high ground on the campaign trail was not going to get them elected. One can argue that the moral obligation is not to let Trump and his cronies win so that more reasonable policies can be put in place.
It’s so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.
'Twas always thus.
When we first got cable TV and access to US channels, I was shocked that US campaigns were almost entirely “my opponent is a crook, so vote for me” attack ads. At the time, Canadian politics was still biased towards making promises (that the politicians never kept).
That was 1981.
Honestly, I’d be just as fine with him running with his tail between his legs. Tells you all you need to know either way.
It’s obvious, she is the better candidate. And most Americans are aware of it to. I just hope, they go to the pols when the time comes.
The problem is getting voters in swing states who don’t like Trump to the polls. If all of them voted, he’d be utterly destroyed.
They just need this team to keep hitting the Trump campaign quickly all day, everyday. He pretty much can’t stop embarrassing himself.
Agreed. If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that politicians need to have a stronger digital presence to compete. It doesn’t matter that you’re a better person with better policies if your opponent is all over the Internet lying and trash talking about you. Responding only via press releases is too late in the cycle to correct misinformation. That needs to be nipped in the bud immediately. Harris’s team needs to refute his lies the same day he posts them, ideally the same hour.
