Top Biden allies say he's still the best bet to win against Trump in November
The president’s allies came to his defense amid calls from some Democrats for Biden to step aside from the 2024 presidential race.
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Because he is. Even if we don't like him. Even if we think his handling of Israel is fucking disgusting. Even if we think he's too god damned old.
Trying to run someone new without any primaries now would almost assuredly leave us with a worse candidate and a splintered voting bloc.
Why? Because without primaries, it's basically in the DNC's hands to choose a new candidate, which they are totally allowed to do as a private organization. I know this because they never legally argued that they didn't put their finger on the scale for Hillary Clinton in court, they argued that as a private organization, the DNC is allowed to make its own rules and break its own rules. (The law was on their side, so they pounded the law, since the facts would have said they totally did put a finger on the scale for her.)
How many Democratic voters do you think are going to line up for a party-chosen candidate? What if they did "go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way." I think a lot of voters would be real unhappy with that.
Even if the party chose to let their delegates choose a candidate at the convention (less than two months away), it could easily turn into an absolute shitshow and also split the party vote.
Biden is who we've got and we can accept that or fuck up our chances for any semblance of democracy even more.
I guess "vote blue no matter who" only applies when you're punching left...
Always has been sadly
We've never had a pair of candidates this unpopular. (Maybe Trump vs Clinton)
If the Dems had any kind of brains, they absolutely would pick someone else at the convention.
Just not Harris; She might be the only one, less popular than Biden is.
Trump has his evangelicals, they're a done deal. His others voters are a "tear down the system" vote. People who are tired of being fucked over, no matter who's in office. They see him as the "worse" things need to get, before they can get better; And they may be right.
If the Dems picked a genuine progressive, who offered several big radical changes (that we all know the ownership class hates), they would take a lot of votes from trump. They would win.
But I doubt they'd do it.
The only thing more scary to Dems than Trump, is a genuine progressive.
The DNC picked Biden and chose not to primary him. Dispite knowing better than any of us how unwell he is. This system is absurd.
It seems a lot of people believe there is a magical bag full of candidates that can potentially win general elections, but the Dems for some reason decided not to open it...
Yes, out of hundreds of millions of people, he is the only person who can do the job. In 2028, we'll have to close the country since nobody else is capable.
In 2028 after 4 more years of Biden, what then? You really think people will want 4 more years of Democrat broken promises after 8? Trump wins this year either way. Democrats are blowing it
So if Biden died right now, the party would die with him?
Why is the candidate so important anyways? Isn't the program much more important? As a European, I don't understand what's going on in US politics. Nobody seems to care for the politics and everyone just wants the drama.
You can thank Republican control of the media and defunding education for that.
No you can thank the two-party system for that.
He mentally died years ago.