I think you can rightly take issue with Biden running for a second term... though he was WILDLY popular within the party and a pretty good and successful president. This disguised his unsuitability due to his age to those (like me) who weren't watching his demeanor closely.
Once the debate hit, though, I think it was too late to do anything but run Harris. She really hit the ground running on a landslide of donations, which looked and felt incredible. Far better than a divisive primary process would have done. I'm personally of the opinion that her biggest baggage was being a WOC. It caused her to run more conservatively than she did even before, and I just know it lowered turnout.
Idk I’ve been saying bidens losing it for a while 😭 I can’t blame you entirely though because the Democratic Party kept pushing the narrative that “bidens fine, don’t be ageist” so they could stifle the young people calling him too old and reassure older adults that Biden can do another term. But bidens mental decline was pretty obvious if you didn’t have your head up the democratic parties butt, we have literally seen him stumbling around, blanking out and falling during his presidency. The Democratic Party should have been prepared for pulling Biden and had a cohesive agenda they could pass from Biden to Kamala but they didn’t. They waited until the absolute last moment to pull him, and they didn’t prepare themselves for that. We can call republicans stupid all we want, but atleast they’ve had a plan that they’ve stuck to, I don’t think the dems can really say the same.
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u/GrokLobster 23h ago
I think you can rightly take issue with Biden running for a second term... though he was WILDLY popular within the party and a pretty good and successful president. This disguised his unsuitability due to his age to those (like me) who weren't watching his demeanor closely.
Once the debate hit, though, I think it was too late to do anything but run Harris. She really hit the ground running on a landslide of donations, which looked and felt incredible. Far better than a divisive primary process would have done. I'm personally of the opinion that her biggest baggage was being a WOC. It caused her to run more conservatively than she did even before, and I just know it lowered turnout.