yottabit
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Seriously it feels like I'm watching "How to Lose an Election in 10 Days"Exactly! Dems are their own worst enemies. Do you know how I know this? Because the right has been silent on this relatively speaking, that is, the people complaining about this the loudest are on the left. It’s fucking Bernie bros 2.0.
The hilarious part is pushing for Biden to get out the race without having a clear replacement candidate in mind. 4D Chess move
Any misgivings about his age or considerations about a replacement candidate should have been through backroom discussions until an agreement was reached. It's absolutely insane to me that democrats were tweeting and hopping on the news immediately after the debate tossing out that idea. All for a 2% polling drop (within the margin of error). With the ongoing media coverage it's turning into a lose-lose situation now.
It's at least half Biden's own fault, if ever there was a time to keep him locked away from the media and keep posting TikToks and other scripted shit it would have been these last four months. Instead he pushed for a live debate. Given the stakes of this election I would have traded a late Kim Jung Un or COVID-era Putin style "reports of his death are greatly exaggerated" media blackout for what ended up happening
The reason some here are arguing that it "doesn't matter" that Biden is old may be:
1) The administration is what really matters and his has been good/great
2) Kamala Harris is there ready to take over
3) The ticket has name recognition and feels "safe" to the average voter
The last one is critical because this is really another "anyone but Trump" election.
The Bernie Bros 2.0 will say he needs to step down and then in the same breath say they would vote for him though. OK, but the average voter probably isn't going to vote for a Harris/Whitmer/Buttigieg/[Insert Generic Candidate Here] ticket.
Do you guys not comprehend that a lot of people are afraid of things they are unfamiliar with, and that seeing some new name they aren't familiar with might be scary to them? Enough that they would vote for Trump because at least he is a "known" factor. Biden's superstrength is that he's a milquetoast inoffensive moderate and any of these options that "energize the base" aren't going to do that.
You'll get the turnout of the 14% of the Bernie Bros and lose 35% of the middle of the country. There's no way 4 months of campaigning is going to make up for the decades of awareness and name recognition Biden has. Realistically we'd be lucky if it's >= 3 months of campaigning seeing as how I'm sure there will be at least a month of bickering to decide the replacement. That's why Trump would love for the candidate to get swapped. This is putting aside the bias some voters will have toward some of these candidates due to their racial status, gender, or sexual orientation.
There's probably a huge swath of average voters who don't even know this "Biden old" drama is going on right now, although with the way the media is ramrodding him it feels like it's trending toward Joever. It feels like I'm just watching the democratic party blow their own leg off and hand the election over. It's completely delusional. They need to unify and get their shit together. I think it's hard to quantify how much damage has been self-inflicted now so I'm not sure what the best path forward is anymore. I still think if people unified behind Biden this could blow over before November, but it would be so easy for Trump to press the issue with attacks of "his own party asked him to drop out". It seems almost an indefensible position.