Biden vows to keep running as signs point to eroding support on Capitol Hill (apnews.com)

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

About 7 in 10 voters, and 45% of Democrats, said Biden’s physical and mental ability is a reason to vote against him, according to the CNN/SSRS poll.

And about 6 in 10 voters, including about one-quarter of Democrats, said reelecting Biden would be a risky choice for the country rather than a safe one, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. That poll found that Democrats were split on whether Biden should remain the nominee.

There's no reason to take this risk for Biden after he spent four years telling us a president can't do anything.

If he really was "the next FDR" I could see pushing for him to stay in, but I just don't see what makes Biden worth the risk.

Pretty much everything he brags about accomplishing, is stuff congress passed and he signed instead of vetoing. Lots of people can do that.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

he spent four years telling us a president can’t do anything.

Which is even more upset that the SCOTUS just ruled that the President can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want. Imagine if we had a White House with balls and not a octogenarian Sundowner.

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You've made the mistake thinking that this is about democracy and the American people, in reality it's about his ego and more than a dash of creeping dementia.

The man is living decades in the past. He thinks the GOP and Dems are still working together for the same corporate goals, he thinks hes dealing with Golda Meir's Israel, he thinks he has 50 years to deal with climate change.

Biden is just out of touch with reality and is too stubborn to listen to anyone telling him he's about to drive the family van into a crowd of pedestrians because "I've been driving for 60 years! I know what I'm doing, stop trying to influence me!"

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[-] goferking0 8 points 5 months ago

And yet they won't replace the VP either. For the most important election of our lives you'd think they'd be trying harder to win it

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

To replace the VP, you need both the House and Senate to vote for it.

Johnson is too busy judging the type of porn his son watches to put it up for a vote.

Tax breaks for billionaires? That's on the docket tommorow morning at 9 AM.

Picking a Democratic VP?

goes back to watching Unchained Vixens Part 5

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

While I’m cautiously optimistic for France in their upcoming elections this weekends due to the apparent pragmatism of the centrist parties, I admit that it’s embarrassing and infuriating to watch our one non-fascist party here in the states actively shit the bed on actually fucking doing something to stop the fascists.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Little bit of inside baseball here. One challenge is they would have to pick a new candidate prior to the convention, in order to meet the filing deadline to get listed on the Ohio ballot. It is not likely they win Ohio if people have to write them in. So they can't just go to a brokered convention and hash it out in realtime.

Secondarily, per campaign finance regulations, they cannot just dump the ticket and then transfer the campaign cash to a new slate of candidates. If Biden were to step down, they're stuck with Harris, otherwise they cannot use that money. If they somehow convince both to step aside, they have to raise all new money to finance the rest of the campaign, and the time between the convention and the actual election is not a lot of time to raise money (let alone use it wisely).

[-] immutable@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

I find it interesting that it’s always the “adults in the room” aka “the people in power” and their allies that run to the favorite news outlet and let you know “oh it’s far far too late to put anyone else in power.”

Really? I mean maybe, but also let’s not pretend like the DNC and Biden campaign and all their operatives are just neutral observers opining about the objective logistics.

In any other election year you wouldn’t have a candidate before the convention, so somehow it’s not too late in all those elections. And what exactly do we need all the time for? No one ever seems to say why it’s too late, just take it on faith that it’s too late.

If they replaced Biden it’s not like they would have to start from scratch. They have raised funds and they have staffers and campaign offices, as long as you don’t actively dismantle that election infrastructure I’m sure some enterprising intern can find the call script and strike through “Biden” and write in the new candidates name.

It’s not like they would pick a candidate with 0 name recognition, the person would have to be someone in the party they think could win. So it’s not like you need some massive lead time so people can get to know the candidate.

You toss that infrastructure to a younger candidate and what’s the actual thing they won’t be able to wrangle in time?

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It’s not too late, the convention could cause a replacement. But we lack good alternatives.

[-] alilbee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

We have like 5+ governors (Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker, Shapiro, and Bashear off the top of my head) who would all be fantastic candidates. It's not a lack of good alternatives. It's incumbent advantage and the lack of remaining time in this race. Not an easy decision to make any which way you cut it, even if I'm sure we all have a way we would like it to go.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It's like watching sheep being herded by a donkey

Trump could wish for a better rival.

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

plzStop

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Do I know what is the answer here no. There isn't some simple choice that does make sure Trump is defeated but it isn't an election of only denying Trump. Trumpism as a whole needs to be defeated, and that requires someone with backbone and morals. There will be people after this one using all the groundwork Trump has laid.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

That same arrogant hubris from Clinton fucked us over too

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