Unlike in Trump’s first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done, per the NBC News poll.
Kamala dropped the ball with the presidential campaign. She had no opinion on any issue that majority of voters really cared about. No wonder the entire democratic party gets backlash
You don’t think it’s the other way around? You don’t think it was more her pushing to be their candidate than Biden pushing her? Cuz I don’t believe for a second Biden pushed her into that. That was always her ambition.
Of course it was her ambition. But he went full senile during the campaign and then sat on it for another month. Then after he withdrew, his campaign advisors continued to fuck with her campaign. I don’t think she would have been the best candidate out of a primary but in that situation she was the best chance for another democratic presidency.
I have a very different read on the situation. I think what you saw with a split between Harris and Biden was the split in the Democratic Party. Harris and the people supporting her very much seemed like the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. They basically ran the same campaign she did. They appealed as hard as they could to conservatives. They cozied up heavily to billionaire Tech donors. They tried to push Progressive Politics As far aside as humanly possible. They were against people like Lena Khan. On the other hand I think the people surrounding Biden if not so much him himself, were the more Progressive wing of the party. A lot of the mechanisms put in by Biden’s agreements with Bernie Sanders were that part of the party that was forced out by Harris.
Edit: Also I would point out there was plenty of time to run a primary. That fiction that there wasn’t enough time is just what the party said so they could put their hand chosen candidate in.
Kamala dropped the ball with the presidential campaign. She had no opinion on any issue that majority of voters really cared about. No wonder the entire democratic party gets backlash
She should have never been the candidate. Biden put her in an unwinnable position. The old geezer’s ego cost America it’s democracy.
You don’t think it’s the other way around? You don’t think it was more her pushing to be their candidate than Biden pushing her? Cuz I don’t believe for a second Biden pushed her into that. That was always her ambition.
Of course it was her ambition. But he went full senile during the campaign and then sat on it for another month. Then after he withdrew, his campaign advisors continued to fuck with her campaign. I don’t think she would have been the best candidate out of a primary but in that situation she was the best chance for another democratic presidency.
By him leaving it so late, there was really no other practical option. That’s 100% on Biden and the milquetoast establishment dems around him.
I have a very different read on the situation. I think what you saw with a split between Harris and Biden was the split in the Democratic Party. Harris and the people supporting her very much seemed like the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. They basically ran the same campaign she did. They appealed as hard as they could to conservatives. They cozied up heavily to billionaire Tech donors. They tried to push Progressive Politics As far aside as humanly possible. They were against people like Lena Khan. On the other hand I think the people surrounding Biden if not so much him himself, were the more Progressive wing of the party. A lot of the mechanisms put in by Biden’s agreements with Bernie Sanders were that part of the party that was forced out by Harris.
Edit: Also I would point out there was plenty of time to run a primary. That fiction that there wasn’t enough time is just what the party said so they could put their hand chosen candidate in.
Harris didn’t, at least not alone; 2024 was a party platform problem.