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Just now, mdmost said:

Yep. She can say "we tried to put forth a bi-partisan border bill and you instructed your people to block it even though they all wanted to vote for it". 

I'm sorry I'm not going to doom and gloom on this. We were heading for ruin with Biden in the race. Now, you have a new ballgame and a puncher's chance of winning if you can create a good enough message to resonate with all the dipshits out there who want to sit it out. Kamala appeals to 2 demographics that we need to win this: African Americans and women. Maybe they don't like her but you watch as she gets attacked by the right what it will do. She can easily say, you know what a black job is in America? Being President. She can say, they like to say I am a DEI candidate. Let me show you my credentials and you put that against Donald Trump's. 


trump is on video gloating about killing the border deal because it didn’t help him

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Helobious said:

2 years too late. No way trump doesn’t cakewalk now.

Phew. Now that you've posted this take I feel better about Democratic prospects than I have this entire election cycle.

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

And we know what the GOP will do. Try to sue, take the focus off their extremely old candidate in massive cognitive decline with an extreme agenda, etc

Its time to focus on the Dems for now


there’s a Dem and R thread 

this is to discuss both sides 

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Posted
27 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Any big money donors who don’t immediately come out in support of Kamala should get drone strikes.

So how easily is the existing war chest, which I understand is in the neighborhood of $300 mill, transferred to a new candidate?

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12 minutes ago, troph said:

I think you save Pete for POTUS later. I think he’s going to get the nod eventually and thankfully he’s quite young for politics.

This seems to be the right approach. Run Kamala now, let her lose, deal with two years of Trump and then two years of lame duck Trump when no one will want to work with him, and run someone strong in 2028 who will take advantage of people being sick of Trump again. 

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I don't even understand why Republicans would want Biden to resign.  Right now he's a lame duck.  If he resigns and Harris takes over, there is a not-tiny chance she'll win the Oval Office in November.  That's a completely different political dynamic.  Plus, she's running as POTUS, not Veep.

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Just now, Sbbruin said:

So how easily is the existing war chest, which I understand is in the neighborhood of $300 mill, transferred to a new candidate?

She should inherit it all because her name is on it. Anyone else, they’d have to refund everything and have them re-donate it to them

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Posted
32 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

If it's Harris, there cannot be enough debates before election day. She will crush him in every debate. She should demand allowing for interruptions and fact checking and just go to town on him letting him make a fool of himself.

That should be the plan no matter who it is. The only person that couldn’t make Trump show his ass was Biden because he just couldn’t keep up with him. No matter who it is they just need to keep hammering Trump on all of his failings. After every rambling response, emphasize how much of a complete verbal diarrhea every answer Trump gives is. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, yoladu said:

he is not incapable of the duties of the presidency, just not capable to run an effective campaign. two very different things.

Yes, because name recall, spontaneous critical thinking and clear communication are something no leader truly needs basically ever.

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Posted
Just now, Sbbruin said:

So how easily is the existing war chest, which I understand is in the neighborhood of $300 mill, transferred to a new candidate?

It can transfer to Harris, since she was already on the ticket.  It could not transfer to an entirely new ticket.

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CNN: KH team was whipping behind the scenes with delegates, but at no point were trying to push Joe out 

Obviously Biden isn’t going to address the nation tonight because he’s got to stay up for House of the Dragons

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Posted
4 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Yep. She can say "we tried to put forth a bi-partisan border bill and you instructed your people to block it even though they all wanted to vote for it". 

 

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I don't even understand why Republicans would want Biden to resign.  Right now he's a lame duck.  If he resigns and Harris takes over, there is a not-tiny chance she'll win the Oval Office in November.  That's a completely different political dynamic.  Plus, she's running as POTUS, not Veep.

Maybe because if Kamala is the President she'll have a real day job which could impact her ability to campaign full time, whereas everyone knows the VP doesn't have many obligations.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


this is the presidential election thread. Both sides have been planning for this …

I’ve not really seen evidence of that until today 

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Posted
19 minutes ago, immamac said:

Yeah I do. I think the gay military veteran who had an extremely successful private sector career and one of the best performing cabinet positions in the last few decades should be front and center. 

He started off rough cuz he took pat leave almost immediately, but since has been incredibly effective and successful. He's the most dangerous kind of person, he's COMPETENT. 

Extremely successful private sector career? Didn’t he spend like 2.5 years a McKinsey before jumping ship to the public sector? Not that I disagree with your overall point. He needs to be a heavy hitter on the campaign trail.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, C-Man said:

A hard-core Dem friend suggested a wild idea for VP with Kamala — Adam Kinzinger. Won’t happen but that would be something. I actually like him.

I can fap to that.  

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Posted (edited)

Boy, who could have predicted that?  Oh, me?

Greg Abbott:  

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Joe Biden has now endorsed and fully supports his “Borders Czar” Kamala Harris to be the Democrat candidate for president.

 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

 

Bingo. And also a massive indictment of the American electorate, which votes for style over substance. 

And the basis for my ragey post the other day. The possible administrations the next 4 years in rank order: Biden/harris, Harris/?? and then dead last not effective awful Trump/Vance.  It’s antithetical to me to voluntarily reject the best for the second best but it’s what we had to do.

Posted (edited)
20 minutes ago, yoladu said:

he is not incapable of the duties of the presidency, just not capable to run an effective campaign. two very different things.

Who said he was incapable of running? 
 

Edit I meant to quote the Turley tweet sorry

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The presidential election has everthing:

Attempted assassination, incumbent quitting, challenger trying to pull a Grover  Cleveland, black woman nominee, and a wide open party  convention for vp.

All we need are another pandemic and some riots and we can check all the boxes.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Extremely successful private sector career? Didn’t he spend like 2.5 years a McKinsey before jumping ship to the public sector? Not that I disagree with your overall point. He needs to be a heavy hitter on the campaign trail.

Yeah it’s like the lawyers that work at a big firm for 2 years then punt but lean on that experience. Man you’re barely above a typist and note taker at year two at the best consulting and law firms, etc.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Jiggy-Z said:

The presidential election has everthing:

Attempted assassination, incumbent quitting, challenger trying to pull a Grover  Cleveland, black woman nominee, and a wide open party  convention for vp.

All we need are another pandemic and some riots and we can check all the boxes.

Bill Hader Snl GIF

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Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Mark Warner and Jamal Bowman already line up behind Harris

Everyone needs to within the week. And others in contention need to decline. 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Boy, who could have predicted that?  Oh, me?

Greg Abbott:  

 

Boy, the Governor of a state with really shitty infrastructure who abandons his state in a time of need has the lack of working balls to criticize someone else. 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

The presidential election has everthing:

Attempted assassination, incumbent quitting, challenger trying to pull a Grover  Cleveland, black woman nominee, and a wide open party  convention for vp.

All we need are another pandemic and some riots and we can check all the boxes.

Convention is in Chicago. Somebody dig up Norman Mailer, use a revival spell, and let’s do this thing!!

gene wilder frankenstein GIF by foxhorror

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Posted
45 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Countdown to full on racism from the Republicans.

You can be damn sure those mfers will do their best to Swift Boat her but that's a minefield for them to navigate when the target is a black woman. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, troph said:

Everyone needs to within the week. And others in contention need to decline. 

They will. This won't be nearly as chaotic as people think. No one who wants a legitimate shot in 2028 (assuming we get that) will put their name in right now. 

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Posted
Just now, Gourmand said:

You can be damn sure those mfers will do their best to Swift Boat her but that's a minefield for them to navigate when the target is a black woman. 

She's not facing the incumbent. Kerry was easy to dispatch. She also needs to kill off her dumb catchphrase. It's not as bad as "Help Is ON THE WAY" but still. 

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Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

They will

Seriously though: there need to be a series of Sherman-esque statements from Whitmer, Newsom, et al in the next 24 hours.

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