The timing sucked, you’re right about that. But they weren’t wrong to pressure Biden to not run again. Biden had zero business running again. The man was 81 years old, and very much in cognitive decline. The only reason he got as far as he did in the process was because of wishful thinking on everybody’s part. At that point, it was a bit of a Sophie’s choice; they could either throw their weight behind him, hoping beyond hope that he could just nudge that campaign over the finish line, or they could convince him to step aside in favor of someone eminently better fit for it, which meant throwing away the results of the primary.
Convincing him to step down was the right choice. I don’t know if you’re just misremembering things or what, but the polling was not good for Biden around that point. Trump looked like a shoe-in. While he wasn’t guaranteed to lose, he definitely had a worse chance of winning than Harris did. Here’s the national polling chart from that time; Biden dropped out July 21st. Do you see how the blue line went up and the red line went down after that?
Trump won, and that really fucking sucks. But saying that the Democrats fucked up and that Biden would have won is just pure fantasy. I get it; I don’t want this piece of shit to be president either, and it makes me furious every day that he is. In situations like this, it’s natural to want to throw some blame around. But blaming the Democrats for making the right choice just ain’t it.
Oh yeah totally. You can tell they were right to do that on account of how they went on to win the next election.
The right time to do what they did with Harris was the day after she was sworn in, not a couple of months before the election.
That plus a federal prosecutor who declined to do his job damned our country, and here we are.
The timing sucked, you’re right about that. But they weren’t wrong to pressure Biden to not run again. Biden had zero business running again. The man was 81 years old, and very much in cognitive decline. The only reason he got as far as he did in the process was because of wishful thinking on everybody’s part. At that point, it was a bit of a Sophie’s choice; they could either throw their weight behind him, hoping beyond hope that he could just nudge that campaign over the finish line, or they could convince him to step aside in favor of someone eminently better fit for it, which meant throwing away the results of the primary.
Convincing him to step down was the right choice. I don’t know if you’re just misremembering things or what, but the polling was not good for Biden around that point. Trump looked like a shoe-in. While he wasn’t guaranteed to lose, he definitely had a worse chance of winning than Harris did. Here’s the national polling chart from that time; Biden dropped out July 21st. Do you see how the blue line went up and the red line went down after that?
Trump won, and that really fucking sucks. But saying that the Democrats fucked up and that Biden would have won is just pure fantasy. I get it; I don’t want this piece of shit to be president either, and it makes me furious every day that he is. In situations like this, it’s natural to want to throw some blame around. But blaming the Democrats for making the right choice just ain’t it.
The man has stage 4 cancer, regardless of the election outcome it was the right thing for Biden to step down.
His running shows a massive error in judgement.