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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social |
If Biden drops out, there are two options: (1) the incumbent Vice President, who is already on the ballot; (2) someone else. (1) Has strong arguments for being the consensus candidate. Maybe they work and Dems rally. (2) Does not. Not any of them. Guaranteed chaos, infighting, and bitterness.
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Partyglouberman
@partyglouberman.bsky.social
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The last 48 hours have taught me there is actually a lot of green space for meaningful intellectual debate here, but the debate probably needs to wrap up pretty quickly either way.
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Tom Shane
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There’d be a lot of hand-wringing and then Kamala would do one rally where she’d be buoyant and electric and everyone (except for the pundit class) would jump on board. In a month, she’ll be doing events with Taylor Swift and Cardi B and we’ll forget this ever happened.
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Jorge Caballero
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The number of "Dems in Disarray" articles that will be written will be enough to train LLMs for the foreseeable future
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Humongous Frog
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If they’re doing this, Biden needs to resign so she can run as an incumbent. And they can’t pick anyone else because you can’t run on saving democracy and also hand pick your candidate in a smoke-filled room
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JayZero
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Doing any of this would bring HRC 16' nightmare scenarios of back room deals and candidate selection process without primary voter input, & it would throw the convention into even more chaos than it will be just over the Israel/Gaza issue.
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JayZero
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They do this this shit again, the fucking Dems will never get a vote from me again.
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déjà vu
@ka7ma.bsky.social
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growing a spine is so much simpler
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Todd
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Yeah Harris is the only alternative with some legitimacy. The moment the any governor or a senator jumps in a half dozen aspiring candidates will all jump in and it will be complete chaos. We don’t have primaries to sort things out. If it’s not Biden it has to be Harris.
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@bunnyadvocate.bsky.social
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I know it's too late to change things, but would ranked choice voting resolve (2)? You should end up with a candidate that a majority are "ok" with, even if they aren't their first or second choice.
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@als8ae.bsky.social
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Everyone asking Biden to drop out wants JD Vance to be president. If Biden dies, cool. Kamala is president. If Biden is incapacitated, cool. We have an amendment for that and Kamala becomes president.
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Vince
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Honestly their chance to drop Biden happened a while back, when he announced for second term. That's when they should've put a new candidate if they really wanted Biden to back out with minimal/no bad effects
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Pilgrim
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If "Democrats" meaning Party Leadership does kick Biden out that will be a demonstration that the Ds do indeed have the same authoritarian instincts as the Rs, they just express them differently.
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Pppatticake
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Dems do not appear to be trying to win if we are being honest—this is abysmal:
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@wichitawstraw.bsky.social
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2 is third party thinking. For thousands of reasons this is a binary choice. Biden or Harris.
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