What I’ve read in recent weeks is that people have been donating to the “Biden-Harris campaign”, so Harris has access to all that money by default.

While I would love a stronger candidate (Whitmer, perhaps), I understand that Harris is a lot less complicated. My understanding is that she can just take the money and run (for the presidency).

Edit: Personally, I think (and thought back in 2019/2020) that Biden should have pulled the same move as James K Polk, and declared upfront that he would be a one term president. Then we could have had a competitive Democratic primary, which would have stood out against the Republican coronation.

Fucking vote

This generation is going to have PTSD every election year going forward (assuming we still have elections after November).

“Man Why does R2O keep posting this? He’s a Russian chatgpt. He just hates Biden.”

[The things progressives have said for years would happen, have happened.]

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If you imagine that, you must also imagine Biden announcing this on X. And now stop imagining because that’s actually what happened.

RIP Nitter

That was the only source, aint no way anyone writing article that fast. Ive also posted his statement through imgur.

Less popular than Biden…

That’s generally true for all VPs. Biden was rarely on the news during the Obama years, same with Pence in the Trump years. She’s not an ideal candidate, but she does have some freedom of motion that is unprecedented. She gets to own the incumbency as the VP but only partially. Time and messaging will tell if she is able to define her candidacy by the positive things the Biden administration has done and the positive things that she can do moving forward or if Republicans will succeed in tying her down with whatever negative aspects of the Biden administration they can latch onto. It will be hard for them to pitch her as some kind of puppet for Biden or the DNC seeing as they spent some much air trying to convince everyone that she was puppeteering Biden from the start. If she can get a solid VP candidate (and there is a deep bench of Democratic Senators and Governors that she could pull from) and inject some energy into this campaign (suddenly Trump is the old man in the race), I think she’s got a really strong shot. There’s an outside chance someone will attempt to contest her at the convention, but as much as my personal views may be likely to better align with a more left-leaning candidate, I think the atmosphere of hesitancy from folks calling on Biden to step down or primary ing Biden in the first place suggests that the likelihood of a strong contender appearing and damaging her candidacy is low. I know there were plenty of folks on here who thought getting Biden to step down was some effort by the elite or the Republicans to steal away the incumbency advantage from the Democrats, but I really have a hard time seeing this as anything but a positive step in the campaign to beat Trump in November

That’s a good thing.

Here (in the US), people know Clinton, Biden, but (in my experience) they don’t really know Harris. She’s a blank slate who’s suddently going to become more of a name now that she’s Trump’s opposition.

Biden wasn’t popular either. people didn’t vote for him, they voted against the other guy.

everyone hates Harris for saying weird shit, not being very charismatic, and being a prosecutor, all fair… but her Senate voting record is actually incredibly good.

She hasn’t been in the news or public in 4 years in America. I doubt she would win the nomination if she ran on her own.

One thing that is important for non-Americans to understand is that the next steps are totally up to the delegates at the Democratic National Convention, most of whom were chosen as a result of the Primaries and 99% were won by Biden’s campaign. I think that Democrats may stage some quick events, like a debate or other public forum, to show off their bench and introduce voters to their main candidates in a way that they couldn’t earlier in the year. But the ordinary voters’ role in the process is over until the General Election in November. The candidate will be chosen by delegates who were prepared to vote for Joe Biden.

If Biden endorses Harris at any point, she is the is the nominee. Things only get interesting if he declines to endorse her.

I only know her only from the laugh of misspoken word.

Not to mention just like with other things, Republicans are not open to removing the bastard cops in place, the Democrats at least contain people that want to do so. Sadly you have two choices, so pick the one that gets closest to what you want.

I hope that liberals leftists and everyone left of center realizes, now that he’s out, you absolutely have to support Kamala the Democratic nominee no fucking matter who it is at this point.