Probably the right decision, I think, if very late. Will be interesting to see how the Democrats will go about this now. Kamala Harris seems like an obvious replacement, but is she really popular enough? Might be because I’m European, but she was never on the news for anything here and I know next to nothing about her.
This is just a side effect of being VP. VPs never get thought about much because they only have one real job and it only ever has to get done once in a while.
Once she’s the nominee she’ll gain popularity. Not only that but just having a chance at being the first woman president (and not being a widely-unliked, out-of-touch outgrowth from a political dynasty) is a big boost among independents.
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.
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
Pretty much post Roe v Wade she’s been out at the very forefront on the abortion debate because Biden being a catholic and male was about the worst possible person to put on this, vs Harris’s main job was to show the White House’s position on it.
Oh, not been in the news… right. Same news that’ll talk Biden’s age all day, not Trump’s age or his lies.
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.
Probably the right decision, I think, if very late. Will be interesting to see how the Democrats will go about this now. Kamala Harris seems like an obvious replacement, but is she really popular enough? Might be because I’m European, but she was never on the news for anything here and I know next to nothing about her.
Less popular than Biden…
This is just a side effect of being VP. VPs never get thought about much because they only have one real job and it only ever has to get done once in a while.
Once she’s the nominee she’ll gain popularity. Not only that but just having a chance at being the first woman president (and not being a widely-unliked, out-of-touch outgrowth from a political dynasty) is a big boost among independents.
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.
What primaries? They were won by Biden because it wasn’t contested.
excuse me he was contested; did you not hear about… uh… what was his name again?
Looks like that just happened.
Womp womp
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
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.
Pretty much post Roe v Wade she’s been out at the very forefront on the abortion debate because Biden being a catholic and male was about the worst possible person to put on this, vs Harris’s main job was to show the White House’s position on it.
Oh, not been in the news… right. Same news that’ll talk Biden’s age all day, not Trump’s age or his lies.
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.
I only know her only from the laugh of misspoken word.
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.