Trump and his supporters are slamming Biden for quitting the race and endorsing VP Kamala Harris instead, calling it a "coup" and demanding refunds.
  • Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
  • Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
  • Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Me, 22 days ago

    We’ve never had a pair of candidates this unpopular. (Maybe Trump vs Clinton)
    If the Dems had any kind of brains, they absolutely would pick someone else at the convention.
    Just not Harris; She might be the only one, less popular than Biden is.

    At this point, I guess she’s a better pick than Biden, just not by much.
    I still want an open convention, and someone else.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      3 months ago

      I think the missing factor to consider is that Biden is unpopular mostly because of the media telling absolute dogshit lies about him like that he was bad for the economy.

      Sure, he’s old. But if “elderly” was a disqualifying factor, then “insurrectionist” would be, also. I think the issue is that the media is going in the tank against the progressive, as they tend to do, and that that has the potential to swing against any genuinely decent candidate that the Democrats want to put forward. I sorta hesitate to say that a good answer to that is “okay well let’s just put forward a more corporate friendly candidate who will be ‘popular’ with the people whose perception is shaped by the media.”

      • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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        3 months ago

        But if “elderly” was a disqualifying factor, then “insurrectionist” would be, also.

        Those two things are unrelated.
        One is a crime, the other is inevitable.

        But my issue is that nearly all the Democratic elite, are more or less anti-progressive. The only real economic populist thing I know Biden did was appoint Lina Kahn as the FTC chair.

        I would love to see her as a candidate! But she chose to be born in England, taking herself out of the running.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          3 months ago

          The only real economic populist thing I know Biden did was appoint Lina Kahn as the FTC chair.

          Half a trillion dollars spent addressing climate change, huge boosts to domestics manufacturing and unions, resulting in big wage gains for the working class outpacing even historic levels of inflation, income inequality actually going down which usually doesn’t happen in the US, big hike in corporate tax by two trillion dollars to pay for all of that

          The fact that Biden wasn’t seen as a victory for working people and progressive goals in the US is a sign of how INSANELY counterfactual our media created political reality is

          • jhymesba@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Don’t forget getting Student Loans to be somewhat affordable. 5% of not just your total income, but your disposable income, accounting for basic cost of living. That actually convinced me to step away from my ongoing education and enter loan repayment. A huge deal considering how much loan debt I have…