Joe Biden faces increasing pressure to quit the race, but has spent a lifetime overcoming the odds
Joe Biden faces increasing pressure to quit the race, but has spent a lifetime overcoming the odds
"Look, people don't want him to run for president, but he can win despite that."
Politics is full of people that won elections against all odds.
And more full of people who lost miserably against some odds, and lost exactly as expected. Biden's ego and denial (probably due to some close advisors) is on the verge of pulling an RBG right now, but it's going to cost much more than Roe this time.
Like... Trump. The guy with no political experience or cohesive message who seemed to do it just cause he could. We kept thinking the next big scandal was what would end his campaign but then he won and somehow had even more scandals in office. No ones arguing unconventional people can't win. But do you want a leader you want to support or one you don't. Cause right now the dividing line is we don't want trump, not we want Biden and that makes him a liability.
Much of that lifetime has been spent losing presidential bids.
This isnt the first one hes been kicked out of
This is not some Lifetime movie where "everyone counts him out, but he believes in himself"! The stakes are too high.
Joe, please do not run again. You did good things in your presidency, let that be your legacy. Not staying in the race after voters, Dem leadership, donors, etc all asked you to please step aside, and then losing to Donald Trump, who will enact Project 2025.
Its the Dem leadership and donors who are the ones dividing the party. Joe Biden is the most pro-labour president in recent memory and they want him out because he is threatening their profits.
Again with the conspiracy theories. What does him being Pro-Labour have to do with the cognitive decline we are all witnessing with our own eyes?
No, lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi want him out because he's dragging down the party. He will lose them the White House and keep them from taking back the House. Plus, y'know... Project 2025 and the possible end of our democracy.
He only got the job because democratic party leadership decided to coalesce around him in 2020.
In a panicked attempt to stop Bernie, if you recall
There were lots of good choices in 2020. Sanders was probably the most well-liked and respected, but there was Buttigieg who came out with the very first set of delegates in Indiana. Honestly, I thought Biden was the second worst candidate running for President during the primary, about a million miles ahead of fucking Bloomberg, but just when it looked like it was over for Joe, a miracle saved his entire campaign and rocketed him into the nomination.
We need another miracle like that. Without it, I don't see a path to winning again. The fence-sitters are going to plunge us back into a second Trump term and an inevitable fascist dictatorship.
If he leaves the race now he will leave office with a positive legacy as an effective one-term president who saved the country from chaos and authoritarians in its time of need. He's got a lot accomplished over the last 3.5 years and he's been a calming and rational influence.
If he stays in the race he will permanently tarnish his legacy, invariably lose the race (because the cast majority of voters have now lost confidence in his mental health), and usher in another spell of strident, dangerous ideology.
I thought the whole reason he chose a younger, more middle of the road VP was to lay the ground work for her ascension. (If he didn't think Harris was electable as President then he fucked up.) It's time for Biden to hand the reigns over to Harris and see what happens.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After some well-received speeches mixed with so-so TV interviews and a day featuring an extended news conference in which he displayed a nuanced grasp of policy but also committed a few gasp-inducing gaffes, he got COVID-19.
Meanwhile in Milwaukee, energized and united Republicans celebrated Trump’s nomination at their convention, their adoration stoked by his defiant response in the seconds after a gunman opened fire at his Pennsylvania rally in a failed attempt on his life.
He said he was looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to challenge the Republican’s claims, “while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.”
This is a man who has been through so many personal trials and rebounded from the brink, dating back to the days after he was first elected to the Senate, when his first wife and baby daughter were killed in a car wreck that seriously injured his two young boys.
So, how does Biden balance these very real concerns — about protecting the institutions he loves in a risky election where he says the bedrock of the nation is at stake, with a stubborn streak built by decades of experience that tells him to press forward through headwinds of doubt?
Associated Press Writers Zeke Miller and Calvin Woodward in Washington, Darlene Superville in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Ellen Knickmeyer in Aspen, Colorado, contributed to this report.
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The only thing Joe has going for him is that a corpse is more electable than Harris. Selecting her for VP was an awful choice.
Diversity hires won't get the same protections in the general election.
Wait, did this headline just call everyone who wants Biden to drop out odd?
If Biden is the nominee, Trump wins. It's literally that simple. I'm personally fine with that because I think Joe Biden deserves to be remembered and hated as the selfish narcissist and right-wing enabler he always has been.
Isn't the fate of democracy more important than how Biden is remembered, though?
Shhhh what's up with your thought provoking question? People might not get the message face value.
PugJesus tries every day to convince me to vote for Trump, and it’s starting to work.
After all, MAGA is all about voting for harm reduction and I know Reds are winning anyway. I might as well pass the purity test they’re going to require so I don’t get shot.
You can do it Joe! You got more votes than Obama.
still hoping for change a decade later
Democrats and Republicans have had long enough to show they can do a good job time to let someone else try
he lost me at this quote - "I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that's what this is about,"
If it's a good enough attitude for kindergartners' soccer games, it's a good enough attitude for fighting fascism.
And after he did his goodest job we can give him orange slices and a trip to pizza hut
“You sound like you’re 14” - an actual quote from a MAGA liberal I just read on another thread
Really weird how everything liberals accuse leftists of is a projection.
Really weird how the difference between fascists and liberals grows thinner and thinner by the day.