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My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump

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  • This was also left out of the discussion with Palestinian voters in Michigan at the peak of the blowback for Biden's support of Israel a few months ago.

    • House leaves town until September with little to show voters

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  • The most unproductive House in decades. I'm old enough to remember when government shutdowns and legislative inaction were considered political suicide. Many of these idiots survived their primaries already, and I can't imagine them being massively swept out even in the best-case scenario.

    • Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

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    • AOC says many who want Joe Biden off ticket also want to remove Kamala

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  • I'm not exactly excited about Harris, but putting a former prosecutor in office at least makes me think she couldn't possibly put in a worse AG than Garland, at a time when we desperately need a firebrand in the position.

    Plenty of opportunity to be proven wrong though 🙄

    • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns anti-Biden Democrats about what comes next if they succeed

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  • Same. It's the most out-of-step I've ever been with her and Bernie, a bit jarring for me. I mean, I get it, it's free political capital for progressives to voice support here. But still, as soon as the party started having this conversation through the media, Biden's candidacy became unviable.

    Could be that they are doing this to keep them from dumping Harris too, which might be the necessary compromise for the party in the end.

    • Biden feels angry and betrayed by top Dems as family discusses ‘possible’ plan to drop out

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  • And now we get to have the conversation as a nation. Maybe it will give some people courage at a difficult time and save some lives on the road.

    • Biden pushes party unity as he resists calls to step aside, says he'll return to campaign next week

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  • As someone that's mostly been an outsider, this playing out has given me more faith in the Democratic Party than I've ever had. For as long as I can remember, they've been the feckless, controlled opposition party that might occasionally throw some rights and economic opportunity my way by accident. When they lose a presidential election, it's always "aw, shucks, we'll get 'em next time."

    This isn't that. This is the party publicly airing no confidence in their president in July in an election year. This is an emergency and they've broken the glass because there's a real threat to the country.

    The glass can't be unbroken at this point. If somehow Biden still became the nominee, all Trump's campaign has to do is point out how his party doesn't even believe he should be president again. The senior party officials knew that going in, and it's why they must continue to mount private, public, and donor pressure on Biden until he gives it up.