They are going to have to figure something out. Trump has large leads in the poll of all swing states. Trump is up by 6% nationally. 73% of registered democrats think Joe Biden is too old. Yet, with all of that, Joe Biden will win the election because of the changes made to the system. No GOP candidate can win a national election. If Joe Biden stays in, he will win even though his opponent has a 6% lead in the polls, and people will start asking questions.
Because so many people who haven't voted at high rates historically are now included in our constitutional republic's democratic process and they aren't typically GOP voters. That's because until recently the GOP has had really good success suppressing their votes.
Because I've seen the system in action. The "emergency" changes in 2020 many states made to their voting systems using the pandemic as the claimed motivation were modeled on California Assembly Bill No. 1921 and California Voter’s Choice Act, both passed into law in 2016. In the very next election, in 2018, Orange County lost every single seat to Democrats. Orange County leans super-right and the republican incumbents were leading in the polls on the day of the election. The political landscape after Assembly Bill No. 1921 and California Voter’s Choice Act is almost unrecognizable to what was before it was put into place.
I love hearing Secretary Pete speak, he's probably the 4th best political orator (at least on the national stage) in my lifetime (behind Reagan, Clinton, and Obama), but he is such a corporatist that I stopped supporting him. It's probably likely that I would feel the same way about Newsome and Whittmer if I studied them at all.
Who will replace Biden as the new Democratic nominee?
There are several options being floated among Democrats to replace Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.www.yahoo.com
Of these choices Mayor Pete would be my first choice. 42 years old. Very intelligent. Very well spoken. His gayness might make him lose though. I would still go with him anyway.
The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Buttigieg, 42, was the breakout star of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest; he even won the Iowa caucuses. Some of his rise stemmed from his pioneering identity: If nominated, Buttigieg might have become the first openly gay president in U.S. history. But the bigger factor was his ability to craft and articulate a clear, concise, consistent message. As Biden’s transportation secretary, Buttigieg has honed his rhetorical skills while gaining valuable government experience.
My second choice would be Newsome. 56 years old. Looks the part. Charasmatic. Well spoken. His ties to california would probably hurt him too much (people hate california). I dont think he should be the choice despite the fact that I like him ok.
Newsom, 56, is the telegenic, smooth-talking governor of the most populous state in the country. In recent years, he has also fashioned himself as a national figure — the leading mouthpiece for anti-Trump, anti-MAGA liberals at a moment when, in his opinion, much of the rest of the Democratic Party has been falling short. He has debated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his GOP counterpart; he has raised money for red-state Dems; he has appeared on Fox News. If the key to beating Trump is winning the attention war, then Newsom is a step ahead of his fellow White House hopefuls.
My third choice would probably be whitmer. 52 years old. Im ready to see what a woman president could do. She has been very successful politically
She’s in charge of Michigan, perhaps the most important swing state. In the 2022 midterms — typically a tough time for members of the president’s party — Whitmer won reelection over her GOP challenger, a conservative media personality, by more than 10 percentage points, helping Democrats flip the state legislature. She then signed progressive laws on climate change, gay rights, guns and unions and positioned herself as a leading post-Roe crusader for abortion rights — while maintaining one of the highest net approval ratings of any battleground governor.
Those are the only ones I really know anything at all about besides Harris, who would be one of last choices and whom I dont like. Since I dont like her she will probably take bidens spot lol.
But I would vote for anyone over trump and biden at this point.
For those hoping for Michelle Obama this article has her as the least likely choice despite doing the best of anyone in head to head polls vs trump.
A post-debate Ipsos/Reuters poll found that the former first lady, 60, would trounce Trump 50% to 39% if the election were held today, making her the only Democrat on this list who would start the race with better-than-even odds of holding onto the Oval Office. That’s a testament to Obama’s enduring popularity — both her husband Barack’s, and her own.
Obama has no experience running for elective office. She has never been a political candidate. And more than that, she seems to despise the whole partisan process, having tried (and failed) to prevent her husband from running and subsequently “drilled into [her daughters] so early that you would be crazy to go into politics,” as Barack recently put it. The chances that Obama would sacrifice her hard-earned post-White House private life to mud wrestle with Trump are next to nil.
Sorta. The changes affect the ratio of organic to ground-game votes. The changes empower the ground-game component to the point where it determines the winner even in cases where the opponent has a higher level of support.
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More propaganda from Red. How utterly embarrassing and quite scary how people can literally make up propaganda and crazy conspiracies out of thin air and nobody ever questions them.
That’s obvious. Thats why the Axios article. Harris is the obvious choice, popular much, or not, I don’t think people will punish the Democrats for retiring Biden and backing Harris. She’s as good as any last minute candidate to help with the “don’t want Trump or Biden” mood in the country. At this point, no time for a power struggle. Put a good ticket together, with Harris at the top. But the general thought I had in mind is “whoever nominates someone different, will win the election”. Just back the VP, 2 months to campaign hard. It’s tough, but many will feel relief and not staying home on Nov. 5.
I know. A great idea, but it didn’t seem like a real world option with Biden as the presumed candidate, until it was not only the best option, it became the only option, at least the more I think of it in this dire moment!
Interesting... Have I not been pushing for 3 years that you guys should focus on Biden and his massive failures instead of insanely obsessing about Trump? Have I not been nearly beat yo death around here for suggesting Biden is the worst and most racist bigoted and down right fascist President in our history?
Newsome is as well. He is an excellent orator though. I could get behind him if it's him or Trump though.
This. She'd be the one offering the left could make that would lose soundly to Trump. Literally anyone else would be more viable.
www.forbes.com
Like when Hilary was killing trump in all the polls prior to Trump's election win.
