• RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Klein might as well run for president along with the pool of candidates he’s proposing as a replacement, none of this I doable in the next 5 months.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      none of this I doable in the next 5 months.

      Then they’re not truly serious about defeating Trump.

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          10 months ago

          it’s definitely a bit of a paradox, or simple “stuck” issue.

          Biden definitely doesn’t command confidence and energy as a candidate, but then any attempts to “replace” him would likely cause shockwaves of confusion/doubt in trying to quickly pick an overall agreeable person.

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    10 months ago

    I see that you liked what Ezra Klein had so say so much that you decided to post about it twice in a row.

    Which is weird, because he doesn’t seem to be saying anything new or original.

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      10 months ago

      Or read the article/listen to the podcast and understand why he’s calling for Biden to step down “as a hero”.

      If Trump winning a second term is the end of democracy as we know it, you would think the Dems would run somebody that’s an absolute political beast to defeat Trump. Biden is not that. Just look at his last 15 minute press conference and you’d see that.

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        10 months ago

        I have been watching Biden since the 70’s and I understand what he stands for. I will vote based on that, not a short presser.

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          10 months ago

          His Republican racist policies? Joe “I don’t want my kids growing up in a jungle, a racial jungle” Biden?

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    10 months ago

    “Voters believe Biden is too old for the job he seeks. He needs to persuade them otherwise, and he is failing at that task — arguably the central task of his re-election campaign.”

    “There is a ton of talent in the Democratic Party right now: Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Jared Polis, Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, Ro Khanna, Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, J.B. Pritzker — the list goes on,” he says.

    The concept may seem foreign to modern voters, he writes, but it was commonplace for presidential nominations up until the 1970s, with both Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt winning nominations in similar ways.