• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Whitmer, klobuchar, newsom , Warnock, pritzker, hell i’ll even take buttigieg, literally anyone on the 2020 debate stage before the center collapsed in on Joe Biden after Obama told them too.

    What campaign, he’s literally running on being better then trump and he still somehow failed at that, put anyone else on that debate stage and Trump would’ve been cooked. What is bidens personal selling point? His platform is the standard democrat party line, he’s an old white man from a solid blue state so he’s not bringing any constituencies from his identity, he’s even lost his wise elder statesman angle after that last debate. If you put any other democrat in they could not be trump just as well if not better then Biden.

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      6 months ago

      Weird, why didn’t Whitmer, klobuchar, newsom, warnock, pritzker or hell buttigieg work their names on to the ballot? Why didn’t any of them qualify for the debates instead of Biden?

      The answer to those questions is the answer to why we have Biden instead of whoever you like better. And it’s also why they couldn’t win against Trump at this time. Literally none of the people you listed have the widespread support that is needed to satisfy the gape of the fence-sitters like Biden does. It’s unfortunate but true.

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        6 months ago

        He’s the incumbent, that’s the primary reason. But look at all the presidential polls: Biden is fucked. Behind in every battleground state basically the entire time they’ve conducted the polling. Two thirds of the American public (including half of democrats) want him to step aside. Stick with Biden and we lose…and the stakes are way, way too high to lose this time.