The Political Thread

[Smart Marx]

I love how all the republicans said Biden wasn’t fit to be president and now they’re mad he dropped out.

Just insanity

Duh. They wanted to beat him. It was their best talking point and the polls showed it was working.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Trump and his ilk are also still coming from the talking point of 2020 being a "stolen and fraudulent" election, so of course they wanted to beat Biden badly. Now they're robbed of that and are basically on the backfoot because they don't actually have any other plan, their entire campaign was centered around Biden being old and "senile".

 

[Chris]

Same. That’s the most interesting question.

I’m wondering if she’s waiting for the official nomination.

I guess if no one is really against it she can, but if people are gonna push back she should probably go ahead and make a choice before the convention for a mini campaign

 

[Comrade Khan]

Duh. They wanted to beat him. It was their best talking point and the polls showed it was working.

Kamala could legit run off the slogan of : I am not an old white dude to pretty decent success I imagine lol

 

[Smart Marx]

Trump and his ilk are also still coming from the talking point of 2020 being a "stolen and fraudulent" election, so of course they wanted to beat Biden badly. Now they're robbed of that and are basically on the backfoot because they don't actually have any other plan, their entire campaign was centered around Biden being old and "senile".

To play devil’s advocate, Harris was also on that ticket, and they’ll probably pivot to without Biden cheating this time, we can finally win our second term.

But yeah, the biggest thing they had was Biden’s poor media performances. Without that, they’re back to square one. Trump’s stupidity is basically admitting he has nothing now that he has to focus on Harris.

 

[Chris]

Kamala could legit run off the slogan of : I am not an old white dude to pretty decent success I imagine lol

With a 3 month campaigning, I think she'll have to push "I'm not Trump" harder than usual as a main selling point

 

[Comrade Khan]

With a 3 month campaigning, I think she'll have to push "I'm not Trump" harder than usual as a main selling point

yeah gonna be some strong challenges no doubt. I do think she will have an easier time with the youth and women voters than Biden did, will have a harder time with old ppl on the fence im guessing

 

[Smart Marx]

Kamala could legit run off the slogan of : I am not an old white dude to pretty decent success I imagine lol

I think now is the time it just may. People were so sick of Biden/Trump II and it being too old white dudes we may finally get past the gender and race hurdle now that we have a fresh matchup and a fresh candidate.

A lot of people are saying she should still play it safe and pick an older (not old) white Christian dude as VP to offset the racists.

 

[Sabretooth]

I think Trump is just gonna say Harris is Biden part 2 with no ideas of her own which may work

 

[Smart Marx]

With a 3 month campaigning, I think she'll have to push "I'm not Trump" harder than usual as a main selling point

This.

This is what I’ve been saying. If you can drive that hard and be confident and competent in all her media appearances, she should do it.

But yeah, can’t get complacent. Need to hit all the swing states and potential swing states and probably a few red states that are on the bubble and go hard on this messaging.

 

[Smart Marx]

I think Trump is just gonna say Harris is Biden part 2 with no ideas of her own which may work

Biden’s policy wasn’t his biggest issue. That won’t work. He’ll need to attack her specifically.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Biden’s policy wasn’t his biggest issue. That won’t work. He’ll need to attack her specifically.

especially when the Rs currently dont really have much policy ideas beyond BIDEN IS OLD stuff. not to say the dems are visionaries either but u get what im saying.

this change might actually make a lot of ppl vote again, for better or worse. your point about the last election resonated with me when you said "it wasnt th biggest election turnout because Biden is the most popular guy ever" . ppl voted to get rid of trump. i think ppl want to vote to keep trump out but no one was excited at all about biden. i feel after some reflection its a net positive with harris because she might make ppl feel something where as joe made ppl feel nothing even if they supported the dems

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Duh. They wanted to beat him. It was their best talking point and the polls showed it was working.

Same reason the border problem won’t ever truly be fixed, if they fix it, they lose that talking point.

 

[Chris]

especially when the Rs currently dont really have much policy ideas beyond BIDEN IS OLD stuff. not to say the dems are visionaries either but u get what im saying.

this change might actually make a lot of ppl vote again, for better or worse. your point about the last election resonated with me when you said "it wasnt th biggest election turnout because Biden is the most popular guy ever" . ppl voted to get rid of trump. i think ppl want to vote to keep trump out but no one was excited at all about biden. i feel after some reflection its a net positive with harris because she might make ppl feel something where as joe made ppl feel nothing even if they supported the dems

It just should have been decided 6 months ago at least instead of right now is the biggest issue. It could easily be too late now but we'll see

 

[Smart Marx]

Same reason the border problem won’t ever truly be fixed, if they fix it, they lose that talking point.

Kinda, but I mean Trump tried really hard to. That’s like the only thing he campaigned that he wanted to address. He just wasn’t affective in getting Congress on board to fund it and when he tried to use military spending on it, the courts stopped him. And what he was able to pass, Biden cancelled when he won in 2020.