Kamala Harris says Biden's decision to run again was "recklessness"

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The true recklessness was the Democratic party not having any plan in place for a possible Trump victory
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While she's correct, it's also true that even a comatose Biden would be a better option than Trump
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
While she's correct, it's also true that even a comatose Biden would be a better option than Trump

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What was reckless was the Biden administration not doing fucking ANYTHING to hold Trump accountable for January 6th. He should have been thrown in jail immediately for treason and seditious conspiracy and be not allowed to run for office again.
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totalnerdken posted...
No, while I did support Harris, the wreckless thing was all the cringe democrats constantly trying to get Biden out of running. Biden should've been the one to run.

Biden would have lost in a 400+ EV landslide, and Republicans would have even more of a majority in the House and Senate.
Democrats not even considering the possibility of an 80+ year old man not being up for the job of POTUS, and having backup candidates goes beyond "recklessness", and is flat-out political malpractice.

Someone needs to audit Harris's campaign. To spend over a billion dollars, only to lose every swing state and the popular vote is mind-boggling. There needs to be accountability for this level of failure.
totalnerdken posted...
No, while I did support Harris, the wreckless thing was all the cringe democrats constantly trying to get Biden out of running. Biden should've been the one to run.

Biden would have done even worse. People were NOT going to give him another chance, and Kamala not distancing herself from him enough is what hurt her.
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totalnerdken posted...
No, while I did support Harris, the wreckless thing was all the cringe democrats constantly trying to get Biden out of running. Biden should've been the one to run.

I genuinely don't understand this perspective. Biden was tanking, he was viscerally hated by half the country (for reasons I also don't get) and thought of as too old and unfit by like 75 percent of it, including most Dems. We'd be in an even worse position. Changing candidates is the only reason the House was so close. Turnout was already down with Kamala who ran a pretty good campaign for a month or two before falling off. With Biden, it would've been catastrophic.

He never should have ran again. He should have given ample time for the country to find the absolute best replacement and he should have prosecuted Trump immediately.
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It really didn't matter who ran. People had a vibe that the economy was in complete shambles and thought Trump would swoop in and revert the prices of everything back to 2019 levels.
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__aCEr__ posted...
It really didn't matter who ran. People had a vibe that the economy was in complete shambles and thought Trump would swoop in and revert the prices of everything back to 2019 levels.
Honestly, this.

Theres no way Trump wasnt going to win.
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CastletonSnob1 posted...
Democrats not even considering the possibility of an 80+ year old man not being up for the job of POTUS, and having backup candidates goes beyond "recklessness", and is flat-out political malpractice.

Someone needs to audit Harris's campaign. To spend over a billion dollars, only to lose every swing state and the popular vote is mind-boggling. There needs to be accountability for this level of failure.

The accountability is with the voters who picked a rapist, pedophile, racist, fascist, and traitor. Stop trying to pass the blame. It's the MAGAs. It's the "she needs to earn my vote" liberals. It's ignorant, terrible people.
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DoesntMatter posted...
What was reckless was the Biden administration not doing fucking ANYTHING to hold Trump accountable for January 6th. He should have been thrown in jail immediately for treason and seditious conspiracy and be not allowed to run for office again.
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totalnerdken posted...
No, while I did support Harris, the wreckless thing was all the cringe democrats constantly trying to get Biden out of running. Biden should've been the one to run.
Biden was always losing. I defended him early on, but hindsight makes clear how wrong I was.
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And she's going to repeat the arrogance by running again. A longer campaign is just as doomed as 2024 was.

As for Biden: there was no way he was winning. Dude was gone. I had no faith he could get through the debate and it was proved immediately.
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Blastia posted...
I honestly believe even Jesus himself would have lost to trump

I told one of the relgious Trumpers in my office that Jesus would've voted Democrat. He didn't even bother to disagree with me. He just said times are different.
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Squall28 posted...
I told one of the relgious Trumpers in my office that Jesus would've voted Democrat. He didn't even bother to disagree with me. He just said times are different.
Welp
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Squall28 posted...
The accountability is with the voters who picked a rapist, pedophile, racist, fascist, and traitor. Stop trying to pass the blame. It's the MAGAs. It's the "she needs to earn my vote" liberals. It's ignorant, terrible people.

Trump sold them a dream, domination, and others didn't believe how bad he would be. Most people don't pay that much attention; they just go with their priors. They bear responsibility for the consequences.

But you also have to live in reality. You can't rely on people having a sudden epiphany that Trump is a fascist and literally anything would be better when they don't actually believe that. You actually have to run and win elections, you can't simply do it by default. You have to get people to vote FOR you at some point, not just against the other guy. Because there's always the option to stay home.

The next Democratic candidate needs to be someone with a genuine groundswell of support and a vision, a fighter, someone that energizes and is not considered someone to settle on. That's when Democrats win.

We've seen from 2016 and 2024 that "the other guy is just so bad" is not enough and focusing on that at this point is a path to death. We won't get another chance.

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Accolon posted...
The true recklessness was the Democratic party not having any plan in place for a possible Trump victory

Respectfully: There was no plan that could have been put in place that would be effective with MAGA controlling every branch of government.

It was up to the voters to put a check, any check, on Trump. We blew it.

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Westernwolf4 posted...
Respectfully: There was no plan that could have been put in place that would be effective with MAGA controlling every branch of government.

It was up to the voters to put a check, any check, on Trump. We blew it.
You mean the MAGA supporters and protest voters blew it.
Being for somebody or having a better candidate doesn't fix the map.

Barely winning by rebuilding the blue wall in 2028 guarantees that we lose 2032 when it cease to exist.

And that's with winning 2028 already in serious doubt.
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Even if people are starting to realize that the Trump economy is bad, they're not going to hold on to those feelings long enough to remember at the next polling place. Some of these people may still support Trump because they just want him to hear their prayers and receive his love.

People simply just don't want to vote Democrat and that could take a generation to fix. All these fence sitters are looking for is the next pro-police party but simply governs better.
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CastletonSnob1 posted...
Democrats not even considering the possibility of an 80+ year old man not being up for the job of POTUS, and having backup candidates goes beyond "recklessness", and is flat-out political malpractice.

Someone needs to audit Harris's campaign. To spend over a billion dollars, only to lose every swing state and the popular vote is mind-boggling. There needs to be accountability for this level of failure.

I wholeheartedly agree with your first paragraph, but not the second. The main sin of the Democratic Party was leaving it up to Biden to run for a second term under his circumstances. The main sin of Biden was not committing to being a one term President from the start, given his age.

But the campaign was pretty doomed for reasons pretty obvious without an audit. A short campaign, Covid driven worldwide rampant inflation, and an electorate that is one third cult and one third stupid.

It would have been a close campaign for any Democrat even if Biden had done the right thing and declined to run in the first place.
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Humble_Novice posted...
You mean the MAGA supporters and protest voters blew it.

I agree, but sadly the rest of us are part of this electorate too, and we failed in what we had to do. We failed as a group, and now we have to all suffer.

But of course the cult and the morons are the ones responsible for the failure. I will be angry about it forever.

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Humble_Novice posted...
You mean the MAGA supporters and protest voters blew it.

You blame protest voters for everything. You seem to think if every protest voter suddenly voted we would win when that's very obviously not the case. The amount of protest voters was negligible. More Democrats just sat out because they were lazy and apathetic and don't actually care that much.
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Accolon posted...
The true recklessness was the Democratic party not having any plan in place for a possible Trump victory
Their plan for a Trump victory is the same as it was for a Harris victory - enrich the donors.
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legendary_zell posted...
Trump sold them a dream, domination, and others didn't believe how bad he would be. Most people don't pay that much attention; they just go with their priors. They bear responsibility for the consequences.

But you also have to live in reality. You can't rely on people having a sudden epiphany that Trump is a fascist and literally anything would be better when they don't actually believe that. You actually have to run and win elections, you can't simply do it by default. You have to get people to vote FOR you at some point, not just against the other guy. Because there's always the option to stay home.

The next Democratic candidate needs to be someone with a genuine groundswell of support and a vision, a fighter, someone that energizes and is not considered someone to settle on. That's when Democrats win.

We've seen from 2016 and 2024 that "the other guy is just so bad" is not enough and focusing on that at this point is a path to death. We won't get another chance.

I agree with the post you replied to by Squall about voter accountability, and I agree with your post too. But here is the problem: Even if we get everything we are looking for from a Democrat with a vision, the best we can hope for is a close election nationally. Because the GOP has worked hard for 50 years to break this electorate with lies and propaganda and other dirty tricks. So many voters now live in a cult reality where facts dont even exist. Today, there is a sizable chunk of the electorate who will never vote for a Democrat no matter what. And another chunk who are either partially indoctrinated or are same thing/both sides discouraged so that persuading them takes a huge amount of money and effort.

We cannot give up: I am not saying that at all. But these this and that is to blame discussions frustrate me, because the problem is so much deeper than one election. The GOP decided long ago to abandon good faith governing and taint the electorate.and they succeeded. And I do not think the damage is going to be undone for a very long time. If ever.

What you describe in your second to last paragraph is probably the only path to victory in this day and age. I hope that is the candidate we get. But in the long term, the issue is we stood by and allowed the GOP to brainwash generations of the electorate, with families listening to fucking Rush Limbaugh spew lies every day over breakfast. I just dont know how we fix that now.
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Dio posted...
You blame protest voters for everything. You seem to think if every protest voter suddenly voted we would win when that's very obviously not the case. The amount of protest voters was negligible. More Democrats just sat out because they were lazy and apathetic and don't actually care that much.
Look who's defending protest voters here.
She was absolutely right, didn't Biden's team have internal polling showing he'd get absolutely destroyed long before that disastrous first debate?
Time is a funny thing, you know? I guess in the big picture of my life, you were only a blip. But oftentimes, those "blips" make the biggest impacts.
For what it's worth, since 2000:

Dems w/ Biden on the ticket: 3-0
Dems w/o Biden on the ticket: 0-4

Plus, he was a good president that had defeated Trump once before. Entering 2024, I do think he believed he a) could've turned the polling around, and b) legitimately thought he was the party's best shot given the track record.
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.
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Humble_Novice posted...
Look who's defending protest voters here.
Jfc man, nobody is defending protest voters. They're just saying that protest voters did not make as much of an impact as you seem to think they did.
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Biden exuded the whole "we just need to get her across the finish line" mentality that doomed Hillary Clinton.

That only works if candidate quality actually matters. It doesn't.
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The issue was everyone pretending for years not to notice the obvious until the debate. It was crystal clear to anyone who wasnt a shill that something was wrong. The man was basically hidden from the media. He barely did press conferences. He barely could get a sentence out of his mouth. He literally froze in place McConnel style more than onceand it became increasingly obvious to people who werent trump supporters or even right wing.

Kamala was deeply unpopular, even among the left. Lets not forget that she was slaughtered in the primary. The media and the DNC did their best to prop her up as something new and exciting but people saw through it. Shes not wrong though, it was absolutely reckless of him to run again, but he was enabled by everyone putting their fingers in their ears and humming really loud when the obvious made itself even more obvious.

I mean this literally..he would not have been able to get a job at McDonalds if he was a regular guy because he would be dangerous in the kitchen. Pretending that wasnt the case was the downfall. They could have run someone qualified.

Dont let this devolve into a what about Trump thing. It doesnt matter. Trumps not the reason why it was a mistake to run Biden or Harris.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
She was absolutely right, didn't Biden's team have internal polling showing he'd get absolutely destroyed long before that disastrous first debate?

They did

If Biden stayed in the race then he probably loses states like Virginia and even states like New Jersey might have been in play. Republicans also would have won 57 Senate seats

I thought Harris' book was going to toe the line on Biden so this is a pleasant surprise
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Accolon posted...
The true recklessness was the Democratic party not having any plan in place for a possible Trump victory

the plan was win the election. What kind of plan do you think there is in place of that?
SaikyoStyle posted...
Their plan for a Trump victory is the same as it was for a Harris victory - enrich the donors.

I want you to describe in your own words how exactly this happens. Some of you are stuck in 2006
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This is certainly important news we need to constantly rally around..... /s

In all seriousness, anyone who claims to know Trump is a danger to America, whether the candidate was Kamala, Biden or Mickey Mouse.... they should know that person is better than Trump.
That said, the solution wasn't to anoint her not even half a year before election day, there should have been a real primary, Biden should never have sought reelection.
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Slayer2111 posted...
Dont let this devolve into a what about Trump thing. It doesnt matter. Trumps not the reason why it was a mistake to run Biden or Harris.
It devolves into that because its not helping to bring it up.

If at the end of the day it was Biden vs Trump, constantly rallying around being begrudge about voting for Biden doesnt help us defeat Trump.

It doesnt matter who the Democrat candidate is, our side always has a faction working tirelessly to convince enough people to not vote, go 3rd party, or motivation begrudgingly vote Dem.
Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
That said, the solution wasn't to anoint her not even half a year before election day, there should have been a real primary, Biden should never have sought reelection.

She would've won and a primary would've been worse, tbqh.

They're toxic personality contests, not displays of merit.
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Dio posted...
You blame protest voters for everything. You seem to think if every protest voter suddenly voted we would win when that's very obviously not the case. The amount of protest voters was negligible. More Democrats just sat out because they were lazy and apathetic and don't actually care that much.
Not sure about percentages but going purely by numbers Harris got more votes than Biden did in most swing states. I also did the math at one point and found that even if Green party and other left adjacent parties had voted for Harris she still would have lost to the sheer number of Trump voters.

Exit polls point to economic and immigration being the top two concerns by far. Gaza was at the very bottom or lumped in as a distant "other." Protest voters are largely confined to blue states which are still overwhelmingly blue.

Anyway, it's nice to see that she agrees with what "doomers" and "secret MAGA" were saying in 2023 and that "Biden old" or "Biden unpopular" were indeed incredibly valid talking points.
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Dio posted...
You blame protest voters for everything. You seem to think if every protest voter suddenly voted we would win when that's very obviously not the case. The amount of protest voters was negligible. More Democrats just sat out because they were lazy and apathetic and don't actually care that much.

Oh wow god forbid we assign some portion of blame to the people screaming "Do what we want or lose" after a loss.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
That said, the solution wasn't to anoint her not even half a year before election day, there should have been a real primary, Biden should never have sought reelection.

If Biden drops out at the end of 2022 or even mid-2023 then Democrats win the 2024 Presidential election. That's why talking about it is in fact relevant.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
That said, the solution wasn't to anoint her not even half a year before election day, there should have been a real primary, Biden should never have sought reelection.
Unfortunately there wasn't enough time for a primary. Biden never should have run again.
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