Originally published at: Democrats Rally Around Harris As Trump Splutters
The day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats have been expressing their enthusiasm in endorsements and eye-popping fundraising hauls. Republicans are trying to find their footing while Trump rails against Biden and bemoans the time he wasted campaigning against him.
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TFG wants to talk to the manager! He was promised a run against Biden and now that isn’t happening, so he wants a REFUND NOW!
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I just wanted to say President Biden is a patriot and a true hero in todays crazy times. We should all thank him for his 50 years of public service.
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I wouldn’t assume Manchin is done. The man’s ambition is boundless. Expect him to be in the “let’s make this fair” caucus who endlessly whines about the process while not actually being a part of it. He’s definitely going to damn Harris with faint praise. It’s in his nature.
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Does anybody give a shit what he thinks, He quit the party remember!!!
Manchin says he won’t run for president, calls for Democratic “mini primary” (msn.com)
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Daily Beast reports that Harris has now raised $64 million since Biden’s announcement yesterday and that some Democratic insiders predict she’ll hit $90 million by the 24-hour mark. It’s morning in America, folks… let’s get to work!
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When does TSF NOT splutter?
I am SO SICK of his whining.
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Manchin can go suck an egg. He is old news and not the future.
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I’m not going to be relieved until I see Harris’ poll numbers improve. The entire argument for dumping Biden was that he was too old and he had bad polling. Kamala’s approval rating is currently sitting at 38%. The last Georgia poll I saw had her losing to Trump by 5 points.
Dems opened Pandora’s box and actually changed their candidate 3 months before the election. If there isn’t a massive improvement in Kamala’s poll numbers in 1-2 weeks, this will be the worst self-inflicted crisis Democrats have ever committed.
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“Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump. The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election.”
Nikki Haley, January 2024
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Not exactly Cassandra but I like the sentiment
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Make 'em scream. The louder they scream, the wider they have to open their mouths. And the wider they open their mouths, the more shit we can make them eat.
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They’ll get there, but I think the GOP response has been so bad because their brains couldn’t process someone stepping away from the power of the presidency, or not jumping at the chance to ascend.
They just don’t think about the welfare of other people. It’s all selfishness and power with them.
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“The ramification of this, I fear, will be very little incentive for future Democratic presidents to work for these substantial, progressive achievements, if they get so little credit for them and have to take on some amount of water while the sausage gets made.”
Excellent insight, alas.
With the exception, for me, of Gaza, Biden was consistently a better and more progressive and more effective president than I expected, especially on economic matters. I am fully behind Harris, will donate, volunteer etc. But I’m waiting to see, for example, whether she picks up or discards Biden’s promise to raise taxes on the enemies of humanity, I mean, the very rich.
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The ramification of this, I fear, will be very little incentive for future Democratic presidents to work for these substantial, progressive achievements, if they get so little credit for them and have to take on some amount of water while the sausage gets made.
Some people aren’t in it to get credit.
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I disagree -
I think keeping Biden was a sure loss, and if Harris loses it is not implicitly because the democrats made a bad choice.
If she implodes, then sure, it can be spun as a terrible thing dems did to Biden etc and a stupid decision.
But Biden was, in all likelihood, going to lose.
Harris losing wouldn’t change that fact.
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Years ago I heard a wise wag say that some people seek higher office to be something and others to do something.
It’s a clarifying test I use to evaluate candidates.
JD Vance is the former
Biden was always the latter
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Manchin, isn’t that the right-wing asshole who left the party last month?
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Nikki Haley earlier this year:
“If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, mark my words we will see a President Kamala Harris”
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That was my calculus - the polls had been stable all year showing Trump ahead in the battleground states and 1-2% in the national (with Biden needing a 2% win). And the country knows both of these candidates intimately. That fact coupled with Biden’s limited ability to campaign was pointing to a Dem victory only happening if outside circumstances dictated it - maybe those damaging Apprentice tapes surface and they are as bad as it is rumored. You can’t count on that.
So, essentially Biden made it so that Trump got his victory over him in July when it doesn’t count. Now there is an opportunity for a new dynamic in what is a new election to take shape.
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