The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the president’s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whether Joe Biden was going to endorse Kamala Harris or not. And the question didn’t revolve around whether he wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh start going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
    812·
    4 months ago

    We haven’t heard Kamala debate. She was not very popular in 2020. Sometimes she comes across as cringey and foolish. I wish people would stop acting like she should be coronated. She needs to prove herself before being the nominee. Just handing everything to her on a silver plater isn’t going to get the response Democrats are hoping for.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      121·
      4 months ago

      She’s the VP, and the President’s nomination. She’s already on the ballot, so she has access to existing campaign funds. There are no outspoken challengers, and there are eight weeks until early voting ballots are sent out.

      What do you suggest instead?

      • John Richard@lemmy.world
        111·
        4 months ago

        There is at least one outspoken challenger that I know of. She should hopefully be starting some live interviews today on news networks. If she’s like Biden and stays hidden unless there is a teleprompter and has her team silence anyone else, she’s toast too. She was also running cover and part of the team shielding Biden which is what put us in this predicament. If she intends to beat Trump, she needs to come out and start speaking about how she is different. The further she can distance herself from Biden altogether, the better.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          12·
          4 months ago

          Care to share a link or her name? Your comment reads like disengagement propaganda by putting down Harris without supporting your nameless alternative.

          • John Richard@lemmy.world
            23·
            4 months ago

            https://marianne2024.com

            BTW I’m not putting her down. I’m saying handing it to her without any public debate or discourse, and just acting like cause she was Biden’s VP that she’s already got this, isn’t a winning strategy. She’s got to distance herself from Biden now and show America what she’s got that will be superior and better.

            • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
              41·
              4 months ago

              Williamson didn’t break 10% in the 2020 primary. What makes you think she’s going to capture more of the Democratic vote now?

              • John Richard@lemmy.world
                13·
                4 months ago

                I didn’t say she would. I said Kamala needs to prove herself… she needs to have some public discourse with other people to show the public she is the best candidate. If another candidate makes her look weak then she’s not the best candidate.

                • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
                  0·
                  4 months ago

                  She has been the fucking VICE PRESIDENT for awhile now, and she’s been an attorney general AND a district Attorney. She does not need to “prove herself”.

                  • John Richard@lemmy.world
                    01·
                    4 months ago

                    So the Joe & Kamala ticket was losing in polls badly, causing other Democrats to suffer. Kamala is going to have the exact same issue if she doesn’t prove herself. What she proved so far was she was fine with genocide, she was fine with elder abuse. If she doesn’t distance herself from Joe and show us something different, then Joe might as well have stayed in. What is a democracy if the voters have no say in the matter, and the nomination is just given to the same corporate puppet that stood alongside the losing candidate?

            • MagicShel@programming.dev
              0·
              4 months ago

              I remember her from her last campaign. She is pretty articulate on stage, but she has some really fucking loony beliefs. Way too much spirituality and love. That’s a fine message for self-help books, but it was a bad look when Nancy Reagan was dialing Miss Cleo for advice, and it would look even worse today.

              Trump would tear her up one side and down the other.

              You want Kamala to prove herself? The clowns I’ve seen stepping forward - Manchin and now this - aren’t going to prove or disprove anything.

              • John Richard@lemmy.world
                01·
                4 months ago

                Because the DNC did what they always do. They said sure we’ll change the face but not give you choice. They hope just having a younger black female version of Biden will be sufficient, even though nothing is really changing. Voters weren’t just worried about Biden’s age, they are also tired of being manipulated and gaslit about their party.