Hey neighbor (Raleigh here). I think the one thing that is preventing a blowout for Trump is that he is a uniquely bad candidate. If he didn't have the baggage, the Republican candidate would be leading by double digits. I agree that Kamala has gotten a bad rap for a variety of reasons -- she was a bad candidate in the primaries, racial/…
Hey neighbor (Raleigh here). I think the one thing that is preventing a blowout for Trump is that he is a uniquely bad candidate. If he didn't have the baggage, the Republican candidate would be leading by double digits. I agree that Kamala has gotten a bad rap for a variety of reasons -- she was a bad candidate in the primaries, racial/sexist bias, etc...but would be perfectly comfortable voting for her for POTUS. There may be logistical and financial advantages too (rather than having to move campaign funds to a new ticket....not sure about this). I am also of the opinion that a candidate born after the Korean War will have a build in advantage. I'm with the Bulwark team ... beating Trump is more important than any single candidate.
Agree with your last sentence. Ezra Klein has a good piece today, "What is the Democratic Party For?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mylX_uMaX8k). He says this: "(In the past) parties subsume(d) individual ambition . . . you commit(ed) to the party and to the cause, never to the man.
"Parties lived up to this imperfectly, but at key moments, they did live up to it. Famously, it was a delegation of Republican members of Congress who persuaded President Richard Nixon to resign. There was more to the Republican Party than Nixon’s ambitions. There is not more to the Republican Party today than Trump’s ambitions. I would have told you that the Democratic Party was different, that it was not just a vehicle for Biden’s ambitions. Now I’m not so sure."
I don't think we are there (at least not yet). The party is doing what a healthy party does ... disagreeing and (I'm sure) evaluating polling data and other factors in making a decision. I don't see blind loyalty to Biden. I'm open to the possibility that it could happen. There are quite a few people on Xitter and other platforms saying the Dems are behaving like MAGA but I don't see it. The Republican Party would never be having this debate no matter how Trump performed.
Hey neighbor (Raleigh here). I think the one thing that is preventing a blowout for Trump is that he is a uniquely bad candidate. If he didn't have the baggage, the Republican candidate would be leading by double digits. I agree that Kamala has gotten a bad rap for a variety of reasons -- she was a bad candidate in the primaries, racial/sexist bias, etc...but would be perfectly comfortable voting for her for POTUS. There may be logistical and financial advantages too (rather than having to move campaign funds to a new ticket....not sure about this). I am also of the opinion that a candidate born after the Korean War will have a build in advantage. I'm with the Bulwark team ... beating Trump is more important than any single candidate.
Agree with your last sentence. Ezra Klein has a good piece today, "What is the Democratic Party For?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mylX_uMaX8k). He says this: "(In the past) parties subsume(d) individual ambition . . . you commit(ed) to the party and to the cause, never to the man.
"Parties lived up to this imperfectly, but at key moments, they did live up to it. Famously, it was a delegation of Republican members of Congress who persuaded President Richard Nixon to resign. There was more to the Republican Party than Nixon’s ambitions. There is not more to the Republican Party today than Trump’s ambitions. I would have told you that the Democratic Party was different, that it was not just a vehicle for Biden’s ambitions. Now I’m not so sure."
I don't think we are there (at least not yet). The party is doing what a healthy party does ... disagreeing and (I'm sure) evaluating polling data and other factors in making a decision. I don't see blind loyalty to Biden. I'm open to the possibility that it could happen. There are quite a few people on Xitter and other platforms saying the Dems are behaving like MAGA but I don't see it. The Republican Party would never be having this debate no matter how Trump performed.