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‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
(www.theguardian.com)
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Pivoting from Biden to Harris guaranteed a Trump victory.
We need a replacement for the democrat party.
Biden had been showing his age for almost a year before he dropped out. That debate was his last chance to show he wasn't having a massive mental decline, and he failed. There was no way he could have won against Trump after that.
I actually disagree. I think the debate was blown way out of proportion and most people who would've voted for him prior would've still voted to him after.
It's important to acknowledge that there are a lot of liars on the internet. It's easy to make it appear that a bunch of people jumped ship from biden after the debate when you see waves of trolls saying "yeah, I was gonna vote for Biden but not after that debate!" Meanwhile, they were going to vote for Trump all along.
That said, I still don't think Biden had a great shot at winning because he doesn't serve the working class or exploit their emotions.
Pivoting to Biden in 2020 is what really sank the party in 2024. Covid won 2020 for Biden, but he thought he was something special so in 2024 he desperately clung onto power until his mental decline was too obvious for even party diehards to deny and then the party scrambled to push through Harris who was forced to adopt that bonehead's general rhetoric. Biden would've lost things even harder. The party really fucked itself with Biden, but I'm sure the party thinks it was all worth it to prevent a Bernie victory.
Harris overtook Biden's polling numbers quite quickly. Also, I find that Biden's pardoning of the "kids4cash" judge demonstrates some extreme incompetence and tone deafness".