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would be nice if Biden uses his lame duck status to revert it. FL isn't much of a purple state anymore anyway
Biden has never supported any leftist policies. Why would he start now?
Is lifting the embargo on Cuba really a "leftist" policy? Didn't Obama try it?
Would certainly be a Leftist victory, arguing whether or not an action is leftist is semantics.
Nothing good ever came from genocide joe
Tell that to the millions of people who no longer have student loan debt.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/as-clock-ticks-down-biden-abandons-student-loan-relief-proposals-he-lauded/ar-AA1wfvfi
Trust me, as someone who's aid was blocked by the Supreme Court, I am well aware of what's happening with this.
That said, why don't we actually talk about what he was able to forgive before Republicans shut it down?
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/biden-harris-administration-approves-additional-428-billion-student-debt-relief-nearly-55000-public-service-workers-0
Pretty significant. Want to compare it to the President with the second most student loans forgiven? Good news, you don't need to. The rest of the list is empty.
I'm not one of those, "wah, other people got something and I didn't" people. I'm glad people had their loans forgiven.
I think the chips and science act was one of the few things he did that was good
It wouldn't really mean that much since Trump would reverse that decision immediately.
Basically just giving Trump a free win with the Latino block in Florida for no discernable benefit.
Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.
That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.
That’s pretty purple.
By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn't useful anymore.
Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it'll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.
Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.
It's almost like every state isn't a monolithic political entity
So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.
What about strange women lying in ponds distributing swords?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Maybe slightly worse than the Electoral College.
Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.
33% of voteing age people in Florida didn't vote. 37% voted for Trump, 30% for Harris.
The non voters already took themselves out of the equation.