Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

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Pittsburgh Footy said:
You literally never listen. To anyone. For the umpteenth time:

1) Biden, as a sitting president with another term, would never think of stepping down
2) Biden, when continually confronted with polling data, discussions with respected Democrats, the weight of his awful debate performance, etc, etc, eventually saw the light and realized he was at the very real risk of losing. To Donald Trump of all people. Let that sink in.
3) No one "forced" him to do anything. He wasn't going to be thrown in jail if he stayed in. He wasn't going to be executed. He really did see he could lose this thing.
4) Since it was so late in the game, for reasons we've described over and over and over again, there weren't a lot of options, all generally equally bad.
5) Therefore, now I'm spitballing here, but it probably went like this:

"Yo, I hear you guys. I'm trailing an absolute moron in the polls and I got my most trusted aides saying it's looking grim, pops......what should we do"

"Well Mr President, it's the end of July and we can have all out warfare for the next 3 weeks within the party, making us look even worse. Or we can get everyone on board that we should roll with Kamala. Let's call Gavin and see what he thinks."

"Yo Gavin here, what up? [listens intently]. Oh sure, got it. Yeah, that could get ugly. Sure, sure, yeah i hear you. Let's roll with Kamala. She's the VP, she can do the job, let's go win this thing."

And this happened with a number of top Democrats.

Once they all got on board this was the best course of action, the decision was made.

You want the alternative of all out warfare. Fair enough. If Kamala loses we can play Monday morning quarterback. Or in footy parlance, why did we start Ashely Young yet again instead of Patterson. Whatever. I know where you fall on that spectrum.

But given the terrible options on the table, this was the one that was made
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In addition to practicality matters, weren’t there also some very real legal hurdles pertaining to campaign finance laws that made it almost impossible to actually start and fund a whole new campaign for anyone but her?
 
Couldn't give a fig about Yahya Sinwar, good riddance tbh, but I'm not sure Kamala Harris' choice of words that "justice has been served" is going to do her any favours in Michigan.

What's happened in Gaza, and in fact what's happened in that region since 1948, bears no resemblance whatsoever to justice being served.

Just more evidence that Palestinian life does not impinge on the thoughts of the US government one iota.
 
RAFUH said:
Absentee/mail in ballots may be an issue. They were delayed getting out already because of Kennedy, then the hurricane.
GOP is of course looking to give leniency to late arriving mail in ballots. Amusing since it was the GOP that has tightened those laws in recent years.

Sounds like in person early voting isn't going too badly. It started today.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4938268-north-carolina-early-voting-hurricane-helene/

Only four of the 80 sites in western North Carolina hit hardest by the flooding will not be open.

Brinson Bell said at a press conference last week it’s harder to carry out elections through such devastation, but the state’s processes “are working” and election officials are “exercising what we know to do.”
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North Carolina strong.

 
TN Toffee said:
In addition to practicality matters, weren’t there also some very real legal hurdles pertaining to campaign finance laws that made it almost impossible to actually start and fund a whole new campaign for anyone but her?
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Yes. It would have been incredibly difficult. Here's a list of the challenges if the candidate were anyone other than Kamala Harris:

www.forbes.com

What Happens To Biden’s Campaign Cash If He Drops Out?

Biden, in a letter to Democrats on Monday, reiterated his plans to stay in the race and urged them to unify behind his campaign.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
 
Ruairi77 said:
I think everyone wants to cut out government spending waste.
But look at the guy they quote
"In the federal government, everything is 'Go spend more money' and if that doesn't work, it's 'Go spend more money.'
That's pretty disingenuous.
There needs to be oversight.
At the moment theres a lot of 'Gov is overspending, lets cut SNAP and ignore the military'.
or Gov is overspending, lets cut spending on asylum seekers and spend way more building a wall with space lazers'.
Both parties overspend in government, the Republicans have just mastered the art of blaming the weakest members of society.
The first thing to do in order to spend wisely would be to ban lobbying, but that would be communist
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It shouldn’t be a D vs R thing. I don’t give a rats behind. Waste is waste. Someone else asked to name 3 programs to get rid of. I don’t think that’s the right question. The right question is where are we not allocating and managing dollars property to achieve more value? Do I personally think we misappropriate resources overseas when people are suffering on the streets here? 100%. But even so, it might not have to be one or the other if the government didn’t just assume they had an endless piggy bank.

Stopping lobbying would be a great start. It’d also benefit society in more ways than just the federal budget. Lobbyists have prevented so much good from happening that people don’t even realize.
 
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