That feels like it came more from the right than the left. Michelle polls well, but that's mostly because she is explicitly not interested in seeking office. She has said it a thousand times, and after watching how her husband was treated, I don't blame her. But the right keeps up the idea that she's going to be ushered in at any moment in order to maintain this "Barack Obama is still secretly controlling everything" narrative. I think the party wants Whitmer, even if only for geographic reasons. Even if you sacrifice Georgia and Arizona, if you can sweep Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, you've got this thing locked up. As a woman she would help drive the pro-Roe vote as well. Andy Beshear is another interesting name, due to his popularity in a very red state, but I think his name recognition is too weak even for a late-stage switch like the one being contemplated. A Presidential race is a pressure cooker, and he hasn't gotten even the minimal scrutiny that Whitmer has gotten due to her prominent position during COVID.
Because being a president’s wife makes you qualified to be president. What is more annoying— that it keeps getting brought up, or the fact many Democrat voters thinks he’s actually the best person fur the job? Dynasties are fucking annoying.
Maybe...? Didn't Whitmer declare a few days ago that the Democrats had lost Michigan? But if she can hang on to her home state, then probably. I doubt they'll take Pennsylvania though. Wisconsin definitely.
If he steps down now, Harris would be running as the incumbent. Our news cycles and lust of public political consumption is so different than it used to be. Biden and Trump debated before either of them actually have the party's nomination. Biden has been in the public eye as a politician for a long, long time. He was elected as a senator in 1972 - that's longer than most of y'all have been alive. I'm sure he does love his son. He might just be tired of it, and the recent month of things has been his breaking point. Like, I mean, legitimately as a person, as a family man, and someone who wants to put their well-being first, he might just say, "I'm out." I've known a couple people personally who went to Washington, thinking they were going to serve the people and be noble. It's so disgusting, they quit, despite that they'd have been re-elected easily. They couldn't shake the stink.
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people. Like Hollywood it is a disgusting machine that chews you up and shits you out, but here you win your precious little statuette by being a better fake ugly actor than everyone else around you. So it’s either for you, or you leave the set vomiting after fifteen minutes because of the pigs— the absolute soulless cash whores that surround you. Sounds like your people did the right thing. It’s best to leave the party early before the devil shows up.
Saw a report that Biden and Harris dialed into a campaign conference call, and he said he’s not leaving. Source said it sounded scripted but definitive.
As much as it sucks for the campaign, I have to imagine they'd be among the last to know. You need them working full speed until and unless the final final decision is made.
I don’t think you have a career like Biden and just give up that easily. People that far into the Washington political game are a special breed of narcissist. People like McConnell or Feinstein hold onto their power until the bitter end. If he steps aside it’s going to be after some major cajoling from outside forces. I don’t know if Jill is running things like the right likes to claim but she sure hasn’t seemed opposed to sticking it out. I read a NYT article today that basically confirmed everything the WSJ article did. Ohh what one month and one debate makes.
If he hadn't already been President, maybe so. But, hey, last time one party's incumbent was ousted by the other party's challenger, it was George HW Bush losing to Clinton, and George W appointed Hunter Biden to the Board of Directors at Amtrak. So, maybe Trump wins, then Ashley runs in 2028 to keep the circle going!
the deep state hasn’t gotten him hooked on the babies yet. Sure he’d break the promise if he was elected.
This reminds me of a story from LBJ's early career in the '50s. He told one of his campaign workers to spread a rumor that his opponent fucked a goat. The campaign worker balked, saying that no one would ever believe it. "I know," said Johnson. "But make the sonuvabitch SAY that he didn't fuck a goat."
The damage control is going wonderfully. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep
I don’t see the problem here. I’m sure that Russia, Iran, North Korea and the Republicans will all courteously agree to limit their shenanigans to between 8 am and 8 pm Eastern standard time so Joe can get some shuteye.
Pretty good breakdown of the recent immunity decision: tl;dr: "among the top 5 worst Supreme Court decisions in US history."
Reminds me of the China-virus* lockdowns, when authorities asked criminals to "please stop committing crimes." *It came from China.