Battleground Michigan congresswoman Hillary Scholten calls for Biden to drop out of presidential race
Battleground Michigan congresswoman Hillary Scholten calls for Biden to drop out of presidential race
Vulnerable Michigan Democrat calls on President Joe Biden to abandon his bid for a second term and allow another Democrat to take his place
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Being concerned about your own race is not enough.
We need to know what the national strategy is. Who would replace Joe Biden? The fact that Scholten calls for Biden to get out, while is herself unable to name a reasonable replacement shows the magnitude of the problem. These Democrats want Biden to leave before a cohesive post-Biden strategy is formulated.
I'm not necessarily against replacing Biden. But I am absolutely against Democrats running around like a headless chicken 4 months before the election. Have Democrats settled on Harris as the replacement? Are yall actually cool with that?
Can you actually say "Harris should replace Biden" moving forward, rather than this wishy-washy "Please leave Biden" kind of talk? One statement speaks far louder than the other.
I'll vote for Harris. I'll vote for Biden. This strategy doesn't affect me or my vote. So I see it as a waste of time. But if everyone else is nervous, give me a sign that you actually have a cohesive strategy moving forward rather than just having nerves or weak knees about this situation.
I expect progressives are using this as an opportunity to backstab Biden and most Democrats, and install someone much further left / appealing to their personal politics. That's why progressives can't name someone they actually want to run / replace Biden and want to just bring Biden down in the vain hopes that they win out in the chaos. But that's too dangerous of a strategy for me moving forward. I want to know who actually has reasonable chances of beating Trump (and I think Kamala Haris has worse chances than Biden actually). I want to know who specifically these people want to support before Biden steps down.
Do they need a "strategy" when the whole point of a primary is to find a suitable candidate?
Yes. You need to prove to me that Biden stepping out is better for Democrats and/or America than Biden staying in.
If your strategy is bullshit "I'll figure it out later", then sorry, I'm sticking with Biden for my support. If you can't even reliably tell me that you'll back Kamala Haris (or any other specificly named reasonable replacement), then that's proof of your lack of strategy.
This is too important of an issue to fuck up and turn into chaos just a few months before the election. If yall don't like Biden, then my strategy is for Biden to run and then resign in January, making Kamala President (and keeping the important technicalities of donations which are earmarked to the Biden campaign). Anything else has incredible amounts of risk tying up important money that's been collected for months. (Alternatively, if someone can assure me that Kamala will have the full support of the Biden campaign's resources if Biden leaves... I can support Kamala without a doubt).
I'm voting for neither, nor Trump. This doesn't impact my vote either. Unless something crazy happens, I'm voting for Chase Oliver.
But I don't live in a swing state, so my opinion here isn't relevant.