2y ago

Biden campaign plans first big push - skewer the Republican debate

www.reuters.com

U.S. President Joe Biden's re-election campaign will use next week's Republican debate in the battleground state of Wisconsin to engage thousands of social media volunteers and launch their first advertising campaign aimed at Black and Latino voters, according to a Democratic official.

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I may be unenthusiastic about voting for Biden but I'm extremely enthusiastic about voting against Trump.
- The enthusiasm to vote against rather than for a candidate reveals the deeper crisis of a political system that effectively marginalizes meaningful alternatives.
  
  That's all well and good, but any kind of non-involvement only pushes us deeper into that system. One side sucks and cares about general human rights, the other side doesn't. One side attempted a coup, the other is largely pretty pissed about it. And unless something happens overnight that hasn't happened in the modern US, the winner is going to be D or R. One side will get us closer to bring able to get a better system, the other side would gladly make up election results and stay in power indefinitely a la Putin.
  
  I think most Democrats would agree with you, but we can get back to actual political discourse after we prevent a literal Russian asset from attempting to remove the right to have discourse at all.
  
  Yet another issue that ranked choice voting would solve.
- There could have been more progressive presidents sure, but I really think Biden’s achievements and stances are under appreciated. I believe he’s been the most progressive president we’ve ever had.
  
  I certainly wouldn't call him more progressive than the likes of FDR, but hell man I'll take a boring, milquetoast, inoffensive, ineffective, status quo president over the likes of Trump, DeSantis, Cruz, etc.
- The most important person in the country right now is not Joe Biden, it's his cardiologist. They need to make sure Joe's heart doesn't give out until at least Jan 20, 2025....
- That is a very safe thing to be said
And I'm sure not a single one of them will say something easy to make fun of on the internet.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican presidential contenders are gathering in Milwaukee next Wednesday for their first debate of the 2024 campaign season, even though front-runner and former President Donald Trump says he will skip the Fox News (FOXA.O) broadcast.
Trump may be absent but Democrats will be watching closely, in Milwaukee and across the country, using it as "as a high-impact press and organizing opportunity," according to the campaign official, who declined to be identified.
Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond and Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Jaime Harrison will hold a press conference before the debate.
The campaign will ask hundreds of thousands of volunteers, particularly in swing states, to post online during the debate, contrasting Republican statements with Biden's record, after holding a massive training session this weekend.
A slow start to an incumbent's presidential re-election campaign is not unusual: Barack Obama held his first official rally for the 2012 election in May of that year.
Biden needs to woo unimpressed Black and Latino voters who made his 2020 election victory possible, energize Democrats' unenthusiastic about a second four-year term, and lift his approval ratings from their current 40% range, political strategists say.
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While Republicans prepare for a public debate, Democrats are coronating Biden without any democratic contestation, revealing a glaring hypocrisy. Instead of embracing an open dialogue that could invigorate the electorate, they prefer a managed image, undermining the very principles they claim to uphold. Such practices not only turn off voters but lay bare the profound contradictions within the U.S. political system.
- You don’t primary your own president dog.
- Something that has been going on since the history of presidential elections is going to "not only turn off voters but lay bare the profound contradictions within the U.S. political system."??

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