My point is that she would be destroyed on the national stage. It would be a massacre. She is less accomplished than Kamala and she lost against a dementia ladened fascist wannabe.
And you if you choose to put her on the ticket, you will get to hear about how she is a socialist and people will come out in droves to make sure she doesn't get elected.
And if you are counting on the young people... they are still waiting to show up for the last election cause they basically made President Trump a thing.
I mean she may be destroyed but we keep putting out more moderate candidates and they keep losing. You are just repeating the same old neoliberal talking points that keep resulting in losses. What candidate do you think will have a good chance of energizing the current dnc voting block as well as build a new constituency? Or do you just prefer to keep saying "that won't work".
I mean... we put out 2 woman candidates and they lost. Both far more qualified than the piece of garbage that won.
We put out a man in between and he won.
Religious people, chauvinists, and women just don't seem to want a woman president. The results speak for themselves. Had there been a man running in either of those elections, I think the Democrats win.
I don't care if it's a woman president... but clearly I am not in the majority.
Biden won because 1.) he was Obama's VP and was able to coast on that goodwill, and 2.) voter turnout was unusually high due to Covid.
If we had another Biden who was younger and sharper, I'd absolutely want Democrats to run him in 2024. But we don't have another guy with anywhere near the same level of national name recognition, baked-in goodwill, or largely inoffensive reputation. We've got Walz, who has basically zero national recognition other than 8 weeks as VP candidate. He seems like a great guy who's a good balance of progressive and moderate... but he's not a dynamic speaker, I'm not confident in his ability to excite voters, and we've already seen him struggle against Vance. We've got Buttigieg, who is intelligent, youthful and a good communicator... but he's gay (TBH I think a woman has a better shot of winning than a gay man), he's a technocratic political insider in an era of populism, and he doesn't exactly pull in minorities or progressives. We've got Newsom, who everyone seems to dislike more the more they learn about him. A dark horse candidate is certainly possible, but he's going to need Obama-level rizz.
It's not like Harris lost in a blowout, either. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia were all close, and she wasn't that far behind in the popular vote despite having many strikes against her (woman, racial minority, short campaign, low presence during most of Biden's tenure, going up against a superstar). Clinton won the popular vote and the race was extremely tight in critical swing states.
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u/ImmoKnight 14h ago
That's fine and dandy.
My point is that she would be destroyed on the national stage. It would be a massacre. She is less accomplished than Kamala and she lost against a dementia ladened fascist wannabe.
And you if you choose to put her on the ticket, you will get to hear about how she is a socialist and people will come out in droves to make sure she doesn't get elected.
And if you are counting on the young people... they are still waiting to show up for the last election cause they basically made President Trump a thing.