• Doorbook@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I dont understand why democrat feel like they pretended there was no one else except Biden - Kamala to be the next president when they had a normal person like Walz. He seems more qualify, energetic, and likeable than Kamala.

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      4 months ago

      Because Biden wanted to be president again and the incumbent always gets the say. Glad it was different this time.

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      4 months ago

      Walz didn’t run in the primary.

      Our choice was biden, some blue dog conservative Dem from Minnesota, or rfk.

      Biden was the best of the lot.

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      4 months ago

      Tradition. Tradition is frequently stupid. That’s why they had to sweet-talk Biden into calling off his bid. Granted there are reasons to do it that way, but nobody cares much anymore, they just didn’t want to stick their necks out and be called traitors, even if there was little to no risk of splitting the party.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t understand why democrat[s] […] pretended there was no one else except Biden

      It’s only been mentioned about a bajillion times. Go learn why switching out the incumbent is a bad idea. Go.

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          4 months ago

          I think the timing of Biden deciding not to run was perfect. If he had dropped out before or during primaries, I’m not sure we’d have all this energy and momentum.

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            4 months ago

            In a democratic situation, I think if party know alot of people not supporting him and he should step down, they should have announce it before so the voter base can decide who they want. Giving Kamala an advantage doesn’t seem democratic.

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        4 months ago

        He blew up for me over the past 10 days.

        But the New York times wrote an article about him as a teacher in 2006 the year he first ran for Congress.