(No intend for this to be a controversial statement)
I only want to express my opinion that he (and the Democratic party) took a while to make this decision, to their detriment.
Interesting to see who their new candidate is going to be.
I only want to express my opinion that he (and the Democratic party) took a while to make this decision, to their detriment.
Interesting to see who their new candidate is going to be.
They take over the news cycle from the Republican convention, and they neutralize a huge amount of the talking points from the convention. That could be pretty brilliant.
(I mean, it would have been better for Biden to clearly not be running last year at this time, and let the primary process do its thing. But dropping out right now might be pretty decent timing.)
The media class now has months of things to talk about wrt the Dems. The less screentime Trump gets the better, and his convention is already over and spent zero time attacking the actual candidate.
YMMV, we have very different political systems and cultures, etc. etc.
The tough thing though is that money donated to Biden doesn’t transfer to other candidates.
The daily wire did an Extensive breakdown of each scenario a few days ago:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vmeGPmDP0nopAlOwDZIV6
This particular scenario is covered at 0:30
That's wild and should be fixed.
The challenge is transferring to someone not named Kamala. [0] You need some campaign finance oversight with accounts, etc., and refunding and transferring to a "new" candidate would take time and jeopardize tying up ~$100 million in funds.
[0] https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-harris-...
The idea that the DNC has any power to steer the party is a joke. That is a mental model that is at least 20 years dead.
Kamala is not a strong candidate, let's see what happens.
I'll admit this is a bit silly in light of PAC/SuperPAC spending now, but we did have election spending rules at one point and this was one of them.