That's naive and you know it. A massive drive for him was electing the first black president. A less, but still not-insignificant drive was for Hillary as the first female president.
Towards the end of his presidency, most of us forgot he was even black. Just those white southerners and a certain old guy in New York who were fixated on his race from the beginning still thought he was a DEI elect.
Can you imagine if mainstream entertainers made songs celebrating having a white president?
John McCain’s VP was female during 08 and he lost by a huge margin.
Kamala probably wins in 2016.
It’s Hillary and Kamala Harris.
I’m not saying they don’t get some voters from being women, the point is they also lost votes from being women.
I think a rotting corps might have won in 2016, but 4 years later vs a women and suddenly he’s doing great.
The inflation rate fell significantly under his presidency, but during periods of high inflation prices soared. Coming back from that after generations of extremely low inflation would have been tough for someone without failing facilities. I think a great politician could have weathered that storm, Biden wasn’t up to the task and Kamala’s messaging didn’t help.
Republicans getting out ahead on that inflation messaging similarly did wonders for Trump and other Republicans. Planting the idea that America somehow didn’t do well when we did far better than the rest of the world was brilliantly executed IMO.
But facing off against someone who was never particularly sharp or articulate. I think it evened the playing field.
Had she had a chance to prove that she could win a primary things might have been different