Well, he won't be running for president, so there's that.
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All future articles regarding things the executive branch does will go from "Biden did X" to "The Biden-Harris Administration did X"
It will confuse the tankies until they can write and send out their weekly newsletter with all the fun slogans to use over the next 7 days.
More threads mentioning Joe Biden in the title than Trump.
Harris isn't burdened with some responsibility for the Gaza genocide. That will help with younger voters who otherwise would have abstained. Things feel more positive from where I sit.
unburdened by what has been, you say
I predict it brings the chance of a second Biden term to zero
Thats some dangerou/s thinkin', u best stick to ur accounting ;)
Family Guy watchers will appreciate this bit
can't any citizen be president? I don't remember George Washington running for president
A ton of states are going to fight to keep Kamala Harris off the ballot.
How? Biden wasn't the official candidate yet.
A lot of states have laws that don't conform to the national primary process. For instance, Ohio has a law on the books that says the official nomination has to occur by a certain date which is before the second major party convention.
It is important to know that elections are technically run at the state level with some federal oversight.
I'd like to think that the DNC considered all of that before having Joe withdraw.
It was considered. They were going to nominate Biden early to be ahead of this date. I don't think that's happening anymore.
It's also important to know that (IIRC) currently things have been put in place in Ohio for this not to be an issue, but that could change if enough Ohio politicians want it to.
Gotta imagine there are a few more surprises in store for the convention.
I wonder if Biden's stepping down was partly influenced by the assassination attempt. If he hadn't, the most prominent symbol of this election would still be that image of Trump screaming "fight" while pumping his fist against the background of the American flag. But if someone from a deserted island opened a news website today for the first time, they wouldn't even know there was an assassination attempt.
That's an interesting. I would put my money on him catching covid being the deciding factor.
I'm pretty sure that him giving up is the best chance he has at success.
Ironic right?
Much of the world is irony.
As an Alanis Morisette song.
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