Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago#119,605
Kamala Harris says she intends to "earn and win" Democratic presidential nomination
She is such a fool. She hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell at beating Trump. Dems better do way better than her or the fat lady will be singing long before November!
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 1 year ago, 13 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,310,784
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I think in 2016 Bernie or Biden would have won pretty comfortably. Looking back I should have preferred Bernie but at the time I would've preferred Joe of the 3. I think in 2020 it's unclear to me that any other candidate would have done as well as Biden did, and Bernie had a heart attack in 2019 that would've severely hurt his campaign I think. I voted for him in the 2020 primary and one of my close friends worked at a senior but unsexy level of his campaign. It would have been personally better for me if Bernie was the nominee/president but I think he probably was too old and weird to win in an election where everything was insane, and people wanted some normalcy. That's what I meant by my shitpost.
Parties are supposed to elect the candidate that is most likely to deliver the strongest electoral result. Dems fumbled that in 2016, probably made the right call in 2020, and Biden stepping down here is probably the best thing that could have happened assuming you change nothing before today. It probably would have been "better" if Joe said he wasn't running for re-election in 2019 and let all the other Dems throw their hat into the ring and fight for the nomination. But there is no path in politics with zero risk, and usually no way to know at the time what the best move is. Frequently it's clear what the wrong move is when it's really wrong (e.g. Roy Moore for AL Senate) but that's about it.