• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Those articles are out there.

    The key differences are Trump is the popular candidate. He is who the GOP electorate wants and who the GOP runs on.

    Biden is not a popular candidate and not who the Democratic party electorate necessarily wants: instead his whole candidacy and presidency has solely been not being Trump. This condition is fully transferrable to any candidate with support of the party.

    So the ramifications and implications are wildly different.

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      4 months ago

      Biden is not a popular candidate and not who the Democratic party electorate necessarily wants: instead his whole candidacy and presidency has solely been not being Trump. This condition is fully transferrable to any candidate with support of the party.

      Biden may not be a popular candidate on Lemmy, but he absolutely was prior to that debate showing with the general public. It turns out moderates and independents make up a large portion of the voting block and they aren’t all drooling at the prospects of Bernie Sanders. They WANT a boring president.

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        4 months ago

        They want a competent president. Biden has been showing these signs for quite some time to a lot of resistance towards anyone willing to acknowledge it. But now? Shit I’ve seen hard leftists express willingness to support Kamala Harris so I think people are mostly on board for not-Biden in general.

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        he absolutely was prior to that debate showing with the general public

        Only 25% of Democrats wanted him to run, he is not a popular candidate