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Biden Campaign Starts Reminding America Why It Dumped Trump In The First Place (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/news

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Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.

Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.

“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.

“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He promised to pick a woman, not specifically a black woman. That's why there are still unsubstantiated rumors that he/his team had settled on Klobuchar until George Floyd happened. That would clarify how they got Klobuchar to step out of the race so easily, too. If Biden promised Buttigieg a vague cabinet position, and Amy the VP... the two of them dropping out at just the right time makes complete sense.

Harris "represents" her surface-level demographic, but in her time in Oakland, she rolled back the practices of her predecessor Terence Hallinan, who was possibly the most progressive DA in the country. During his two terms, violent crime dropped by 60%, and he was an outspoken advocate for weed legalization. He said sex work was a public health issue and not a criminal one, and worked to steer as many non-violent cases into diversion/rehab and away from jail time as possible.

All of this, of course, pissed off the cops to no end. So Harris cozied up to the police and big money donors, and ran the now-typical "tough on crime" candidacy.... And, well, you can see what has happened to San Francisco between when she was elected in 2003 and now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know he initially promised to pick a woman, but I'm pretty sure he changed that to black women, saying he has like 4 to choose from. Either way it's bad taste to make such an important decision openly based on race and gender.

So we agree that nobody wants Harris as president? And that voting for Biden is how we might just end up with her as president?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If Biden wins and survives to the end of a second term, I think the nomination will be hotly contested.