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The Democrats should have replaced Biden as president and not just as candidate. (self.politicaldiscussion)

submitted 1 month ago by ryathal to c/[email protected]

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Now is a great time for if I were there hypotheticals, so here's mine.

Once it was decided to run Harris and push Biden out, they should have gone all the way and used the 25th amendment to let Harris become president. This would have effectively separated her from Biden while still allowing her to take credit for the good stuff. She could have instructed the DOJ to start investigating price gouging now, and campaigned on needing to win to keep it up.

The 100ish days wouldn't have been enough for wholesale replacement, but it could have created a concrete message of this is where I want to go. A campaign focused on already delivering is a positive message people could get behind as well.

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

That's empirical evidence that it was stupid to float tax breaks and cosplay as moderate Republicans.

Maybe. I'm hearing that a lot lately, but I'm not politically astute enough to judge there - especially regarding Missouri that has more than a little contentious relationship with liberals. I'm talking bombings of abortion clinics, Josh Hawley being the only Senator to vote against a particular sex-slave trafficking bill, death threats delivered to SO MANY doctors etc. Even if what you are saying is true, I can see why her campaign did not think that Missouri could have been flipped over to actively voting for her. And even if it could have been, at what cost i.e. what amount of resources would that have required, vs. trying harder to win e.g. Pennsylvania?

Only Trump spoke to workers, even if he was lying.

Definitely that - similar to Hillary's promises "just suck it up and take it b/c everything is fine now as it is" (except pro-tip: it was NOT, and more people voted against her than for him). Both of them I noticed barely had a primary, which broke the older convention of leaning more left to first win the libs, then shift a bit to the right to engage the centrists (like people in MO). Perhaps not having a campaign is what led to her shifting too far to the right, straight out of the gate, and never having a chance to show the actual liberals what she wanted to do for them? She counted on people showing up for her to spite Trump... but apparently the Gaza situation, in combination with so much else (inflation & other economic hardships) did not make that happen, particularly where it counted i.e. again Pennsylvania (but the latter would have been substantially helped by hearing from many other places that had likewise chosen her over him instead of the reverse).