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Democrats eye Harris 2028 presidential run as they devise political comeback
(www.theguardian.com)
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This isn’t a terrible idea. Bush Sr ran twice before he was elected. I could say the same about Biden. Reagan lost before he won.
But most importantly, if she loses in 2028 it might actually be a good thing. 2030 is the next census, and the party with presidential power usually gets trounced in the midterm. So, I’m wondering, could we stand 2 more years of pain at the top for 10 years of progress at the state and legislative level?
That all is to say, if we still have fair elections :-(
Biden didn't win in 2020 because he was a great politician, he was just the default. Nothing about either that primary or that election suggests a talented politician who just needed to refine his message and keep trying. Most of the early primary was the moderate lane desperately searching for someone other than Biden, and then in the general he barely beat Trump in an election that should have been a cake walk.
What are you talking about? Biden beat by 6million votes. He got the blue wall plus Arizona and Georgia of all places.
Obama won by 10 million votes in 2008, and he wasn't up against an incumbent with a (until Biden) historically low approval rating and in the middle of a crisis he was failing. Before the Democratic primary even started 56% of voters said they were definitely going to vote against Trump. Biden's 6 million votes were by running up numbers in safe states, not a convincing electoral victory. The actual difference between winning and losing was 44k votes. Less than what would have flipped 2016 (80k), so unless you're going to call Trump vs. Clinton a solid victory, Biden's was a squeaker in an election that shouldn't have been close.
Still? My friend, clearly you do not live in Texas. Land of the "local control ... no wait, not that local."