Congratulations Kamala Harris for winning the presidency.
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I would be very cautious about what to expect from the Democratic Party. My suspicion is that they decided "safety first" and viewed Biden as the ultimate safe pair of moderate hands to put against Trump's chaos, incompetence and rancour. Perhaps in a sense it worked because he did indeed win.
But they must also look at the alarmingly narrow margin, the failure to dent the Republican Senate lead and lost House seats, and know something is also badly wrong. There will be blood in the water in the Democratic Party, and I would expect after the inevitable feeding frenzy of investigations and recriminations, a substantial number of policies will be changed and personnel repaced through the next 6-12 months.
People have their own minds and own instincts and inclinations, but a lot of politicians can be quite... flexible. If the analysts and strategists go away and think the Democrats need a more progressive policy plan, that's what Biden and or Harris will move towards.
Anyone anyone? Like, some random stereotypical loser could be sitting on the couch and get a knock at the door and suddenly move into the White House?
That sounds like a terrible idea for a sitcom. Especially if they learn some life lessons at the end of an episode they've forgotten before the start of the next one.
Anyone DNC picks and agrees on.
Your idea reminded me of this fun movie:
Swing Vote (2008 film) - Wikipedia
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Honestly, gonna be the contrarian here and say Biden will probably last all four years. If Trump made it, I don't see why he couldn't.
While I don't think The DNC put Biden in because they intend to have Biden go down (either naturally or through something like the 25th if his mental functions begin to deteriorate) , I LOL'ed so now you can all LOL.
It's not impossible Biden might pull out and hand over to Harris just so she can run 2024 as incumbent. I certainly expect she will be kept busy and at the forefront of things so they can portray her as a leader-in-waiting.
Oh I don't think it's zero that Biden doesn't make it 4 years. I just don't think he was chosen specifically for them to take him out before his 4 years are up. They'd be content with him or Harris in charge and will be running Harris as "the incumbent" in 4 years no matter what.
The DNC isn't stupid so I'm sure they have it planned out in case he doesn't make it, I just don't buy into the conspiracy theory that he is President for The DNC to swap out with Harris ASAP.
I think you might want to wait until the Biden administration starts its drone strikes and they kill a bunch of innocent civilians who owned a camel or two. Shouldn't be long.
Well, funny thing. If Trump does precipitously withdraw forces from Afghanistan by mid-January, he arguably does Biden a favour: he removes that ongoing, weeping sore of a problem from leaking pus all over Biden's presidency as well, whilst also taking the blame for everything that may subsequently go wrong because the troops were withdrawn.