News Biden Drops from the U.S Presidential Race

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    Trump pushed a rhetoric that Joe Biden had fallen apart mentally and was no longer fit to be president. To whatever extent of truth this had - who knows. His verbal ability had declined on the public stage and this only fed into it. Trump led a meticulous campaign attack and I think it's best to consider that with whoever they endorse. (as of now, biden has endorsed Harris to run in his place, yet no other democrats have publicly).

    Simply outperforming him on political stances will not be enough. Whoever they elect will have to avoid sinking into aggressive verbal exchanges. Considering Trump is a politician who will play victim and twist this into another 'bullied by the establishment' ordeal. Which had been integral in his 2016 victory.

    It's going to be a gamble either way. Historically incumbent presidents are at an advantage for elections. So my feelings are mixed on his exit.

    I'm interested in anybody else who has thoughts on these events.
     
    It's a historic move, but probably for the best for Biden. We all sorta knew his mindspace wasn't at the right place since that horrible debate. I'm curious what the DNC will do when that time comes to confirm a nominee.
     
    I honestly think he made the right decision, there just isn't a realistic path to victory for Biden after a horrific debate performance validated the image of him as a dementia-addled moron and Trump becoming a martyr through his attempted assassination within the span of 3 weeks. If this had all happened in like September, he might have been able to recover, but we're only ~4 months out from the election, and Biden's age has already been an albatross around the Dems neck for years at this point. Biden was a good, safe candidate in 2020 when Trump and COVID were ravaging the nation; but it's been 4 years and the political calculus has changed. Him dropping out must have been one of the hardest decisions of his life, but I'm glad he realized the writing on the wall before it was too late and bowed out.
     
    It was the right thing for him to do, at this point he was going to be an easy opponent for Trump. It'll probably still be an uphill battle for whoever ends up being the Democrat nominee (likely Harris atm), but at least they'll have slightly better odds than Biden did. Nevermind that we really should stop letting people hold positions of power when they've clearly gotten to an incredibly poor cognitive condition. The average age of American politicians has gotten high, and we could really use less Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein in our government.

    But it's important to understand that there was plenty of reason before the past few weeks to not want him to be a candidate, his obvious mental deterioration was just the cherry on top. And most Democrats, or at least the ones that ever have any real chance at winning elections in large numbers, share a lot of the problems that Biden has.
     
    I've never liked Biden much (he was my third-least favorite of the 2020 primary candidates), so I'm excited to vote for a candidate this year rather than merely against Trump. And though Harris wasn't my first choice, I still think she'd be a great president, and I'm wishing her the best in her presidential campaign.
     
    Not too happy about Harris being the replacement for Biden.... But you never know maybe something good will happen
     
    Biden needed to go. His physical and mental capabilities have deteriorated too badly to win an election. A lot of us are also not happy with the way the country has been run, it's not just the optics of him being old and sick, the prices of everything (except wages) keep going up, he's getting us involved in wars we don't want to be in and did too little late as this antiquated Supreme court system took away right after right from us.

    I think Kamala's chances aren't as bad as Biden's against Trump, having the advantage of being younger and healthier than either, making Trump's age and fitness the only one in question now. She also brings some element of disruption since the Republicans don't appear to have fully developed a strategy for the event of this happening, and are just name calling, in the absence of having persuasive arguments on their side.

    I will not vote for Trump, but not sure yet whether to support her instead, or a third party candidate. The reason I'm on the sidelines is because I'm mostly hearing platitudes from her, and not detail about what she would do differently than Biden. To get my vote she must be prepared to reject Biden's policy of sending weapons to Netenyahu as he commits crimes against humanity. If there's hope of an arms embargo then I am willing to overlook some of the wrongdoing from when she was prosecutor and some of her Wall Street backers, but I need more evidence of changes before I commit.
     
    I didn't see the debate, but I heard he fumbled it and Trump (who is only like 2 years younger than Biden) has always spread the rhetoric that Biden is too old/senile. The assassination attempt only elevated him and made people feel sorry for him. Plus Biden has COVID too.

    I'm not American but I think it was for the best. He'll heal better if he isn't stressed about more debates/having to attend rallies.

    Idk what kind of person Harris is. I've never paid attention to her.
     
    It honestly will probably swing the election. Trump's base will vote for him regardless and the large bulk of liberals will vote for the Dems regardless of who the nominee is. It's the smaller demographics that will decide it. Neither will appeal to the left, though the left are more likely to vote dem out of damage control, both are unappealing to Libertarians (and it's really that demographic who denied Trump a second term in the first place since they switched from him to Jo Jorgensen in the swing states Trump needed). Those are probably the two biggest organised voting blocs outside of the republican and democrat loyals and neither really can rely on either supporting them. Instead it'll likely come down to whoever can convince the fence sitters among the centrists that they'd be more fit for office.

    Trump seemingly already was very aware of this, which is why he was so heavily pushing Biden's age and cognitive stability as his main attack line. He cannot rely on that with almost any other politician and will now look older and unstable himself in comparison to someone like Harris, which isn't a great look for him after pushing the angle of age and mental lucidity so heavily himself.
     
    Now that Kamala chose Tim Walz as a vice president I have decided that I will vote for her with him on this ticket, after looking at his record as governor of Minnesota. With a 1 seat majority he got tax rebates for people making less than 150,000 dollars a year, approved a voting rights act including automatic voter registration and rights restoration for people who had convictions, enacted universal gun background checks and red flag laws, created unions for nursing home workers to improve their pay and protections, gave Minnesotans paid family and sick leave, provided apprenticeship programs to help workers develop new skills, legalized marijuana, funded a popular new mass transport, banned gay conversion therapy, required health plans to cover medically necessary gender affirming care, made Minnesota a safe haven state that protects trans patients and providers who are refuges from other states, banned medical debt, codified abortion rights into law, granted universal free school meals to kids, 2.2 billion dollars into funding for grades K-12, signed legislation preventing books from being banned, made college free, banned forever chemicals, invested in green energy infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging stations, ebike tax credits and mandated the state's electricity be 100% carbon free by 2040.

    I think he is a good choice, because he is firing up progressives but also seems like he can get centrist support, seeing how he erased his state's deficit, leaving a surplus over 3 billion dollers and made Minnesota one of the top 5 states in the country for businesss, so he can show that he is "fiscally-responsible" to people who say we can't afford these things. He will also be hard to successfully smear as some extremist, with his background as as commander sgt major in the army, and appears to have crossover appeal having been elected to congress in a rural republican leaning district that went for Trump by 15 or 20 points, and won despite being a Democrat, and defeated an incumbent republican. He knows how to explain policies in a way that is disarming, and is making a case to people in these areas about how policies of Trump and Vance have devastated the midwest, in a way that the same constituents might not listen to if Kamala were to say it.
     
    Tbh, this was for the best. I am not sure if Kamala will win, but I hope with her pick for vp she might have a chance.
     
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