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For real though, who do the Dems run after Biden? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought that during the 2020-2024 interim the Democrats were supposed to be building someone up for the next generation of the party. To no one's surprise, they've been doing exactly fuck-all for four years - but, for insiders who actually care about the party's future, who are they hanging their hat on? Voters' confidence in Kamala has tanked; Cuomo was maybe their man until the sexual harassment charges hit (side question: how was he able to skate on the nursing home scandal?). But anyway, who's the next empty neoliberal they'll run in future elections?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean, if I were in some kind of monkey's paw situation where I was put in charge of the democrats but I had to ignore my ideology and just put in someone who could win, there are actually a couple of really solid electoral options. The upper midwestern states that Trump won in 2016 have popular democratic governors, notably Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan and Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania. Shapiro even got some good press for handling a bridge collapse really competently. Other than that, Raphael Warnock is a Georgia senator who's won multiple tough re-election campaigns despite being dragged down by that moronic grifter Stacy Abrams. Mark Kelly is a senator from Arizona who's a former astronaut and won a tough re-election.

The thing about this moment is that it should be really easy for mainstream democratic party liberals to just sweep the whole country and ride to the White House because of Dobbs/Trump being incredibly unpopular/Republicans being loathsome and unappealing and getting more unappealing all the time. The problem for them is squarely on Biden.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

that moronic grifter Stacy Abrams

How dare you besmirch the President of Earth!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Gretchen Whitmer - woman
Josh Shapiro - Jewish
Raphael Warnock - Black, bald
Mark Kelly - bald

Your faith in Amerikkkans is interesting, but we all know how the hogs will respond to these choices (or what response will be fed to them by the media they consume, anyway).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They elected Obama twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Best you will get is your grandma's favorite person belonging to (at most!) one marginalized category.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

These are all good candidates (from a lib perspective)...exactly why the Democratic party won't do it.