The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the president’s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whether Joe Biden was going to endorse Kamala Harris or not. And the question didn’t revolve around whether he wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh start going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

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[–] 189 points 2 years ago (53 children)

He’s already trying to weasel out of the next debate. He’s scared.

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  • [–] 141 points 2 years ago (49 children)

    Can you blame him? Kamala was a District Attorney and an Attorney General. Even a competent opponent who based their arguments on facts would be intimidated.

    Trump wouldn’t stand a chance on that stage.

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  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    And if he ducks out hopefully she'll call him a coward. Repeatedly.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    She should start calling him a coward before they start negotiation. He can't stand women talking crap about him. A woman of color, he'd have a canary.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    A canary in the old mind, that's how the saying goes

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hope that Harris (or whoever) goes WAY more on the offensive than Biden did. Honestly I think that's where his age showed the most sharply; he was just too nice, even when he was "Dark Brandon."

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    IDK, considering the MAGA crowd consider Trump lies better than facts, because everybody know by now, that facts have a liberal bias.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    the fight is not for maga votes, it is for the undecided morons in the middle.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    The undecided will be gaslighted too. Are you really sugesting Trump would try to use reason to sway the undecided?
    Trump has only one mode, and that's narcissistic pathological liar.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you really sugesting Trump would try to use reason to sway the undecided?

    no, i am suggesting that primary goal of democratic candidate is not to go after maga voters.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    He needs to capture his base too, and make sure as many of them as possible will vote, without them the marginal voters are irrelevant.
    Trump will use stupid arguments and lies, and look like he is winning. That's how he built the MAGA crowd, and that's the system he will continue to use.
    The undecided he manages to convince to vote for him, will then be supporting MAGA by definition, even if they aren't as batshit crazy as the hardcore MAGA supporters.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I vaguely remember her debate against Mike pence, her performance was not to impressive. The fly helped. I wonder if they will let her a bit looser on the pedo

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