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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If they ran Waltz with AOC as VP, it would be a slam dunk.

Hell, if Harris and Waltz had been flipped, it would have been a blowout.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't know literally anything about Waltz but is he that progressive? This is the "Israel has a right to expand its borders" guy so that's unexpected.

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

    Doesn't really matter. The country wasn't at the point where it would have voted for a woman. The US is still extremely misogynistic, as seen by a guy who takes notes from Saudi Arabia winning the popular vote.

    Waltz has a personality that a great many people respond to well, and he's an old white dude. That seems to be the winning ticket these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I won't speak to his personality because again I don't know anything about him, but I don't think being a woman had much to do with Harris losing. If she was a good candidate she'd have won because her opponent was Trump; and if a man with the same positions and attitude had run they'd have lost for the same reasons she lost.

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