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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he violated immigration law, would that mean that his citizenship was granted on false grounds?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Because they think that he will hurt people that they've been led to hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It shouldn't mean lower prices; deflation is bad, we just want a low rate of inflation. What we do want is for wages to outpace that, and for the past couple of years, they have for people at the lower end of the scale (which is also good)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's a really interesting test of how much conventional campaigning and turnout strategies really matter nowadays.

Quite a bit of what we do is because "we've always done it this way," and there's surprisingly little data on what actually makes a difference in an election at this level where both of the candidates are universally known.

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

I'd start by assuming that he's either being paid somehow for suddenly supporting TikTok or if there's something else in it for him. With trump, usually "it's grift" is the likely explanation for many things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fedora is the best thing ever to be in the world 🌎

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course, but I don't think that him as the VP candidate changes the odds of that much relative to the other contenders who don't come with that risk.

VP candidates don't usually matter much in an election unless they're freaks with a couch fetish or something weird like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Assuming Harris wins, the first midterm federal election is usually ugly for the president's party, so it'd be a risk. Especially coming off of this election where dems will have to be extremely lucky just to hold onto the majority (even with the vp tiebreaker).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not hard to have "unity" when they've worked to purge anyone from the party who disagreed with the cult.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If Biden drops out of the race, the candidate would be Harris. He'd resign, endorse Harris, and it'd get confirmed at the convention. The only "fresh new, younger face" would be the VP pick.

I'm not saying that's a problem, but the idea that that an open floor battle at the convention would be a good idea is nuts, and just discarding the sitting VP like that would probably shatter the democratic coalition.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ahem, Bush v Gore... bit longer than a decade. They're certainly more shameless now that they have a larger margin, but republican justices have been pushing an agenda for awhile.

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