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 presidentā€™s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whetherĀ Joe BidenĀ was going to endorseĀ Kamala HarrisĀ or not. And the question didnā€™t revolve around whetherĀ heĀ 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 startĀ 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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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months 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. Thatā€™s how he built the MAGA crowd, and thatā€™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 arenā€™t as batshit crazy as the hardcore MAGA supporters.