He ran, no one ran against him?
The argument that I found convincing until roughly a couple of days after the debate was:
- Biden’s not as bad as Trump.
- We want anyone who’s not as bad as Trump who can get elected to be the Democratic nominee.
- It’s unlikely anyone other than Biden could win the general election with the disadvantage of being so late to the campaigning game as Biden exiting the race for Democratic nominee now would give them.
- And, yes, Kamala is the presumptive replacement if Biden drops out, but it’s not like she’s not going to have the above-mentioned disadvantage at all. Just maybe less than a random nobody or even anyone well-known and popular on the Democratic side if they don’t have VP experience.
Now, I think Biden’s fucked his own position badly enough that he’s less likely to win the general election than Kamala.
In short:
- He has the incumbent advantage
- He has largely done a good job so far as president compared to presidents that came before him in recent history
- His cabinet has a progressive lean
- Kamala Harris is a pretty decent VP
- A Biden victory could result in further repairing our court system including changing the Supreme Court
Thank you for the answer.
His cabinet has a progressive lean
is there any evidence of this? i hope it’s true, but given that they can’t seem change his mind on genocide; nor affordable green energy products; nor reducing oil production makes me wonder if it matters.
where they also there when biden voted against gay marriage or supported bans on lgbtq in federal service or spearheaded inescapable student loan debt or supported segregationists?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/kamala-harris-gaza-palestinians-00131633
They speak for themselves here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/business/irs-crackdown-wealthy-taxpayers.html
There is more to this, but this administration is famously terrible at communicating their accomplishments. Many of these changes take years to be noticed by the general public, but they’re big victories.
The biggest criticism you can levy against Biden is his stance on Israel. It’s inexcusable.
(https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/kamala-harris-gaza-palestinians-00131633)
ah yes, progress is when you have sympathy for the people you are genociding?
Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing. But voters did give Democrats strong midterms results, driven in part by the Supreme Court’s blow to abortion rights and an aversion to more extreme candidates on the right.
its funny when people google search stuff and just link dump without reading it, as it often contradicts what they are saying.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
most of this is fluff with a couple of socially progressive policies to throw to the left-center, none of it erases the damage the genocide, roe vs wade or the lack of action on the supreme court have done; half of it is just straight up lies in regards to the ecomony and income disparity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/business/irs-crackdown-wealthy-taxpayers.html
this is behind a paywall and im not paying to read the nywarcrimes.
A Biden victory could result in further repairing our court system including changing the Supreme Court
the Supreme Court has under Biden overturned Roe v Wade and ruled that presidents are above the law.
“The solution is Biden in the White House” doesn’t make sense because this happened with Biden in the White House.
You don’t understand my point. We need full democrat control in order to codify roe, pass laws to settle these matters, and expand the court whilst naming liberal justices. Only a democrat can do that, and Biden is the current guy.
pretty decent VP
Say what? How about a silent VP. She’s been useless.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/kamala-harris-gaza-palestinians-00131633
Do your research before you spread misinformation
STFU
Wow, what a mature adult you are. Great job hon. I’m sure your parents are proud of you.
At least I know both my parents. Now, STFU.
You type like a Republican.
He has a record of winning primaries, which every other candidate has not.
He also has a 100% win rate when running against Trump.
Also, presidents don’t usually make their own decisions, they have a team of experts for their decisions. No matter if you’re 80+ he’s demonstrated he can listen and make appropriate decisions.
Also, all the talk about picking a new candidate can be summed up with “of course we should replace Biden with the universally accepted replacement list of 11+ candidates”
So we can’t really come to an agreement of who else it should be, and it seems like Biden has all that is needed. It ain’t broke, it’s just old. And if my 2003 Honda accord is anything to go by, some old things work just fine.
He also has a 100% win rate when running against Trump.
has it happened more than once?
You only need 1/1 win to have a 100% success rate. Statistics can be deceiving.
But since every other candidate has never ran against Trump, that puts them at 0% and anything times 0 is 0, so Biden is infinitely more likely to beat Trump than any other candidate.
That’s not how stats work.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809311013839466846.html
I think this article sums it up well. In short, when the primary actual problem most left wing voters have with him is the issue the media largely ignores in favor of manufactured controversies like his age or his son missing a checkbox in n a government form, it is absurd to think that any other candidate would not quickly have similar controversies made up.
I think a lot of us aren’t voting for Biden, but rather against Trump.
that ignores the question
The answer is: “There isn’t,” hence my original answer.
He’s not Trump.
In all seriousness, The presidency is not a gameshow, decisions don’t have to be made before the buzzer. When you vote for anyone you are actually voting for a team of people not a single individual.
You are voting for ideas you want advanced not just a person. Also, He’s not TrumpWhat is the case in favor of Joe Biden staying in the race/being the Democrat candidate?
He’s the incumbent. And that’s… Well… That’s the largest reason.
The DNC learned a hard lesson when they split the vote in the 1980 election. Jimmy Carter (the incumbent at the time) was running in the primaries against Ted Kennedy. Carter was relatively moderate, while Kennedy was more liberal and wanted to move the party further left.
Carter and Kennedy were pretty closely tied, but Carter actually lost a few primaries. And when Kennedy refused to concede, the party was split. And since the US uses First-Past-The-Post voting, this meant both democrat candidates were weakened by the split vote and Ronald Reagan won the election instead.
So out of fear of splitting the vote, the DNC doesn’t run primaries against an incumbent candidate.
As for other reasons, he has actually been fairly successful as a president. He doesn’t have the stage appeal of a younger candidate, but he has been largely successful in passing legislation that he wanted to pass. Throwback to when Nixon “lost” a debate against JFK, because televisions were still new and Nixon didn’t understand the importance of looking nice. Nixon was sweaty and slovenly, while JFK was polished and clean… So the public perceived JFK as winning the debate, simply because he looked more presidential.
He’s not Trump.
In all seriousness, The presidency is not a gameshow, decisions don’t have to be made before the buzzer. When vote for anyone you are actually voting for a team of people not a single individual.
You are voting for ideas you want advanced not just a person. Also, He’s not Trump
