• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Then name a name.

    Who has that kind of charisma and name recognition, with no baggage, that they can storm in like the Koolaid man and take this election?

    No? Yeah, I didn’t think so. You have been shitting on Biden every thread, even non-Biden related posts, for this entire election year and have never offered an alternative.

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      4 months ago

      You’d have to be blind not to see the news articles dropping names for the past few weeks.

      Whitmer

      Newsom

      Shapiro

      Walz

      Buttigieg

      Generic Democrat

      Even Harris polls better than Biden

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        Whitmer, Shaprio, Walz, Buttigieg all don’t have the nationwide name recognition needed to hit the ground running with so little time before elections.

        Newsom only has name recognition because the Right has been demonizing him for years because they recognized him as a threat. We’d just have a repeat of Hillary.

        I’m not saying that these wouldn’t make decent candidates in a normal Primary time frame. But it would spell disaster to pivot to any of these candidates this late in the race.

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          Four months is not “so little time”. And I agree that Shapiro and Walz have branding issues, but 4 months, the entire news media and DNC war chest would be enough to solve that. Newsom doesn’t have nearly the baggage Hillary had either. Hillary had baggage going back to 1992. Newsom has baggage from ~5 years ago? At that point there’s no one qualified to run, not even Biden.

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            4 months ago

            It’s short enough time that a new nominee would literally be disqualified from the ballot in some states.

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              The only state that requires certification before the convention is Ohio. A state we aren’t counting on and have little to no chance to win unless we suddenly run Reagan 2.0.

              There’s 49 other states that would still be in play, including all of the normal blue states and swing states.