• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    To be fair there’s large swaths of the party that want him to step down. It’s his advisors and aligned leadership that insist on running him and these policies no matter what.

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      4 months ago

      A though has just crossed my mind: what if the advisors want him to be there this way and wait till the last moment to say “you know what? Biden steps down [because of his health] and X runs in his place” so Democrat voters can say “we dodged the bullet”.

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        4 months ago

        That moment is now. And that’s not really how politics usually works. It would be incredibly reckless to do such a thing.