• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Can you imagine what it would look like if they chose someone like Jon Stewart instead? How a debate like that would have gone? A guy can dream…

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Just anyone with more charisma than a bowl of cold oatmeal.

      If nothing matters except beating trump, why arent we coalescing around a candidate Dem voters want so that we’ll get as much votes against trump as possible

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        4 months ago

        The problem is “a candidate dem voters want” doesn’t have any obvious choices.

        Like Harris isn’t that popular, but the optics of skipping over a black woman when the VP would typically be the heir apparent? You think Gavin Newsom would be a good choice? Californians don’t have a lot of good things to say about him right now. I haven’t seen a lot of other names floated.

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      4 months ago

      The problem is that the DNC would never go for him or anyone like him, because he’s not a blatant neoliberal.

      If they swap, it’ll be someone like Newsom.

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      4 months ago

      I mean yea, but that’s not really fair to him. Being president seems like a terrible burden.