It’s hard to imagine someone’s been active on Lemmy for a year and didn’t know that…

As the party’s elder statesman

That’s almost 20 years younger than Biden…

And why would he think Biden is competent?

Staying silent is already wrong…

Pelosi’s office in a statement said she had not spoken to Biden since returning to California on Friday — and questioned the reporting about her conversation with the president. “These sources are not good sources,” her spokesperson said.

Schiff said that by bowing out, Biden would “secure his legacy of leadership by allowing us to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming election.”

Schiff is a prominent Democrat on his own, and his statement will also be watched because of his proximity to Pelosi.

It was Pelosi who revived questions about Biden post-debate, when she said recently that “it’s up to the president” to decide what to do — even though Biden had already fully stated he had no intention of stepping aside. The former House speaker publicly supports the president, but has fielded calls from Democrats since debate night questioning what’s next.

It says a lot the only officials saying Biden should stay in…

Are people he’s appointed to positions of power, and would likely be replaced by the new candidates people.

Biden and his team are after personal power, not fighting fascism.

Doesn’t even have to be a phone call…

He just has to draw a line in the sand and say Israel gets no more weapons till they’re on the right side of the line.

Obama did it. Biden said it was dumb, but it worked.

Now Biden isn’t doing it, and Israel went on a full on genocide.

But Biden will never under any circumstances do it, so Israel knows as long as Biden is in office they can do whatever they want.

trump would want money/favors/praise, and if push comes to shove, he’ll abandon them in an instant if he thought it would be better for trump or if Putin told him to.

I don’t see why it shouldn’t be Kelly instead of Harris then…

Either as Bidens VP if we’re stuck with him, or as president if we can get rid of Joe.

…

Not for her to be a candidate. But waiting to see if she also says Biden needs to step down.

and DNC tries to be a welcoming big tent,

As long as you agree 100% with the DNC…

They have a poor record with people protesting how rightwing the DNC has been moving for decades…

And Obama still flipped a bunch of solid red states and carried downballot races there too.

We didn’t need them then and we don’t need them now.

Like, if we just kept running young (under 50) charismatic candidates with progressive sounding campaigns wed be set.

People want to pretend Bill and Barrack weren’t two of our youngest presidents or that they didn’t run progressive campaigns. That’s what the voters want, that’s what works, so that’s what we should give them.

Instead the party keeps using trump as an excuse to run candidates no one wants like Joe and Hillary.

It’s fucking insane. Like if you’re in a life or death free throw competition so you shoot blindfolded. It doesn’t matter if your opponent is so bad you might still win, it’s too big of a risk to be fucking around.

We called them Pumas in 2008, but it’s the same people.

For those not aware, PUMA was the movement Hillary’s team started. It was Party Unity My Ass, and was trying to get Dems to vote against Obama in the general in an attempt to show progressivism wasn’t popular and the party needed to move right.

It didn’t work, but they were always going to say the party had to move right anyways. Doesn’t matter what happens, they’re gonna keep saying it.

https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/23/preston.puma/

They’re rarely rational and if you question any of their talking points they start screeching insults.

They showed back up in 2016, I don’t know why people act like they’re a new thing now. They’re like fucking cicadas, every 8 years or so they show up and make a shit ton of annoying noise. Then after the election they seem to disappear overnight

“A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November,” he continued.

Oh man…

Adam Schiff better be ready for a bunch of social media accounts to tell him how he doesn’t know anything about politics…

The one Biden appointed and who is openly going against voter wishes and saying we have to push Biden thru so he keeps the chair at the DNC?

Well, then…

/s

Like, you realized your linked tweet is him trying to defend his move from every legal and political expert not part of the DNC is saying?

I don’t think facts or logic is going to help anything here.

Well, I could go with what legal experts, the media, and political experts say…

Or I could trust a random social media accounts interpretation…

Give me a while to decide which is more likely to be a subject matter expert on this

Nope, they’re pretty much over trump.

The danger is they vote against Biden.

Can you just stop for a minute, look at a calendar, then try to explain to me how they can reschedule something from 8/7/2024 to 8/31/2024 on 9/1/2024?

Cool. So there’s still be time if they pull shit?

Sounds like there’s still no reason

There is literally zero reason to do this now that Ohio moved their deadline…

Just as dumb as when Beto said it before his election…

It’ll never pass, and he thinks saying it will get votes, but all it does is motivate idiots to vote trump, even tho he actually did an executive action to try and close a loophole.

It might not have stood, but it worked for a couple of years.

Yep.

I’m in a red state full of Trumpers.

It doesn’t even feel like an election year. There’s no signs or new bumper stickers like the last two. But they all still hate Biden.

A lot of people are just voting against the other candidate this year.

The new survey from The Times/SAY24 found Biden trailing Trump in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The closest races, according to the polls, were in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

It’s weird going red once in decades makes states a “battleground”…

An average Dem would be a lock in some of those states. But the last three elections we keep running candidates no one wants

It’s like the party so how popular Obama was and decided to just do the opposite of everything people liked about him