There’s a lot of blame to go around, but nobody is going to tell a sitting President they can’t run again. It was Biden’s call and he ultimately made that call too late for any other candidate to have a successful run.
Once Harris was tapped, there’s now evidence Biden hampered her campaign as well:
It’s not “the dems” fault, it’s Biden’s fault. First, for not stepping down early enough for a proper primary, 2nd, for having a comatose debate performance, 3rd, for failing to recognize the economic pain the US public was going through, 4th, for claiming credit for policies that had no effect on the public at large, and 5th for insisting Harris not separate herself from his failed policies.
Someone should have sat him down and told him the economy sucks, people are hurting, and the policies you got passed haven’t done anything yet. But he still stood up repeatedly and basically said “What’s the matter, Jack? Economy is great!” while the public was “3% inflation on top of 3% inflation on top of 6% inflation in top of 9% inflation…”
That failure of recognition tanked his campaign and not allowing Harris to differentiate herself tanked hers.
She should have told him “No, your ideas are why you aren’t in the race anymore, I’m doing something different.” Instead she said, on live television, she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently. That’s the point when she lost, nail in the coffin right there.
Come on you can’t be this naive. Biden stepped down because dems made him, despite what you wrote,
What does it mean to not allow Harris to differentiate from his campaign? Or what? Harris made the choice to not differentiate from the Biden campaign. She’s an adult and an unpopular candidate who should own her mistakes.
No, she didn’t have to stick with Biden. She chose to. Again, what would have happened had she taken her distances from Biden after having secured the nomination?
There’s a lot of blame to go around, but nobody is going to tell a sitting President they can’t run again. It was Biden’s call and he ultimately made that call too late for any other candidate to have a successful run.
Once Harris was tapped, there’s now evidence Biden hampered her campaign as well:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/
It’s not “the dems” fault, it’s Biden’s fault. First, for not stepping down early enough for a proper primary, 2nd, for having a comatose debate performance, 3rd, for failing to recognize the economic pain the US public was going through, 4th, for claiming credit for policies that had no effect on the public at large, and 5th for insisting Harris not separate herself from his failed policies.
Someone should have sat him down and told him the economy sucks, people are hurting, and the policies you got passed haven’t done anything yet. But he still stood up repeatedly and basically said “What’s the matter, Jack? Economy is great!” while the public was “3% inflation on top of 3% inflation on top of 6% inflation in top of 9% inflation…”
That failure of recognition tanked his campaign and not allowing Harris to differentiate herself tanked hers.
She should have told him “No, your ideas are why you aren’t in the race anymore, I’m doing something different.” Instead she said, on live television, she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently. That’s the point when she lost, nail in the coffin right there.
Come on you can’t be this naive. Biden stepped down because dems made him, despite what you wrote,
What does it mean to not allow Harris to differentiate from his campaign? Or what? Harris made the choice to not differentiate from the Biden campaign. She’s an adult and an unpopular candidate who should own her mistakes.
If she wanted the candidacy, she had to stick with Biden. Read the article.
No, she didn’t have to stick with Biden. She chose to. Again, what would have happened had she taken her distances from Biden after having secured the nomination?
Her entire campaign was Biden people and Biden money, she towed the line or lost that with no time to build her own support.
Remember: 30 days to the convention. 108 days to the election. Piss off Biden, lose all his people and all his money. Good luck with the election!
She had control over the money. https://hls.harvard.edu/today/can-kamala-harris-access-biden-campaign-funds/
Which doesn’t help when the staff and money gets pulled. I swear, it’s like you do not have the first idea how politics works.
Biden was President, you go with what he says or you get cut loose with no time to rebuild on your own.
After dropping from the race Biden no longer had control over the campaign funds.
Besides, even if we were to imagine that Biden could still hypothetically somehow take away the campaign funds, Harris still chose to play ball.