I've said it before, I will say it again.
Harris was a terrible choice for the Democratic nomination.
She was a lousy VP who never impressed and accomplished nothing. She ran for the nomination in 2020 to great fanfare and yet dropped out before a single primary due to being disorganized and not having a prayer to win. She was so bad as VP that there was very serious talk a year or so ago about Biden dumping her in favour of a competent VP.
She has very little gravitas going for her and if Biden announced a year ago that he wasn't going to run for a second term, never in a million years would she have won the democratic nomination.
And yet here she is.
I truly thought when Biden quit that the Dems would have an open convention like the good old days. But instead it just seemed like it was blasphemy to even consider that someone other than Harris should have got the nomination. Most telling was that neither Biden nor especially Obama threw their support behind her in a timely fashion. Why the wait?
Bottom line, she is the wrong choice. The Dems should be destroying Trump, but instead, they are faltering. Kamala is the affirmative action candidate and a lot of voters, democrats or not aren't on side with that. When Biden was running and couldnt string 2 sentences together the talk was that if the Dems ran a candidate other than Biden, that candidate would easily destroy Trump. At the time, i wholeheartedly agreed with that notion, but never did i figure that Harris would be that candidate. The democrats should be killing Trump right now, instead Kamala is 4 points behind where Hillary was at this point.
And frankly I blame Biden for for being so vain and not dropping out of the run for 2024 in time to allow a proper primary to democratically pick a strong nominee. And as far as that goes, if you want to look at it with a wide angle lens, Obama blew it in 2016 when he told Biden that he was going to endorse Hillary Clinton and not him. Biden should have been the democratic nominee in 2016, not the corrupt and unlikeable Hillary Clinton. Biden was far more competent than Hillary and he would have defeated Trump in 2016. Instead, Obama told Biden that the decision was made by the powers that be (the DNC) that Hillary was the chosen one and he, Biden, needed to step aside. And the result was Trump and we all know how that worked out.
And now, just like Hillary, we have the Democratic powers that be putting Harris on the ticket. And just like Hillary, she's going to lose to Trump. It blows my mind how fucking stupid the DNC is. And now we are going to have to endure 4 more years of an emboldened maniac.
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