• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    All the media have to do is cover Trump relatively honestly and he will do the rest to sink his presidential campaign.

    In 2016 the media were so gaga over his norm breaking and other wackiness and everyone assumed Hillary was a sure thing compared to him, they didn’t actually cover him honestly.

    Plus he could let people just project whatever hopes and dreams they had on him. He had no governmental experience at any level to investigate and draw conclusions from. He convinced a lot of people that he would fight for them, and Hillary had no really solid counter to all that. Plus the DOJ threw the in-person voting to Trump.

    This time we know basically all there is to know about what a second Trump term would be like. Chaos, petty revenge, and burning the Constitution. If Democrats can take that clear and the media can look past all the dollar signs for a second, any half decent candidate on the Democratic ticket will win. Any candidate who can legitimately claim to be for working people and against the elites.

    So like a Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, John Fetterman, or Elizabeth Warren. I’d say Bernie but he’s probably too old. Brown and Fetterman would do really well bringing large so called “purple” states in.

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      1 year ago

      Trump is still polling within reach of a win, and that’s after 4 years of President Trump, an attempted coup, and three more years of the criminal prosecutions that followed.

    • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world
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      I love John Fetterman, but he did have a mild stroke and spent a month in treatment for depression while in office. He’s great, but I don’t think he is President material. I don’t hold either of those things against him, and mental health is important, but no way do you convince the public that all is fine

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      Funnily enough, I had this conversation with some friends that Taylor Swift would probably sweep the electoral college. Highly popular, progressive, white (to get a few of the Republican voters whose vote is base on the way their rep looks), and has a fan base that can potentially outmatch MAGA if her name was on the ballot.

      Whether she would be a successful politician, on the other hand, can be cleared by the fact that we survived 4 years of Trump. So it can’t be worse than that fiasco.

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        And then she’d make her turn to the right once she met the political machine’s real force.

        I’m categorically against rich people in high public offices.

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      With John Stewart as VP. He said he doesn’t want to be president but VP? Let’s fuckin goooo

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    A six year old child should be able to defeat Trump. At least in all forms of debate and intelligence tests.

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      Id bet fetterman would probably die before Biden with all his heart problems.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    If he isn’t I’d imagine it’s a short list of other contenders that have the electoral width Biden can hypothetically pull from

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    1 year ago

    Jeff Merkley, progressive 3-term senator who takes common sense positions even when controversial, e.g. calling for a ceasefire in Gaza weeks ago

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    The problem with someone like Dean is that time and time again, the average American has shown themselves to be embarrassingly uninformed when it comes to politics, and so the incumbent president has a huge advantage just by having their name be recognizable and their butt already in the chair.