Biden camp warns Trump could still get re-elected with ‘unhinged campaign of revenge’
President Biden has refrained from commenting on Trump’s case thus far
So you can be the president if you're a felon but felons can't vote?
Yup. Authoritarians often criminalize their opponents to prevent them from running, like Putin did to Navalny. Even if banning felons from office could have positive effects, it's also a dangerous flaw that bad actors in power could exploit to maintain their power.
As to the first part, yes. If the founders had blocked federal office due to a felony conviction, just imagine the clusterfuck. 200+ years of anyone and everyone trying to get a conviction, of any kind, on their opponents.
Same thing goes for the second part. It's a roundabout way to block federal representation of certain groups of people. This is why automatically being blocked to vote because of a conviction shouldn't be a thing. As you say that would (and does) lead to a clusterfuck.
The basic idea being people wouldn't elect a felon.
Hold America's collective beers.
It's already started over in Twitter. MAGA Cultists are already thinking that America has 'died' lol.
Don't mistake this, he will now do anything and everything to win the election. It's his only chance of avoiding prison. Cornered rat and all that -- it's more important than ever to get out the vote.
Some 10% to 27% of Americans, depending on whom you ask, want the full Trump program: mass executions of liberals, bans on contraception and homosexuality, Christian nationalism, the whole Unified Reich thing, and plenty of opportunities to denounce annoying neighbours/coworkers/acquaintances as “woke” and have then taken away. Another 10-20% are low-information voters who “aren’t political”, but know, from news headlines, that things are in some way not going well, and based on vibes, believe it’s time for a change of administration. Being nonpolitical, they don’t care who replaces Biden, as long as it’s someone else, and of course, don’t understand Duverger’s Law and the Electoral College and thus don’t see why it couldn’t be literally anyone else.
You're forgetting a decent subset. Ones who are informed but would rather vote 3rd party, which due to not having Teddy Roosevelt won't do shit, rather than vote for either of these guys
Ones who are informed but would rather vote 3rd party
Or not at all. The Biden first term has been deeply depressing and demotivating. At some point, people have to live their lives and can't be entirely subsumed in politics.
If they're struggling to make rent, if they can't get health care after picking up the Long COVID or caring for a relative to did, if they're still crippled by student debts that never got relieved, if they've got loved ones abroad or in border detention centers who are being brutalized by US foreign policy, if they can't afford a new car because Biden just slapped a giant tariff in cheap new imports, or who are simply too overworked and underpaid to afford the luxury of a political fixation, I can see people tuning out this election cycle as another media circus.
If Biden's truly changing the lives of millions of people with his public policy, maybe none of that will matter. Maybe there will be legions of staunch Biden-heads bellying up to the polls in support of their savior. But I see a step gulf between what Democrats say is happening and what people sick of this administration are experiencing. I suspect that gulf will be what sinks him in November.
duverger's "law" is a useless tautology.
Joe Biden only won by like 43,000 votes across swing states in the electoral college. This journey is not over
It's wild to think he's willing to potentially lose to a literal felon just to protect a genocidal right-wing zealot.
It would be the most final indictment of neoliberalism one could imagine.
i think he's betting on the pro-isreal-no-matter-what people who vote more reliably for the establishment than the left-leaning young who usually don't vote for the establishment.
the later is a is chicken and egg problem because there's not much reason for a progressive to vote for a centrist, so the centrist doesn't try to reach out to the progressives; cementing a lack of votes from progressives for a centrist.
Do not underestimate how badly bigots want Trump to get rid of gays, transgenders and stoners.
Dem turnout is depressed and fascists are a hill of kicked ants. Its 2002 all over again.
Get all your not voting and apethetic friends to vote. Have a ballot party if your state does mail-in still.
I'm not voting for President for a very simple reason: I don't live in a swing state, so it's objectively a waste of time for me, lol.
This is true for the majority of US citizens. As long as we have an Electoral College system, it will remain true.
Ranked choice voting would be nice, too, to keep third parties from being anything other than spoilers.
If the Biden campaign thought that hish payment felonies were going to cost Trump the election, then they haven't been paying attention for the last 10 years
Brandon definitely has his game hat on. Doesn't matter what the distractions say or do. Get tf out and vote.
...Did they just figure this out now?
Biden needs to refer to the turnip as his felonious opponent from here on out.
I really wouldn't be surprised if Biden pardoned Trump after the election to "help the nation heal", sadly.
Yes but if TFG gets elected, what happens to Biden?
They are not the same.
Oh if Trump wins, I fully expect Biden to be in cuffs or publicly executed, depending on how much power his Supreme Court hands him... either a lot or a fuckton
Fuck
Maybe if Biden wasn't a piece of shit he could get more voters?
A lot of people voted for Biden because they were horrified by what Trump was doing, things like the border prisons. Nothing fundamentally changed, they were just rebranded.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump is now a convicted felon — but that won’t stop his “unhinged” bid for another four years in the White House, President Joe Biden’s campaign warned voters Thursday night.
In a statement issued not long after a New York City jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said the verdict against the felonious ex-president vindicated the American system of justice.
Tyler added that Trump has never been a greater threat to American democracy, citing his “increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution,” his pledge to be a dictator on the first day of his term if elected, and his calls to “terminate” the US constitution as a way for him to “regain and keep power”.
A spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, Ian Sams, issued a statement stating the following: “We respect the rule of law, and have no additional comment.”
But the strong statement from Biden’s campaign is an indicator that he and his surrogates will not shy away from describing Trump as a convicted felon, even as he runs to regain his former position as president.
The case against Trump, which was based on his falsification of business records to conceal a hush money scheme meant to cover up a sexual affair from voters in order to win the 2016 election, was considered the least serious of the four cases against him, which include two sets of federal charges stemming from his alleged unlawful retention of national defense information and his alleged effort to illegally remain in office despite losing the 2020 election.
The original article contains 551 words, the summary contains 267 words. Saved 52%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
He can't get re-elected without moderates.
They just left, and screaming bloody murder at them isn't going to get them back.
‘unhinged campaign of revenge’
is how I would describe Israel's actions in Gaza with Biden's full support
If he wins, just ignore it and have Democrats rule anyway. This NEEDS to be done for America to be safe from neo-nazis.
The good ol’ I’m not my opponent so vote for me strategy. Let’s see how that plays out for them.
By not voting they support all of it.
You have to recognize how absurdly fucked this logic is, right? "You have to vote for the guy currently in office who is actively supporting and supplying genocide or else you support genocide."
I'm not saying don't vote, but I am saying that if you want to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you then you need to find a different tactic.
Or you know, maybe people staying home because they can’t support a genocide, the death of the nation or the comedy option of a dude who cheated on his wife so hard, while on heroin, as worms died in his brain of mercury poisoning…
I'm glad you have such a privileged life that you can afford to make such choices. Good for you! But many of us are not in that position and are really counting on not having an authoritarian regime hell bent on erasing us.
