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Joe Biden ends election campaign and endorses Kamala Harris to be new nominee

www.bbc.co.uk Joe Biden ends election campaign and endorses Kamala Harris to be new nominee

Joe Biden drops out of presidential race against Donald Trump, endorsing Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the new Democratic nominee.

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Harris is a cop, Trump is a felon.
- Everybody simultaneously forgetting ACAB
  
  Reminder that even though All Cops Are Bastards, the chief executive oversees the executive branch and so every president is a cop regardless.
- I don't think anyone in America knows what an actual communist is. Sometimes it seems the US thinks us Europeans are all collectivist class warriors.
  
  Not that I disagree, but how is this pertinent to the comment you replied to?
So now there is only one old guy running and who has been found to be a rapist, a fraud and an adulterer.
- Don't forget felon
  
  And, unfortunately, cult leader.
- As if that ever changed anyone's opinion. Trump could literally kill someone and anyone who was going to vote for him before would still vote for him.
- There already has been only one of those.
Maybe the Dems can win, after all!
Why do I get the feeling that there will be another political assassination in America soon .... and why do I have a feeling that this one will be successful.

The more American political history I read, the more I feel like America is just another country like every other including third world developing nations who just happen to own the largest economy and the biggest military.
- Technically, China has already surpassed US in economic terms when measuring in terms of purchasing power. And I'd argue that most of the economy in US is centred on fictitious capital anyways.
  
  I reckon you are about to find out pretty soon
  
  And you think China isn’t, with their tofu-dreg projects that everyone buys as in investment but no one actually lives in?
- I couldn't agree more
- I couldn't disagree more
Why not step back and let Kamala take the helm for the rest of his term?

Is that even possible, and would that even benefit Kamala?
- Let her focus on campaigning. She has 3.5 years of catching up to do.
  
  She also gets to shirk at least some of the burden of the Afghan pullout and the Palestinian genocide, we should marry as much as we can of those issues to Biden and Biden alone.
  
  No, the Afghan pull out was a policy of the Trump administration. Biden just didn't overturn it when he became president. He followed through.
- Let's say Biden steps down, Harris becomes President now. Then a Vice President needs to be nominated by her and accepted by both Houses of Congress to fill that role. You think the MAGAs in the House will approve of anyone remotely reasonable? So there's no Vice President, no one to break ties if they happen in the Senate, and Speaker of the House Johnson is next in line, putting a big incentive for the terrorist party to take her out to get one of their own at the top.
- It could actually really damage her. She gets all the responsibility and none of the time to maneuver the actual policies of the country. This way she can trade on Biden's work and throw him under the bus where needed. For example if they need more progressives to turn out she could say nice things about Asylees.
- I think he probably sees a difference in serving out seven months and doing a full 4 year term. Do you think after 3 and a half years as VP she can benefit from 6 months in charge versus fighting the actual election?
  
  Depends on her exposure in the media.
- I think it would behoove her to at least step up her public presence now, but it hardly matters when her opponent is already such a garbage specimen.
Oh man. This feels like 2016 all over again. I would've hoped they had learned some lessons but... nope. Godspeed to all of us. We'll need it.
- If you people learned some lessons, 2020 protests would end with revolution.
- The Clintonite establishment insider that the DNC insisted on is stepping aside to help reduce the risk of a Trump presidency. That's exactly the opposite of what Hillary did in 2016.
  
  Clintonite: a "it's still 1992 and always will be" and "the only way to win elections is to alienate two thirds of your own potential base to appease people who are almost but not quite voting for the other party" Dem who loves cops, hates the left, and thinks public protest should be allowed as long as AIPAC and their other owner donors don't mind.
lol and this is following all the so-called "progressives" going out of their way to endorse Biden against the calls for him to drop out. They torched their own image for nothing.
- They endorsed Biden to prevent Trump. That's hardly ignoble.
  
  They endorsed one of the only people that could lose to Trump in this election and they did it for nothing.
  
  Might as well tie themselves to a sinking ship.
- "Torched their own image" in your eyes, but who gives a fuck about that?
  
  Everyone will remember what pathetic little party toadies they were, circling the wagons around the leader while everyone else knew he needed to drop out. Even worse, they did it for nothing! Kamala will remember they didn't support her.

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