A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Poll

I have never whole heartedly supported the Democratic candidate (because I'm far more left than any of them have ever been), but I've always voted for them, because they're far better than the other option. This time they're just so far better than the other option, not because they are any better, but because the other option is so astoundingly worse. So, I guess, welcome to the club.

But I will say, Biden has been more progressive than any other candidate in my lifetime. Again, that's not saying much, but hey, it's better than nothing. He's just killing himself by supporting Israel.

(Repost of my comment from the same article in another community.)

And that's okay.

As opposed to last time, when I voted for Biden to stop trump

As far as I'm concerned we only have one legitimate party at the moment and that's the one I'm going to vote for.
But, even though Biden isn't nearly as progressive as I'd like, he still beats the brakes off of any other democratic president we've had other than Jimmy Carter, so I wouldn't say he's doing a bad job per se.
If he were running against a "rational" Republican I'd still vote for him, so I wouldn't say I'm motivated solely by my hatred for Trump.

Not me. I’m motivated on making sure myself and all my loved ones get to continue to vote. Stopping Trump and voting for Biden just so happen to line up for that.

One day the USA will get a president that has more to offer than not being his opponent.

At this point, I would say nearly all of them are, but then again, at this point- that’s all the reason one needs.

This is a DIRE situation we are in. It needs to be taken seriously.

I know I am. I mean it it's not like I would vote for any Republican because I have yet to see one that lines up with my philosophy. And since we have a shitty to party system, I can't reasonably expect to be able to have a voice by voting for anybody else, so I have no choice but to compromise by voting for the lesser of two bastards. We seriously need ranked voting in this country so badly. It's not a perfect system, but it's so much better than what we're doing now.

Of course. He'd never win if not for the alternative being a fascist convicted of multiple kinds of fraud.

Hell, he almost didn't the first time around and that was WITHOUT being a willing participant in numerous crimes against humanity!

Im not American but doesnt everyone usually vote to keep the worst out not the best one in?

I generally like Biden and I’m still more motivated by voting against trump. I’m amazed on a daily basis how many ignorant school shooter wannabes roam around here chanting fantasies without any basis in reality convincing themselves that they aren’t culpable if they don’t accept reality.

Yes. Please do be motivated by stopping Trump!

And especially don't be demotivated to go voting because you don't like the alternative.

this is every election since ive been old enough to vote in them

I'm just done "trusting" Republicans in general. Romney seems to be the only one left that has a moral compass (that doesn't just point to "Nazi Jesus"). Even then I don't believe he'd give a damn about the poorest among us as long as he could point to record stock prices and low unemployment.

I honestly wonder what I'd do if a non-maga candidate replaced trump. Not vote for them, but I might vote for a third party at that point. Unless something changes, it wouldn't much matter; my voter registration is in a place that is very comfortably red so I'm not going to be able to change that.

Water is wet.

I mean...no shit?

there hasn't been an election where it wasn't choosing the least bad person.

Only the best current reason. When frump is out of the picture for good we can focus on other things

"A majority of voters backing Biden are mostly motivated by the greatest threat America and the western world has ever faced."

Well it worked the first time around...

Thanks Democrats. Hopefully you risking everything to stroke this dudes ego doesn't give the Republicans control forever. Exact same shit as 2016. I have no choice but to vote for Biden. I wonder whom the democratic party will pick next, probably Mayor Pete, and it'll then be another vote for Pete to save democracy.

Biden has done so much fucking shit for the average american (which is saying something thanks to the Do Nothing fascists)

First US president to join the union workers ON THE PICKET LINE In many ways we have handled this world-wide inflation shit better than any other in the G7 nations Unemployment numbers are at record lows, .01 lower than any other time in the past 10 years at one point in january and april of last year and since then has only risen around 0.3-4 points, removed healthcare related debt from credit scores

I could go on and on, but instead, others have already done so for me (and these aren't even super recent):

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-biden-accomplishment-data/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/oneyear/

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1143149435/despite-infighting-its-been-a-surprisingly-productive-2-years-for-democrats

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046

No kidding? Lol

Biden is not my favorite, but it’s that or fascism.

Only reason he won the primary in 2020. Idealists don't do well against fascists but moderates are inoffensive enough to

Aye, this is me

Honest motives

I mean, yeah.

Duh

i mean good but it's also pretty shortsighted considering biden has been one of our most progressive presidents in recent history.

Yes, Democrats know this and are taking the opportunity to move to the right.

I'm okay with that.

Anything but trump. Next term I do expect Biden to really kick around hard as hell gave nothing to lose, kick Israeli govt to the curb, kick the right-wing extremist religious out of the government, that sort of thing

You know what my main problem with Joe Biden is? I'm 37, he's what? 79? I've been a citizen of the United States longer than he has. He's spent the last three generations in either congress or the white house, and the people who do that don't live in the same reality as the rest of us. Too many of the laws outright don't apply to them, either because there are literal exceptions or "we don't enforce that on them." Joe Biden doesn't know the first fucking thing about being an American because he hasn't ever actually done it.

Biden

a Catholic president with a prosecutor for a vice president

the last four years have consisted of abortion rights being stripped, Cop City built to train police to subjugate citizens by razing a national forest, workers protested and were told to stop on threat of their livelihood with no change in worker's rights or higher wages, immigration policies have deteriorated, food cost are astronomical and inflation is rising on everything without stopping, journalism is dying due to corporate buyout with journalist being silenced

but Biden who is a career politician going on almost half a century now who is running against a career donor is progressive

when was he ever progressive? what about Harris? have either of these two been progressive at any point in their careers?

Biden worked on laws and policies that would put people in jail and Harris worked her career enforcing such laws

If a Catholic and a Prosecutor with a resume of putting the citizens in their proper places is progressive then yes we are truly fisted in the ass and gaped with no chance in hell

and that is why we the people will lose this election as well

we either stop supporting bad candidates from any party or we get stuck with them

why the fuck does any want four years of Trump or Biden is wild

Both are too old and both are set on taking us way back in time

already lost women's rights and worker's rights

how much do y'all want to lose?

guess we will see in the next four years what we get to lose next already getting to the point crossing state borders is difficult