The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the president’s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whether Joe Biden was going to endorse Kamala Harris or not. And the question didn’t revolve around whether he wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh start going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

  • john89@lemmy.ca
    214·
    4 months ago

    Literally nobody was voting for Trump over Biden because of his age.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Biden’s polling went noticeably down after the debate in which he was noticeably very fucking old.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      There were going to be a lot of low-info brain stems that sat out, voted third party, or just out and out voted for donnie for age and/or the media narrative about mental acuity. You can count on that.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        53·
        4 months ago

        If they voted for Don over two made-up issues, they’ll vote for Don over some new story. The GQP are attacking VP Harris’ laugh, now. Do I need to go find a clip?

        If they’re excusing all Don’s myriad misdeeds - THE MAN IS A FELON - over a stutter and a stumble, they’ll believe anything.

        • aesthelete@lemmy.world
          5·
          4 months ago

          The American independent voter is a puzzling thing. I think they vote based upon a great many non-issues tbh, but Biden old was an easy attack line and was a media classic, and removal of it will sway a non zero amount of voters.

          I mean people voted Obama then Trump… and there is a non zero amount of people who voted Trump and then Biden. I wouldn’t be shocked if there would’ve been people that voted Trump then Biden that would’ve voted Trump again, and some of those could be swayed to Harris?

          For a laugh: https://youtu.be/KAG37Kw1-aw