Today In Biden Land

**Master** · 09-12-2023 08:09 AM

Kamala is being unfairly demonised by the media and opposition. She would make a good president and did a decent job when Biden was in hospital.

**NoSavingByTheBell** · 09-12-2023 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Master

Kamala is being unfairly demonised by the media and opposition. She would make a good president and did a decent job when Biden was in hospital.

You may literally be the only human being who thinks that

**TitoFan** · 09-12-2023 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Master

Kamala is being unfairly demonised by the media and opposition. She would make a good president and did a decent job when Biden was in hospital.

Oh wait... wha?

**Kirkland Laing** · 09-13-2023 02:28 AM

Back in 2019 when the Democratic runners and riders were getting ready and pundits were placing their bets almost none of them picked Biden. One of the few to do so was this guy who has quite a track record over the past few years. I agree with all of this:

Biden Should Pick A New Running Mate for 2024: Gretchen Whitmer

The president's advanced age and the closeness of the 2024 polls mean Joe Biden needs the partner who can best help him win, govern and lead. That's not Kamala Harris.

When he is renominated as the Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden will need to choose a running mate. The polls are close and the stakes are high, so he needs a partner who will do as much as possible to help him win re-election. Given widespread public concern about his age, it is even more important than usual that his running mate be someone that a majority of the voting public is comfortable envisioning succeeding to the presidency. And his pick should be someone who is credible as the future leader of the Democratic Party. Part of the problem in the 2020 primary campaign was that none of the younger candidates had a credible forward-looking pitch that was broadly acceptable across the party’s coalition in the way Biden’s was; since whoever Biden picks as VP is highly likely to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, he shouldpick someone who can pass that test in the same way he did. And let’s throw in one more bonus factor: It would be great if his running mate had a regional appeal that gave the Democratic ticket a leg up in one or more battleground states, such as, to choose a completely random example, Michigan.
Who’s the available person who stacks up best on those measures? Could it possibly be Kamala Harris?

Of course, the way I framed the question is not how people normally talk about this issue. Normally, the frame is that Harris has the spot on the ticket, and if she is to be replaced, it must be taken away from her. As such, the question people tend to argue about is whether Harris is performing so poorly that she ought to be fired from the ticket. But technically, there is no ticket yet to be fired from. The delegates to next year’s Democratic Convention will affirmatively choose a new candidate for Vice President, and if they choose Harris, it will be for the same reason they did in 2020: Joe Biden, who will again have won a majority of delegates in presidential nominating contests, will have asked them to do so. Biden should only make that ask if Harris is the very best option to help him win, govern and lead — that is, he should only pick her if she is excellent, rather than merely satisfactory.
Kamala Harris, unfortunately, is not an excellent candidate for the vice presidency. There are better options available and he should pick one of them — specifically, as I’ll discuss below, he should pick Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer......

https://www.joshbarro.com/p/biden-sh...utm_medium=ios