Quote Originally Posted by Beanz View Post
I don't keep up with American politics to really understand. Surely there must be other Democratic potential candidates? Is Kamala Harris that bad or is it just because she is black and female? And if she is that bad then why is she VP? I know AOC is way too far to the left for most here's taste but she seems an intelligent articulate camera friendly star to me. Is there not a more middle ground or right wing male Latino candidate that could fire up a huge portion of the electorate? Even a boring middle ground white guy under 70? Surely?

When someody becomes prez they're the candidate four years later. Every single president runs for reelection with very few exceptions. Nobody credible ever runs against them and they breeze throughthe primary elections. It's difficult to get rid of them if they don't want to go as we're now seeing.

Kamala Harris really is that bad. Even Democratic primary voters didn't like her when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020. She was actually the favourite i the race before it started, former prosecutor, Senator, black and female in a party whose base is blacks and females. She was so poor she dropped out before the first state primary as she would have finished close to bottom. The New York Tims did an article on her recently along the lines of has she grown into the job of vp. There has been massive staff turnover wich is always a bad sign. The Harris people gave the NYT a list of former staffers who would say something positive about her to balance an article they expected to make her look bad and not one of them had anything good to say about her. She'd [robably do better than Biden but would still lose.


AOC is too lefty for America. Great on tv but would lose forty five states. Interestingly she only comes out with a little bit of lefty rhetoric these days and it's all highly qualified. In the House she votes ninety nine percent of the time with the boring moderate Democratic caucus. All the actual extremists who vote like they talk are all in the other party and the modertes now have to vote like extremists or get primaried by some MAGA nutcase.