• Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Kamala Harris is the obvious candidate from the Democrat side. The real question is, will she manage to catch up to Trump?

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      5 months ago

      From an outsider point of view, I’m not sure she can. She’s pretty invisible. At least she can speak though.

      I’d rather see AOC. She has visibility and seems like a junior Sanders. Probably too short notice to get her ready though.

      And you just know they’re going to pick Hillary again and completely blow it.

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        5 months ago

        I was originally going to reply that AOC isn’t old enough to run for office, but it turns out that she will be 35 in October of this year, sooo… 3 week campaign from October 13th - November 5th?

        AOC becomes the 47th POTUS, the youngest of all time plus the shortest campaign. Sounds like a great timeline to me.

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        5 months ago

        They won’t pick Hillary. I could see AOC trying to convince the delegates after she shilled hard for Biden. If anything… I think AOC would be VP.

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          They’ll pick someone who covers Harris’s demographic gaps for VP, like they did Biden for Obama. Probably a moderate from a swing state. Edit: spelling.

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          5 months ago

          I wish all the people on the left who think Hillary were going to get picked were gamblers. You could stand to make a lot of money off of them being wrong.

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        Honestly, it will bring out all the worst sides of Trump, which is potentially good. His base eats up that racist misogynist stuff, the majority of voters not so much. Most people are probably indifferent, after all the shit we’ve seen since 2016, a black woman president isn’t that remarkable anymore. Trump trying to rally people on that will make him look like a loser.

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          5 months ago

          It’s that indifference part that worries me. Are we that fucked up as people? That we would be ok with that? Man. This is not the county I was raised in. We had different things to fight about. And we weren’t such assholes to each other.

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          5 months ago

          Yeah, this isn’t about getting Trump voters to switch sides. This is about getting non-voters off their arses on polling day and keep the obvious horrid man out.