Yes ole Joe WAS OLE JOE…..
Yes his staff keep it a secret that was a obvious….
But?
Joe Biden did NOT run for President a second time…..
Kamala Harris ran and LOST….
She lost because Democrats LOST bits and pieces of their ‘reliable ‘ base….
THAT was NOT Joe Biden’s fault….
We NOW have Republicans taking the leda from Democrats and keeping ‘ole Joe’ alive to beat up politically….
Democrats need to move ahead….
Running against Donald Trump, who will NOT be the Next President is probably NOT the way get the lost votes back…
Looking DEEP into the clients issues , ….The VOTERS?
IS…..
Democrats have taken certain things for granted….
Maybe gotten to FAR from the ‘sweet spot’ in the middle….
One hopes the party CAN wake up from the shock of the loss and figure out where to go….
And Where NOT to repeat some tired yesterday that seems to run out of gas….
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin” is already the big political book of the moment, even before its May 20 publication. (For a summary, see the subtitle: “President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”) They depict a Democratic Party, a White House staff and a Biden campaign that, though aware to varying degrees of the weakness, forgetfulness, confusion and incoherence afflicting Biden, remained largely silent about it, opting instead to accommodate and rationalize. And the authors describe a president and an inner circle so enamored with the Biden mythology — defiant against tough odds, resilient against adversity, solely capable of vanquishing Donald Trump — that any skepticism was forbidden.
In an authors’ note, Tapper and Thompson highlight the book’s 200 sources — lots of lawmakers and campaign and administration insiders — most of whom agreed to talk to them only after the election. “Some spoke to us with regret that they hadn’t done more, or that they had waited so long,” Tapper and Thompson write. “Many were angry and felt deeply betrayed, not just by Biden but by his inner circle of advisers, his allies and his family.” In campaign books, guilt, blame and not-my-fault-ism are standard impulses of the losing side…
…
It’s a tortured logic — stick with a flawed and deteriorating candidate precisely because his victory is essential — but it made sense if you assumed that the shortcomings of Biden’s opponent, not of Biden himself, would prove decisive. “Biden had the mind-set that what Trump was saying was so outrageous and so stupid that if the American people saw them side by side they would realize Trump was unfit,” Tapper and Thompson write. What Biden and his team did not seem to grasp was that the campaign was becoming a referendum on Biden alone and that two numbers — the price of groceries and the age of the candidate — were moving in the wrong direction.
When the American people considered the two men side by side, it was Biden who looked increasingly unable to handle the job…
…
For too long now, the Democrats have identified mainly as the anti-Trump party, proclaiming what they are against more than explaining what they’re for. Primary campaigns typically provide the chance for key policy debates and ideological self-definition, but the Democrats seem disinclined to see such a process through.
In 2020, Biden hardly represented the new ideas, energy or future of his party; he lost big in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada before resurrecting his campaign in South Carolina. But he won the nomination because party leaders coalesced, in desperation, around someone they thought could beat Trump. He was Uncle Joe, reliable and familiar and not a curmudgeonly socialist from Vermont. Four years later, when Biden gave up on dreams of re-election, his party again missed the chance to clarify where it stood, simply handing the baton to the closest outstretched hand.
“She had not spent the previous four years doing the reps, engaging in tough interviews and mixing it up with voters who might be inclined to view a fancy San Franciscan skeptically,” Tapper and Thompson write of Harris. “She never did the work of erasing the far-left positions she’d taken to win the nomination in 2020.” As Allen and Parnes put it, Harris lacked “a core cause for her candidacy.”
Instead, her campaign was all about the risks Trump posed: “We’re not going back.”
Americans now know what it’s like to go back to a Trump administration — but it’s less obvious what they make of his Democratic opposition. Biden’s victory in 2020 allowed the Democrats to paper over their differences, and his implosion in 2024 lets them do it once again. After all, it’s easier to find a scapegoat than an identity. But self-definition is a critical challenge for a party that must offer something more than fervent anti-Trumpism, however crucial resistance feels today….
Note….
Donald Trump & Co. ARE working to destroy almost ANYTHING Joe Biden and Obama DID….
Democrats must ID what VOTERS feel IS important to them and then fight for those things…
Some of those things ?
May have the party CHANGE THEIR MINDS on some things….
THAT will BE the hard part….
But could rewad the party with the voters they sorely need back….
Update….
Trump & Co. are all to Happy to KEEP Biden in the media bashing mode…
President Trump shared a post alleging that Joe Biden was “executed in 2020,” and replaced with “clones” and “robotic engineered soulless mindless entities.”
It actually makes perfect sense.
While I am not a Democrat, as someone who has recently voted for them with tremendous reluctance, out of a sense of pure political desperation, it is very obvious that Joe Biden cost them the 2024 election. No, he was not a cyborg clone, but he had no business running for reelection for every single day that he did run for reelection, and based on everything we now known, he should not have been President. Years ago, I suggested that he maybe resign at some point after 1/21/23 to allow his VP to become an incumbent, and in fact be eligible to run twice after that,
The election was a referendum on Biden’s Presidency and the fact that Democrats went to such great lengths for so long as to pretend he was a viable candidate for reelection. Democrats ate not going to be trusted again by a large amount of Americans unless they own up to this and admit it. They need to admit they were wrong about Biden and have learned that lesson. That also happens to put Republicans on more of a defensive about Trump.
All people should obviously wish Joe Biden well in regards to his health, but there are so many questions. Medically speaking, it is nearly impossible that he did not have an advanced and detectable case of cancer while he was serving as President and running for reelection.
We are told now that the doctors did not know this and he and his family did not know this. *If* we are being lied to about that, it is one of the largest scandals in the country’s history. If we take it at face value, that means there was a tremendous failure within the White House, as it relates to medical care. The President, and by extension the country, were put at great risk,and now, it means a man will probably pass away from something that could have been more successfully treated years ago.
All of this feels hard to believe. People on the right have exaggerated and continue to exaggerate what happened to Biden mentally for years now, but that does not mean that Biden allies have not also done the same in reverse. Transparency and honesty must be made important again.
If Americans really gave a shit about not having an elderly and at risk of dementia President they wouldn’t have put Donald Trump back in the White House.
Biden should have stepped down earlier. But the fact that the American voters response to that was to elect someone who will be older by the end of his term than Biden was makes no goddamned sense.
Is this on Joe Biden and the Democrats? Yes
But it’s also on the American voters for not turning the page on 80 yr old Presidents when they had the chance. Dipshits.
Donald Trump may CARRY his orange . flip over doo BETTER?
He IS a CONVICTED FELON, LOSER and BLOW HARD….
In the end?
Democrats , with Harris , MISSED THE BOAT….
The polling look back shows that they MISJUDGED the ‘sweet spot’ in the voter’s…
AGAIN?
Looking BACKWARDS Is NOT gonna doi Shit for them….
The special elections in the last 6 months HAVE had Democrats mounting back up and winning….
The PAST IS the PAST….
Trump and the Project 2025 saddled up after Donald’s lost and moved FORWARD….
Democrats need to do the same….
Guys?
Name me a Democrat that HAS stepped forward to grabe the LEAD going forward?
AOC and Bernie don’t count…
They Can’t win a General Election…
They couldn’t even win a primary in South Carolina…
Joni Ernst followed up her ‘were all gonna due” townhall zinger with a creepy walk through a Cemetery video where she doubled down on the inevitable shuffling off of our mortal coils.
She basically mocked anyone whi had a problem with her flippant answer by saying she could explain how there’s no tooth fairy either.
But then.closed the video stating that those who accept Jrsus Christ as their favor can avoid the certain death she warned about.
What a fuckin weirdo.
I think she was saying those who accept Christ, as she does, have no reason to fear the death that we are all going to have.
The whole thing is beyond weird. On the optics alone, she looks horrible in the cemetery video, and while it may be unfair, female politicians are held to different standards.
I have to think she is so worried about her MAGA primary challenge(s) that she decided to double down on a ridiculous gaffe in order to “own the libs” and raise money by saying “look how upset I made them.”
Iowa may be too far gone for a Democrat statewide at this point, but none of this helped her and the ads that can be used against Ernst wrote themselves.
For one thing, someone could always dig up some “I CHOOSE LIFE” bumper stickers or posters, perhaps adding “BUT JONE ERNST DOESN’T!!!”
She doesn’t care….
I see she has a possible challenger in the wings?
Ernst won 51-45 in 2020. Not a squeaker. But not a landslide either.
It’s not out of the question at all that she could lose in a blue wave midterm.
Joni Ernst Gets a Democratic Challenger
“After Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told a town hall audience, ‘We’re all going to die,’ when responding to constituents’ concerns about Medicaid cuts, Democratic state Rep. J.D. Scholten — who has been publicly flirting with a run against the GOP incumbent — decided to launch his campaign,” Politico reports.
Said Scholten: “I just felt, you know, I have to do this. Now’s the time, and rather than being perfect with everything, I just feel like you got to do it.”
Politicalwire