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Kamala Harris is probably the second-worst candidate behind Hillary Clinton that the Democrats could field against Trump. She's disliked, she's a hypocrite (look at her current 'stance' on legalizing marijuana compared to her previous record as a prosecutor where she ruined thousands of lives with criminal convictions for smoking wacky tobaccy), and a vote for Biden was going to be a de-facto vote for her regardless, because we know that if Biden was going to fall seriously ill or die during his second term, she'd take over the presidency.
The Democrats have many better candidates to run. I hope they don't make the mistake of backing Biden's running mate.
She was a prosecutor 14 years ago. People are allowed to grow and change their opinion.
Who exactly do they have who's "better", who ALSO would agree to run, who ALSO doesn't have a mountain of baggage saddled with them? I've seen Whitmer thrown around, but she's had a serious smear campaign and a credible assassination attempt against her already. Beshear's another, he said he isn't going to accept even if the DNC nominates him. Sanders also gets tarred with the "but he's old" brush, plus the GOP can run thousands of hours of "he's a literall socialist". AOC is also similarly divisive, and I don't think she'd accept anyway.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, plenty of good candidates.
Sanders would be a bad choice because he's too old and while he's certainly more compos mentis than Biden, he cannot escape that criticism. Michael Bloomberg would also be a similarly bad candidate for the same reason, plus also for running an incredibly expensive and half-assed campaign last time around.
Ladbrokes currently have Michelle Obama as the second-favourite to win the Democrat nomination. She would actually be a great choice because it means Barack gets another four to eight years in the White House, albeit as the First Man. She also seems like a very sensible candidate in her own right.
Alternatively, they could go the Reagan/Trump route and usher in a celebrity as their candidate. Someone like Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Fallon would be huge.
Taylor swift?! You're proposing a literal billionaire as a more radical candidate than Harris?
A literal billionaire with a sheepish following of mainly fangirls that could easily rival Trump's supporter base.
Yang? Already flamed out once, and had very few specific policy goals beyond UBI.
AOC? If she accepts, which I doubt, she'll face challenges of "she's too young" despite her being of-age by the inauguration, and would certainly see a federal or SCOTUS case trying to disqualify her. I could see BOEs in multiple states trying to boot her off the ballot because of it.
Warren and Buttigieg both are saddled with lots of baggage - Warren's already been tarred as a nut by mainstream media, and Buttigieg's performance as Secretary of Transportation is...lackluster.
Michelle Obama would be foolish - it would see the same challenges as Hilary in the "we're building another dynasty" angle.
Oprah is a poor choice, Taylor Swift, same. Colbert and Fallon would seriously be BAD choices.
Michelle/AOC would crush it... That would be awesome
They don't have anyone better right now.
At least now we don't have to deal with Republicans attacking Biden for his age and we can turn that around on Trump.
I could run a full list of pros and cons on the woman but at the end of the day we got an upgrade if this decision should have been made much earlier. Gotta always vote blue no matter who. Can't let Republicans get in.
Of course, they'll attack her for her gender and skin color.
not her gender or color
it is the fact that she wants her boots licked
Remember a couple of days ago where you complained about Biden not doing something and I showed everyone a screenshot of you complaining about it when Biden did do that thing 10 months earlier?
ooh, link?
https://lemmy.world/comment/11281737
I don't kink-shame.
she is a prosecutor
her career was spent putting people in jail with Biden's crime bills
I am absolutely aware of her history as the district attorney of San Francisco and how she targeted young black men with nonviolent offenses throughout her career.
She was my least favorite out of the three options mentioned back in 2020 for VP but at the end of the day she's not Trump.
I won't agree with her on everything but Trump is this massive danger to society that can't be overlooked or allowed any ground.
He JOB was to prosecute those that broke the law...the law was "weed bad"...so....
enforcing laws that you don't personally agree with and then advocating to change that law: hypocrisy, apparently
Third worst candidate; fortunately the second-worst already stepped down.