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Yeah let's maybe hold off on the victory laps until after the election. This thing is on a knife's edge still and we got a lot of work to do still to get her over the line.

womp womp i knew it. something about having a cadaver up on stage just spoke to me…

I was going to bet a large amount of cash that Biden would lose. We hit rock bottom and all data proved Biden was at best at Jimmy Carter's level of performance with added baggage like age-related risk. I said then and say now that anyone would be better. Whether that was Harris or whether that was by an open convention -- which itself could've been exciting and similarly sucked away all attention from Trump -- either way.

At the end of the day all the data convinced not just me but countless Democratic representatives and eventually Biden's own campaign staff and advisors. Thank fuck he did the obviously right thing.

What I got wrong: I didn't believe Harris would work out this well, and in fact I was hoping for Whitmer among others if I'm honest... But I'm happily proven wrong.

I was also wrong about the VP pick. I wanted Kelly but Walz is the whole package.

because all available history and information basically assured that it was

That's actually just not true. It's pretty interesting, but the main reason incumbents have such a high chance of re-election is because exactly this happened with most incumbents that had a low chance already: They got cut out by the party. So there has always been natural cherry-picking that only the "good" incumbents went on to actually be the nominee again (and therefore had a disproportionally high rate of winning).

Although I originally also thought otherwise, when looking at all the data, this was the rational & correct choice.

Harris' takeover has been an an absolute success, but anyone claiming they knew it'd work out this way is lying or delusional.

This is cope. It was obvious.

I guess the Russian bots are downvoting you.

I got so much shit on Lemmy for saying Biden should drop after his debate. Was literally called a Russian bot multiple times.

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my hand fucking shattered against the ceiling after reading this comment

Well Russian bots were spreading the same rhetoric since they were trying to undermine Biden's campaign in order to get their Russian asset to win.

Just glad those bots helped the Democrats in the long run even if they didn't mean it. It has been a lot more quiet from those fronts since the change.

accepted

sorry for the L, but i think we’re both glad you’re taking it :)

thx for being a real one

Thank you. I was in the same boat. Did I want Biden President again? Not really. But there were no alternatives at the time and I thought that Harris wasn't exactly getting the recognition when people wanted to just drop Biden.

I'm glad I'm wrong about staying with Biden. I'm happier that Harris has taken up the mantle. I just hope that it's enough to drive turnout.

Yeah, this is the correct take here. Trying to pretend that this was the plan all along is disingenuous. There was no plan other than 'Biden bad'.

The fact that Kamala Harris has clutched momentum and has good odds came out of literally nowhere, as did Harris herself.

It also can't be ignored that the 'Biden bad' message was being pushed hard artificially by billionaires and Russia, which didn't exactly fill a lot of Democrats with hope that it was a realistic option.

We lucked out.

Absolutely grossly cruel about their disdain to anyone disagreeing and now just fully onboard without so much as a glance back at the wake of abuse left.

Honestly the Democrats can be exactly the same kind of bullies for like minded party thinking as the Republicans its just their shit apparently doesn't stink quite as much to have to take notice of it.

right like if you weren’t mean about it, no need to apologize. but there was so much shit being thrown around it was quite sad actually

Drop that ass and let that booty shake. Let's go Joe!

Kamala Harris hasn't won, no. But I think she's already achieved enough momentum that if she loses, it will be safe to say that Joe Biden would have also lost.