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W_HAMILTON

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11. Yes, it still would have been the case.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 09:30 PM
Jul 20

Biden was popular and he chose Kamala as his running mate. All the reasons for pushing Biden out the door would not have applied to Kamala. Kamala was young, now more experienced than anyone trying to challenge her, and running on an even more progressive platform than Biden -- which ran on the most progressive party platform in decades.

Once again, Kamala would have had the support of black voters and enough white voters to push her over the edge. There was absolutely no other candidate that would have seriously challenged either one in the primary. Even if we were to suspend reality and assume for a second that there was, the civil war that would have resulted from pushing out a beloved life-long Democratic incumbent because he was """too old""" and then disregarding his running mate (which did not have any of said problems) would have resulted in an even bigger loss in the general.

Kamala did the best with the hand that she was dealt, but it's the fault of the voters for allowing Trump back into office. You can't out-campaign stupidity and stubbornness. Americans had to touch the hot stove again, and now -- barely half a year into the felon's first year -- they are already regretting it.

She told them.

We told them.

They didn't listen.

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