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Apparently, the Campaign is "testing" how Kamala would do against Trump. I'm not sure that would be good for her, though. Or, rather, her political future. Is it worse to be a running mate on a losing team, or the principal on a losing team? (I genuinely don't know the answer to that.) In the USA, she would have an uphill fight because she is female, and a dual-minority. Shouldn't be, but that's the reality. The fight would be made tougher if she takes the reins with less than four months to go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/bid...The survey, which is being conducted this week and was commissioned by the Biden campaign’s analytics team, is believed to be the first time since the debate that Mr. Biden’s aides have sought to measure how the vice president would fare at the top of the ticket.
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As the White House and the Biden campaign try to project a unified front, some of their supporters are engaged in a tough assessment of who should top the ticket.Apparently the next "judgment" will be this week when Biden goes to the NATO summit.
But, yeah, the NYT blows sunshine up my left-wing butt...I'm all aglow with the positive spin on Biden. (In case it wasn't obvious, that was sarcasm.)
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Apparently, the Campaign is "testing" how Kamala would do against Trump. I'm not sure that would be good for her, though. Or, rather, her political future. Is it worse to be a running mate on a losing team, or the principal on a losing team?
Even if they don't make any changes to the ticket, that's still very useful information to have. Even before the debate, some voters would have at least weighed the likelihood that Biden wouldn't last in office another 4.5 years. After the debate, that's probably a pretty large segment of the electorate. So the Biden campaign probably needs to know how comfortable voters are with the prospect of a President Harris compared to a second President Trump, so they can take that into account in their messaging.
Harris is better off being the running mate on the losing team, rather than top of the ticket. It would be an unusual situation, and unfair to her, but I don't think someone could recover from losing to Trump and convince primary voters the next cycle that she's capable of beating whoever the 2028 GOP candidate will be.
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<i<>But, yeah, the NYT blows sunshine up my left-wing butt...I'm all aglow with the positive spin on Biden. (In case it wasn't obvious, that was sarcasm.)
Heh. You mean, now that it's beyond obvious what's been going on, they're doing their jobs in the mildest way possible?
Some hard hitting journalisming, no doubt.
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Harris is better off being the running mate on the losing team, rather than top of the ticket.
Trump seems to be doing fine, in exactly the same situation.
Digression -
All the frothing at the mouth Dems here really need to understand how important it is to win the election. It's politics, not a test of ideological purity. And that the ONLY votes that count are swing voters in battleground states. If their candidate tees off the liberals in CA, MA, VT; that's perfectly fine (except maybe the rich donors and even they will donate anyway). Absolutely don't be Trump, but learn from him what's working.
This is war. Bloodless as long as the right makes it to be (to reverse-quote Kevin Roberts). Win first, worry about who is a better person etc later. No matter what, Trump is the Republican candidate and beating him is the only thing that matters. Not hand wringing about how American voters could possibly ever choose such a bad boy. They will unless you fight with every possible democratic weapon.
Without political power, all your great ideas are worth nothing.
Doesn't seem to be sinking in for some people here.
