• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I was really surprised to discover that even Harris is polled as out performing Biden, especially among black voters, independents and suburban women. And she’s distanced herself from Biden on Israel in the past, so she really fixes a lot of the problems with the Biden admin. Plus she’s probably less squeamish on abortion.

    I think the main wild card here would be whether or not her nomination galvanized racists and bigots to come out to oppose her, but my gut says the energy created within the Democratic party by Biden leaving would still overwhelm bigoted backlash.

    She would be a disappointing first woman president, but I suppose we can’t really be precious about that.

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      4 months ago

      I voted for Biden last time expecting that I was also electing the first woman president, because I didn’t expect him to last this long.