• rsuri@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I disagree. My logic is as follows:
    Premise 1. Joe Biden cannot beat Trump
    Premise 2: Virtually any other democrat can beat Trump
    Conclusion: If we want to beat Trump, Biden should step down and be replaced by virtually any other Democrat

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      4 months ago

      You say he can’t beat Trump, but he already beat healthcare, so who knows what else he can beat

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      4 months ago

      Why can’t Joe beat Trump? Because he seems old and confuses things? You think that’s why people are voting for Trump?

      • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Because last time he beat Trump it was because Covid was the top worry and of course people want the party that promotes health care over Trump when their biggest fear is a global pandemic. Now peoples fears are money. You run the same campaign you ran in 2020 and you’ll lose.

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          4 months ago

          Don’t forget that the actively malicious option is also old and confused as well.

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        4 months ago

        I mean, if you look at track records, Biden already beat Trump in 100% of previous elections.

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        4 months ago

        Biden only beat Trump the first time around because of historic voter turnout. Voters just aren’t as enthusiastic to keep Trump out this year.

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        4 months ago

        Yes. There’s partisans who vote Trump no matter what, but there’s also a pretty large number of “low information voters”. Rather than being necessarily dumb, many of these are people from all kinds of different walks of life who just don’t follow politics that closely and prefer to follow things like dating reality shows or sports instead. These people are not really aware of what happened on Jan 6 other than that there was some sort of riot at the Capitol. They know Trump was charged with a bunch of crimes, but don’t know if they were real crimes or just politics. And when these people see Trump lying confidently and Joe Biden being barely intelligible in response, they like Trump better.

        It sucks, yes. But it’s reality. Democrats need someone who can answer Trump forcefully. Or they will lose.