- With Joe Biden out of the race, Donald Trump has become the oldest presidential nominee ever.
- Trump’s now facing off against Kamala Harris, 59, a woman decades younger.
- On Monday, Trump called himself a “fine and brilliant young man” while criticizing Harris.
That is… well, it sounds remarkable. What are previous figures for candidates?
In 2020, there were only 2 million individual donors, to any candidate or party, for the entire cycle. A million in a weekend is pretty impressive.
Before she’s even the nominee.
Yeah, I mean technically. I dunno, it’s a little bit tough to say that since there’s nobody else in the race (and thus she’s the only one with any momentum at all). She got the nod from the current president and the non-binding support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination. It’s not like there’s a whole lot of doubt that she’s going to be the nominee, unless something unexpected goes down over the next few days.
And to be clear, I don’t think that diminishes how impressive her feat is. I just think it’s more about the fact that she’s managed to reinvigorate the entire political center-left in just a few days, and flip this race from “a 2020 rerun” to “something completely new.”
Yeah that’s fair. I just wish they had gotten off their arses and initiated a democratic vote on the matter.
For that to happen it would need to have been in March at the latest. Biden did the right thing, but he waited quite a long time to do it. At this point, support needs to coalesce around one candidate.
Not that I disagree. I absolutely don’t. It’s just too late for processes like that at this point.
Not really; you’ve got over three months.
I mean, yes, and in those three months will be the democratic vote to actually nominate the candidate. I don’t see any value in having another vote before then.