• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I knew that Harris would be a better candidate than Biden.

    You’d have to be proverbially blind to not have seen it.

    Did I know it would be this wildly successful? Not so much. I knew it could be, and I knew Harris would be better than Biden.

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      I’m with you and all, but shouldn’t we wait before considering it a victory?

      Plenty of racists and sexists out there who won’t say a word about Harris publicly but will vote for Trump the second they enter the booth no matter what.

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        I’m not declaring victory- I’m saying Biden had almost zero chance of beating trump.

        If he had lost like four of any of ten states, he’d have lost I. 2020. He won the EC by a razor’s edge.

        And that was with all the shit of his presidency fresh. He’s had four years to retcon things, to shore up his base. And Biden had 4 years to fuck around on messaging.

        He was and is taking a beating there- and some of it is actually legitimate (Gaza for example.)

        Harris… it’s going to be a tough fight, but it’s her campaign to lose. Which is a night-and-day difference.

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      No way to know if it “worked out” before all votes are counted (at the end it doesn’t matter how large or small the margin is, just on whose side it is). But yeah, you didn’t need to be a genius to know that she was the objectively better candidate.

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        No where in my comment did I say that’s not true.

        But again: if you can’t see the difference- and couldn’t see the difference before Biden dropped out, then I can only assume you weren’t paying attention.

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      2 months ago

      It wasn’t even a sure thing that Harris would be the candidate to replace Biden.