The Quinnipiac University poll showed that 49 percent of registered voters support Biden and 45 percent support Trump, but 67 percent said the 81-year-old president is too old to serve another term.

It’s definitely an issue that’s not going away. The DNC really needs to figure it out and stop pretending that it doesn’t matter to voters.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 months ago

    No, I think it’s too late for someone to try and beat Biden in the primary (though I did vote for a challenger, personally). But if Biden came out and said:

    Hey Jack - I’m fucking old and tired. So much like my buddy cornpop I’m going to step aside. Let me introduce yall to this Governor Newsom cat, he’ll be a strong advocate for that climate. No cap, Scranton. Sus.

    Then I think it’d probably go over smoothly. Newsom used above purely as an example - there are a lot of people I’d personally prefer… also, there’s Kamala Harris - the person voted second most likely to lose an election, after her mentor of course.

      • GoldELox
        2·
        9 months ago

        i think op was staying that neither of them are ‘valid’ candidates

        that’s how i took it anyway

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        Newsom was used purely as an example. I think he’s a pretty underwhelming candidate in terms of policy and also tactically a bad candidate. But yea - just grabbing a random name for demonstration.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          But doesn’t the fact that you couldn’t come up with a name of a good candidate to beat Trump and had to use Newsom as an example tell you something?

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            Not really, I’m just aware that any name I threw out would be controversial - especially one I’d personally celebrate. I’d be over the moon if we ended up with President Katie Porter but a lot of people would just ignore the actual point of my comment. Newsom was my choice for most milquetoast democrat - he tweets outrage at police killings and endorses greenwashed bullshit while mostly just trying to appear inoffensive and deeply moderate.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              3·
              9 months ago

              Okay, fair.

              I think the real problem for anyone who thinks someone should run other than Biden is the simple fact that, apart from Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, no one else in his party has said they want to. You can claim whatever reason you like for that, but the fact remains that no one else who is a Democrat has said they want to run for president in 2024.

              And it’s a pretty bad idea to try to get people to vote for someone who doesn’t want to run.