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Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world ·
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[Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency

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[Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency

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Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world ·
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Biden announced he’s ending his bid for the presidency via X (formerly twitter).

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  • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e5xpdzkd8o
  • https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-election-07-21-24/index.html
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/president-joe-biden-drops-2024-presidential-race-rcna159867
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    Honestly the biggest problem Biden had was that all his funding dried up after the debate.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/biden-fundraising.html

    Regardless of who you think would win in a vacuum you gotta acknowledge this.

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      The biggest problem he had was getting old.

    • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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      I suspended my donations with a memo that they need to seriously consider running someone else. I’ll vote for Harris, but I’m not excited for her.

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        I think she’s as fine a candidate as we’re likely to get. The biggest bonus is breaking the glass ceiling, once and for ever. Not just a woman but a woman of a colorful heredity. It will be the best thing to happen in this era of bullshit politics.

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          Gretchen Whitmer would be an interesting choice. She would probably deliver Michigan and free up resources for the other states that matter.

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          No talk of issues or positions here. Just “her sex and skin color.” Maybe that will get some people out to vote, but they did the same thing for Hillary and it did not work. “First woman president, she deserves it”

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            deleted by creator

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          I don’t know, that sounds awfully sexist and racist. There are a thousand things more important about a person than their heritage and sex.

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            There are a thousand things more important, and yet our country managed to have a streak of electing only men for hundreds of years, despite the fact that there have always been just as many women in the country. It shouldn’t matter, but it does.

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      I stopped donating after the debate. I sent a donation today for 3x my usual. If they only respond to money, then withholding it is the only way to make them listen.

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      This means Harris shouldn’t have an advantage. She only had the advantage that she could use the funds that Biden raised.

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        Presumably the donations will start coming back in now that Biden is out.

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          But now they can go to whomever the new candidate is.

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            Ah OK I see what you’re saying. I misunderstood.

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