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Originally Posted by MarchHare
All those people who were posting in this thread on Tuesday night about what a horrible candidate Biden was and how the Democratic Party threw away the election to the worst president in US history by not nominating someone else are going to stop by to post a mea culpa and eat crow any minute now, right? Right? Guys...?
*crickets*
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Biden is a horrible candidate. Always has been, always will be. He was a distant 4th at the start of the primaries until all the other candidates dropped out very early and pledged their allegiance to Biden to prevent Sanders from coming close to winning.
Biden almost lost to the worst president in history.
They won despite Biden, not because of Biden. Did your somehow forget everything that happened in the last 4 years, and Trump still almost squeaked a victory? The country was
literally burning in flames!
There is a very high likelyhood that the pandemic is what caused the tipping scale, as the American economy was in great shape prior.
Now obviously Obama couldn't run, but do you think for one second that Trump would have ever come close to winning in 2016 let alone in 2020 if the Democrats ran a candidate that was not part of the old guard? The DNC was forced to dust off Biden to put him in as a recognizable name after Clinton's humiliating defeat in 2016.
In 2015 Biden was largely seen as unelectable where he stepped aside to have Clinton take the Democrats to the presidency, in 2019 he was the only thing the Democrats had in the cupboards. They didn't have an Obama waiting in the wings ready and Kamala Harris is too polarizing to really get the same results at least at this time.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...iden-didnt-run
Closing comments from 2015:
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And that is what makes his decision especially memorable. Biden is giving up his last chance at the role that he has always wanted—and a bet that he believes his son Beau wanted him to place. “As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I’ve said all along...It may very well be that that process, by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president, that it might close,” Biden said. “I’ve concluded that it has closed.”
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We are day 4 with an election where cocky posters were arrogantly touting right before the election that this will be a total landslide victory, with electoral seats as high as 368. This was the same arrogance and ignorance that got Trump elected to begin with.
And since I have to spell it out to some of the mindthink because any attempt to provide an argument gets met by disdain.
No. One. Likes. Trump. Here. No. One. Wanted. Trump. To. Win. Here.
Biden is still a horrible candidate that almost cost us 4 more years of Trump.