Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members

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    1 year ago

    Age notwithstanding, any incumbent president in the last 50 years would be absolutely overjoyed to run for re-election with Biden’s record; tons of new blue-collar jobs, strong economy, relative lack of major fuck-ups or controversies or other drama except manufactured RW ragebait. Basically everything swing voters want and nothing they don’t want.

    Nor is there any real reason to fret about base turnout, given that liberals will view the Republican candidate winning as apocalyptic and show up simply to vote against that person, however disappointed they may be in Biden and whatever performative statements they make about their votes not being guaranteed.

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      From abroad at least Biden seems like a very poor candidate. As he’s chosen to stand again the dems have little choice but get behind him or risk a devisive primary season splitting the party.

      But the republicans look set to select a very poor candidate too. It says a lot about how broken US politics is that were probably going to see a rerun of the last election with two elderly candidates battling it out in a deeply divisive and particularly polarised election.

      The election will basically come down to how many people don’t like Donald Trump. That’s not great.

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          • He promised he wouldn’t run.
          • He’s old and likely has experienced cognitive decline.
          • He’s the most anti-union president since Reagan, and supposedly a Democrat.
          • The border is as bad or worse than under Trump.
          • He’s not actually able to campaign effectively for himself or others.
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        Not only is he old, but he’s pretending that doesn’t matter. I think that’s pretty disingenuous.