He had a bad civil rights history, genocide, the kid sniffing thing, Anita Hill, even Kamala had called him out.
And none of that ultimately mattered because he won by a huge margin, so it's like, being a perfect candidate just isn't the only answer to voters in reality.
@eris people elected biden cause they were sick of trump. then biden broke every campaign promise and people got sick of him too. then harris ran a campaign pretty much identical to clinton’s 2016 run: “more of the same as the last guy.” the last guy people were sick of
biden at least had the decency to lie and say he was gonna do all this progressive shit. harris never did
@eris i mean on twitter, sure. that’s not the messaging he was putting out though, that was a leak. most people were more interested in his campaign’s actual messaging, where he said he was gonna reform the cops and fight covid and give everyone $2k
@eris yeah, independents who were sick of trump mismanaging the pandemic and their economic stakes not improving and wanting change. what “independents” want isnt somehow incompatible with what leftists want. “independents” arent socially upper-middle class fiscally convervative suburban moms, they’re working class people with inscrutable and contradictory beliefs, like people who think that weed should be legal and there should be free healthcare and student loan forgiveness but also that migrants should be shot and the second amendment is sacrosanct. you win them over by offering them free healthcare and loan forgiveness, not by offering compromise with the dude whose whole thing is shooting migrants
@eris i mean yeah the supreme court thing is really fucked, we’re not arguing that. but harris didn’t even offer anything except some vague statements about the price of living. to the typical white american, she didnt have any positions that were being talked about that would help them. it was all “im not that other guy”
and even through all that, trump got fewer total votes then 2020. its just that kamala lost even more compared to biden. she just did not run a campaign that offered people anything, so her base had bad turnout and independents had no reason to switch to her
@eris yes exactly! her campaign had no substance, so she failed to energize her base and failed to reach any independents or undecideds
(i have no idea if that's legal in amerikkka but it would definitely be unconstitutional up here without the cooperation of every affected province so i can only imagine it'd be even more so down there)
@apophis @dangerdyke @eris Nixon did it in response to stagflation but allegedly the president has been stripped of the power to do that since then. I doubt it. The president can declare a national emergency and do almost anything.
