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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton says Biden's re-election bid cost Democrats the 2024 election [View all]Katinfl
(924 posts)35. She is probably right. But we still had a good candidate in Kamala.
The fact remains that people did not realize how much Biden had accomplished to get us through Covid, get the economy back on track and all the other good things he did. They fell for trumps BS, did not remember his first term or chose to forget it, would not vote for a black woman, chose to sit this one out, etc
.whatever the reason, we are where we are because voters simply chose to take the easy way out. Whether Biden stayed in or not, the outcome would have probably been the same. We had a great candidate who stepped up to the plate on short notice, did a fantastic job and still lost to an idiot.
The choice could not have been clearer and yet this is what we got. What does that say about this country?
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Hillary Clinton says Biden's re-election bid cost Democrats the 2024 election [View all]
ForgoTheConsequence
16 hrs ago
OP
He should've announced he wasn't running again, right after the (fairly) successful midterms...
68er
16 hrs ago
#2
I very openly advocated that he should be running in 2020 expplicitly as a one-term President.
Bluetus
12 hrs ago
#20
Agreed. He would not have had to keep any "powder dry" for a second term, in that case...
68er
12 hrs ago
#21
File in the "no shit" file. He said in '20 he'd likely NOT run for a 2nd term.
Callie1979
16 hrs ago
#5
Biden never promised that or committed to that. There's no reason to bring all this crap up.
LymphocyteLover
15 hrs ago
#9
She could've answered that without dumping so harshly on Joe Biden, a totally decent man and good president
LymphocyteLover
4 hrs ago
#33
"So did Biden promise or pledge or signal that he would be a one-term president? No, not explicitly."
LymphocyteLover
4 hrs ago
#32
She's not wrong but it's still a little bit weird that she's made a statement like that in public All Things Considered,
msfiddlestix
14 hrs ago
#13
She was interviewed, and someone asked if it was a mistake that he ran again (initially)
Polybius
14 hrs ago
#15
I absolutely assumed, when I voted for Biden in 2020, that he would serve a placeholder role
Prairie Gates
14 hrs ago
#16
I agree with Clinton. Biden was losing stamina and credibility, but his staff held on too long.
Martin68
14 hrs ago
#17
If Trump weren't stealing so much money for the family syndicate from our tax dollars
Akakoji
10 hrs ago
#28
Sadly, he undid what should have been a brilliant legacy. He could have been among the best one-termers, instead...
johnnyplankton
13 hrs ago
#19