I'm not voting for dems, i hate all of them, and this election is bullshit. So I'm speaking strictly from a horse race perspective here, since i do not care about the process or outcome.
I totally agree Kamala won't boost down ballot at all. The down ballot is already boosted (as boosted as possible anyway) from people voting because of abortion. Kamala is awful at politics. The more she's in the spotlight, probably the less people will like her (assuming anyone likes her now). But at least she can say the word abortion. Honestly, i think thats the only thing a Democratic canidate needs to do this election to perform competitively.
Kamala is not a strong candidate, but i don't know how much it matters. Dems entire strategy is abortion and negative partisanship against Trump. Biden is fucking both parts of that up by not being able to say, let alone speak about abortion, and by obviously being mentally unfit to an extent they can't hide. Almost anyone but Hilary could replace him and be competitive in this race.
Trump isn't the same as he was 4 years ago, let alone 8. He has a record that most people hate, and most people do not want a national abortion ban. Even as shitty of a candidate as Kamala is, i wouldn't say for sure she'd lose at this point. I think anyone but Biden (or Clinton) has a shot because of abortion.
it's abortion that'll be energizing the down ballot. Just today at work there were like 3 heavy ads about how horrible abortion rights being revoked during the hour and a half of news that was playing. They were very clearly new ads since they were talking about Vance now. It's nigh impossible to look at some of the stories just from the ads that were playing and ignore just how awful things are unless you're already just so deeply into the sauce that you'll never be convinced otherwise.
Remember when we used to say Hillary Clinton was uniquely qualified to lose to Trump? Because Trump is historically unpopular? I know its been 8 years, but personally the only change I make to that statement personally is adding Biden to that and thats only because he's dying in front of us. I don't think Kamala eats shit. If she loses itll be barely. Like idk when the narrative changed but I disagree with the change. I still think almost anyone can beat Trump. Theres already polls showing her either winning or performing better than Biden in the swing states and thats before she's selected and had time to actually build herself.
She has less rizz than a paper towel tube with googly eyes on it and she will face racism and sexism. Expecting her to eat shit is pretty reasonable IMO.
Desantis polled great too before he opened his mouth. The same thing would likely happen for Kamala. Hate to say it, but Gavin Newsom has a much better shot
I think anybody with a D next to their name and more charisma than a cave moss could beat Trump, but the short list of candidates the DNC is likely to consider (Hillary, Kamala, Pete, Joe) all fail to reach that bar.
i had to actually read the transcript to understand the coconut thing because googling it is useless. there are a bunch of sites that claim to explain it but never do. Also helps explain the weird poll they did recently asking if voters agree that they live in the context of all that is and came before lol.
Okay, while the "fell out of a coconut tree" tree line is fine, referring to a brown skinned person as a "coconut" is indeed problematic. "Brown on the outside, white on the inside". Even if it's kinda true in her case
Isn't that more of a UK thing? Never really heard that term used in America. There's a cookie-based slur that I think is more the US equivalent to the UK one.