Kamala Harris surges as top choice to replace Joe Biden: Poll

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Kamala Harris surges as top choice to replace Joe Biden: Poll - Lemmy.World

>The poll, which was conducted from July 7 to July 9, found that 73 percent of Democratic voters “somewhat” or “strongly” approve of Harris as Biden’s replacement. In an earlier iteration of the same survey, conducted from July 3 to July 6, a 66 percent majority of Democrats approved of Harris as a replacement.

Polls also say she would do no better than Joe.
So it won’t matter if she replaces him, right? I mean, if it doesn’t matter who the candidate is with polling, then changing the candidate shouldn’t matter, right? Like, why are we keeping Biden if it doesn’t matter who the candidate is? Theoretically, if it doesn’t make a difference who the nominee is, and it won’t change anything, then changing the nominee shouldn’t be a problem, right?

We aren’t “keeping” Biden, the primary process was when other people could run against him and we got to pick. Now that he has secured the nomination, only one person on Earth decides if Biden continues to run or not–Biden himself.

Unless he gets impeached and removed from office or something, which is not very likely.

Hell, he even gets immunity for all sorts of possible crimes now, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Democratic donors warn of campaign funds ‘drying up’ as Joe Biden holds on

Donors decide.

Some wealthy backers are increasingly unwilling to pour cash into ‘losing’ effort

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No, all they can do is stop donating. They cannot hold a gun to his head and control his actions.
That’s why you’re seeing a struggle within the party. It’s over, it’s been over, Biden just hasn’t accepted it yet.

Maybe, I don’t know. I was just shooting down that standard DNC conspiracy theory nonsense. “Donors deciding” is just a step away from “Jews run the world”, with the George Soros conspiracy theories being the step in the middle.

Common sense dictates that money does not grant you mind control powers, however, just sway.

This is an incredibly bad position. Saying that donors decide is nothing like saying “Jews run the world”. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it is a recognition that campaign funds are integral to a presidential election. If Biden can’t bring in money then his campaign will fold.

Biden already possesses a huge amount of donor money, and cannot run again in the future. Additionally, Biden gets almost half his money from small donors.

www.opensecrets.org/…/small-donors

Influence gained by donation and control are not the same thing. Influence is real. Control is conspiracy theory bullshit.

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