• Dearth@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Probably the incumbent Democrat. Losing the popular vote doesn’t really disqualify thou gettin winning the office

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      6 months ago

      Biden winning the electoral college and losing the popular vote is honestly not outside the cards in 2024.

      Very good chance the Dems in the big red states get even more disenfranchised than normal and turnout plummets in places like Florida and Texas. Then progressives in big blue states stay home in protest, because who cares if Biden wins California or New York by 5% or 50%? Meanwhile, Biden’s running neck-and-neck across the Midwest.

      He could pull a Reverse Hillary and lose a bunch of deep red states by enormous margins, underwhelm in blue strongholds, bait Trump into saying some bullshit about trade deals to hedge the Midwest, then squeak passed on electoral math.

      Would be funny as hell to watch the SCOTUS revisit Bush v Gore after that.