The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the presidentā€™s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whetherĀ Joe BidenĀ was going to endorseĀ Kamala HarrisĀ or not. And the question didnā€™t revolve around whetherĀ heĀ wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh startĀ going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Whatā€™s funny is that this whole thing really started once Biden badly underperformed at the debate.

    If Trump had just done his usual cowardly thing and bailed on the debate, we wouldnā€™t have seen that humiliating performance by Biden, and heā€™d probably still be on the ticket.

    Once again, Trumpā€™s pride has taken him to a place he didnā€™t want to go.

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      4 months ago

      Holy shit I skipped the last debate but you just made me realize Harris will probably debate Trump now. I wanna see that for sure

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        4 months ago

        Just once I want to hear Harris say ā€œI built my career putting felons like Donald Trump in prisonā€ to his fat fucking face.

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        Thereā€™s no way Trump will debate her. Heā€™ll back out saying sheā€™s an illegitimate candidate or something since she didnā€™t get selected in the primaries.