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Regardless of whether it would have been the more advantageous decision to run Biden before all of this - health and all - it's increasingly clear that our best choice is going to be replacing Biden on the ticket. Not thrilled about it. I don't know that this was worth throwing away a massive incumbent and name recognition advantage, but it's a moot point - too many public figures on Biden's side have came out in opposition. That track is rendered much less friendly by this public discourse. Our best chance now is in Biden stepping down.
As much as I hate to say it, this is likely a choice about which donors still support him vs. his chances of winning, or what any of the mere mortals in the voting bloc want.
If enough donors bail (and it looks like Clooney is a major fundraiser), that will likely seal the deal much more so than looking at Biden's dismal, impossible-to-win numbers or polling Democratic voters about what they want...
"I want a different nominee" does not mean "I won't support Biden if he is the nominee".
Clooney is directly responsible for that "40 million dollar night" Biden had.
It's actually becoming increasingly clear that there is no replacement for Biden. We have polling data now and none of the other options come close to Biden.
Yeah I'm with you. There's too much inertia against him now. The Biden team needs to approach Biden with a plan to get him to step aside, not just ask him to consider it. They need to identify replacement candidate(s) ASAP and get them in front of voters. Starting from scratch right now is gonna be tough, but it's absolutely winnable in this climate.
AKA Trump supporters.
None of those fuckers could come together and figure out who would replace him before dragging him publicly for weeks. So now we have either Biden who is being let down by his own party, or....no one? To face Trump who promised to be a dictator day 1 and has a literal plan to overthrow the government?
Everyone has failed and if Trump is elected it is more these peoples faults than they will ever admit or realize.
Man, I'm not exactly the biggest fan of our Dem congresscritters, but they're useful idiots for Trump at most. They're not Trump supporters.
I don't necessarily disagree, but regardless of their motives or how well-thought out or not this is, the damage is done. If it's a blunder, it's a blunder - the hand is off the piece. We have to decide what our next move is, and play it as best we can.
I'm tired of assuming everyone is an idiot or incompetent. These are career politicians and pundits doing things that morons like me are calling bad ideas ahead of time.
They know what this would do. They did it anyways. Regardless of their intent they knew what the public response would be. They are complicit.
Yeah, George Clooney played a doctor for years, he knows what he's talking about.
It's not about whether Biden's health is good or bad. It's about the perception of it.
I still think it's a mistake. But you can't unring a bell. You can rescind an endorsement, but sure as hell not a condemnation. We have to work with the electoral environment we're presented with, and make the best possible decisions based on that information, not on what we hoped, wanted, or expected. With the hostility presented to Biden from within his own party and the public nature of that hostility, him being replaced looks like the most strategic choice at this juncture.
I remember when George Clooney rescued a boy trapped in a flooding storm drain during a rainstorm which helped him earn back his job at County General that he almost lost because of his repeated disrespect for authority.
I remember when George Clooney had meetings with Obama on the crisis in the Sudan and is a member of a foreign policy think tank, in addition to co-founding an anti-corruption NGO and being a consistent supporter of the Democratic Party, both verbally and in fundraising.
Jokes aside, his wife is wicked smart and she must have seen something in him besides that ass.
I mean if George Clooney proposed to you, would you say no?
One way to get on a wicked smart lawyer's bad side is to marry her husband.
So yes.