Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

There are many democrats who take issue with it. I for one.

You’ve said you haven’t been tuned in a while so your confusion is somewhat understandable. Except none of the people you mention have the power to remove the President of the United States, he left of his own accord. The race is now between Trump and Harris. In July alone, Harris picked up $310m in donations - not from “billionaire donors”, her average donation was $20. She also reacquired all of Biden’s released delegates, securing over 99% of the delegates as of Monday and is now the confirmed nominee. And for those who follow them, the polls and the bookies have both shown the inflection in the race away from Trump, toward Harris.

Basically what we’re getting here is that Trumpers, upset with how this is going, and unable to debate policy because Project 2025 is nuclear waste, are circling back on “but Biden” narratives almost 2 and a half weeks since he dropped out. It reeks of desperation from a campaign who has run out of ideas, screaming into the void about all the “Brandon” merchandise they blew all their money on. Trump simultaneously telling the media he’s too scared to debate her because “you know who I am you know who she is” while simultaneously going to his rallies and saying “we have to try hard to define her” - in essence, he’s having a nervous breakdown.

His supporters will still be crying about Biden dropping out for weeks after Harris has already won the election the way things are going. When are they going to pick themselves up by their bootstraps? Less than 90 days to Election Day and MAGA is still almost 3 weeks into “what the hell just happened?” If they blink much longer this is going to be a one horse race.

Is it not more concerning that a rapist and felon was the preferred presidential choice of millions of Americans to Biden, who seemed to only remain universally popular among posters on Boards who couldn’t vote for him.

Can you link me to their website, forum, or Facebook group please? I'd like to see how they're feeling after last night.

People go with whomever they have the most in common with.

Iirc, you're based in Ireland so are you claiming to be a registered member of the Democrat party?

Give those who voted for the previous candidate an opportunity to vote for their replacement.

Sure, the lad had a Russia thread closed yesterday cos they're banned from the main ukr / Russia thread. Deffo a democrat:-)

Pretty clear why that approach isn't being followed. A contested convention would basically have a party choosing a candidate and it eating into campaigning time. The reality is, the party is fully behind her. Any credible opponents have backed her and the party are not violating their rules.

It's also pretty clear that in general, there's large scale support of her as the candidate. The only real objections are from the likes of Trump or his supporters. The average member of the party want Trump to lose, that's the reality.

chefs kiss backpedaling

Nobody is running against Harris though. The delegates (who represent the peoples votes) have to officially give their votes as part of the DNC. If other candidates did decide to run against Harris and enough people notified their delegate that they wanted to switch to that candidate, they likely could have done so. Also worth noting Delegates are elected officials.

But nobody is running against Harris. And delegates haven't signalled that they're getting calls to pull their support from Harris instead.

You're also talking about arranging a mass re-run of the Primaries at extremely short notice, which would be borderline impossible.

It's unfortunate Biden didn't drop out or decide to just do one term before the Primaries. I know that's what I would have preferred (though given that Harris only has less than 4 months of campaigning, also less time for her to find a way to f*ck it up). But there are stringent election rules and laws, and nobody has been able to point to an actual breach of those rules and laws. Biden stepped down when he did because it was fast approaching the last chance for him to step down and he had to make the final decision as to whether or not he'd run again.

The Democratic nominee has to be finalised at the DNC where they're voted for by the delegates. That hasn't happened yet (August 19-22). Kamala is the nominee because she's running unopposed as the only candidate to secure enough delegate support to be on the ballot.

Harris takes a commanding lead in the polls for those who celebrate:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/kamala-harris-seizes-lead-over-trump-in-both-major-polling-averages-rcp-and-538/