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This logic destroys my fucking brain cells.
And trump/republicans would???!? What a fucking joke of an article to push lmao.
A reminder trump is a few years younger than Biden. Not by much.
If Trump drops dead from being old, bully for us. If Biden drops dead but Trump doesn't we are fucked. That is the issue and risk. That is why we want a younger candidate. Why take the risk when you can avoid i?
Why?
Because Biden is still the person with the best odds to defeat Trump in an election.
That's really all there is to it.
This doesn't make any sense to me. If Biden dies and Trump doesn't then we will still have the VP. By the time the next election rolls around, assuming Trump loses, Trump will have already faded into obscurity.
They're saying that if Biden died right now, President Harris would lose to Trump. Which she almost certainly would.
I also want this, but it will not fucking happen this year. Both sides don’t play fair, just look at what they did to Bernie Sanders when he was fucking running.
Personally I was a fan of Yang too, but as far as I can tell, this machine seems to only have 2 gears. You can’t expect to try and hot swap one of those out without getting your fingers punched.
Local elections were always more effective, I think everyone could probably agree with that
Except there is a line of succession for president, whereas trump got to pick RBG'S successor.
Which of course, was 100% her fault. Holding on to power into your 90s is really fucking stupid.
Yeah, I'm confused about this take. RBG should have stepped down because by not doing it she created the opportunity for Trump to tilt the majorities in the Supreme Court. Notably, nobody had the balls to criticise her for it, even after she died and made that exact thing happen.
If Biden dies in office Trump doesn't get to pick the vice president. And somehow he still gets constant crap despite the other guy being just as old.
We're doing "but her emails" again. I thought we weren't gonna do "but her emails" again.
I really wonder how much of this “Biden old” talk is just GOP propaganda.
It might be a "broken clock is right twice a day" situation.
Jon Stewart's glorious return to The Daily Show covered this very topic.
Liberals have the right to question our leadership. It's okay for us to wonder if the president has the ability to make good decisions.
The problem is that conservatives won't hear the same questions for their candidate.
Liberals have the right to question our leadership.
And those of us to the left of liberals have the right to question the leadership liberals have stuck us with.
Exactly. You don’t get to have orthodoxy when your party is made up of a massive coalition because of our shitty voting system.
I don’t want to vote for Biden, but I’m gonna. And I reserve the right to be unhappy about it and express this.
But if the Democratic Party wants to be jackboots like the Rs then democracy is already dead here.
Is it propaganda if it's true? 80 is old as fuck.
Name one other industry or company who would hire an 80 year old. Not saying he can't do the job, just saying 80 is fucking old to still be working and it's a valid concern.
Funny how they never seem to mention trumps age even though they are almost the same age...
I'm not sure what "mistake" Biden could be repeating here. If he dies in office, Harris becomes President.
If they want to argue that if he dies before the election that leaves the Democrats with no clear candidate which would lead to a Trump win they need to be more clear about that.
Harris, undoubtably, would see herself as the candidate as the sitting President, which makes sense, see Johnson - 1964, but her unpopularity even among her own staff would make her unelectable.
But that's not a Biden problem and that's not the same mistake Ginsberg made.
My only real concern is if he dies after getting on the ballot, but before January 20th. We need him in a plastic bubble those months.
There's a fantastic novel on the topic called "The People's Choice" by Jeff Greenfield of all people.
Here's the scenario:
Election happens, winner dies, but he dies before the electoral certification.
VP thinks he's the candidate, but he isn't.
The 2nd place finisher argues he should be President as the next largest vote getter.
Faithless electors then decide who becomes President.
Manufactured outrage. It’s not like he could legally do another term after he’s elected in ‘24.
He’s extremely competent, ethical, and experienced.
That's not how the presidency works? If he dies, the Senate can't hold the presidency open until they place a Republican in there. Kamala Harris just steps into the position.
But then again, this is Business Insider.
So we’d get president Harris. What’s the issue?
Normally I would not like that outcome, but considering that the alternative is a man who thinks “indictment” starts with the letter N, I can stomach it.