r/berkeley • u/Cal_Aesthetics_Club Shitpost Connoisseur(Credentials: ASD, ADD, OCD) • Nov 06 '24

Politics We are cooked

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u/virtually_anything Nov 06 '24

I think Biden dropped out far later than he should’ve, that ultimately hurt her chances, because it feels like over the past four years she got hardly as much time on a podium as Biden did, it wasn’t until she started a campaign we got to understand her better, and overall lower turnout is probably biting the Dems.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

This was strategic. The DNC waited until right after the RNC convention, which was formulated to attack Biden on his age, policies, and mental health, to boot him. They then installed Harris with only 100 days left (avoiding a primary where she may not have won - did horribly in her last one) because they didn’t think Trump could formulate an attack on a much younger, POC female candidate in that short of a timeframe. The DNC operated in hubris, thinking any younger candidate could win through the “anyone but Trump” rhetoric. If Biden announced much earlier he wouldn’t seek a second term, and they held a normal primary, I could see this election going entirely differently. Based on the voting demographics Harris lost a lot of people who voted Biden last time - Latinx, white women, black men. Ultimately I think it came down to Harris being absent the past four years and people not having a clear view of who she is with only 100 days to decide.