Not sure if you guys watched the interview Kamala had on Fox News. Why did she agree to that? Is she that delusional?
Is the leftist bubble that strong that she did not expect questions on immigration or economy?
There was a part where she said the experts agree that her economic plan will increase economy unlike Trump and she did not expect to be asked what she did for the past 3.5 years if she can save the economy.
She then became unstable and full TDS crazy.
She is, genuinely, an idiot. Joe Biden is senile, but he was still smarter than her. Her staff are retarded too.
That begs the question why the hell she was put into that position. Hillary can at least be explained by her being a devious, scheming cunt that most likely had leverage. But Kamala? There is no way in hell that she is anything but a mindless puppet and she is even more unlikable than Hillary.
Literal diversity hire who was sidelined in the administration.
Susan Rice was the real brains behind Biden and she fucked off as soon as it became clear he wasn't going to make it to another term.
Yeah, but why did they put her up as the presidential candidate? Feels like they want Trump to win.
Because above all else the democratic party elites are control freaks who wanted to deal with two situations:
A chaotic convention that illustrates the neolib-vs-progressive schism in the party, and the risk that an ACTUAL progressive might come out on top instead of a manufactured faux-gressive.
The relative ease of transferring state level campaign operations (and more importantly, money) from Biden-Harris to Harris-Walz.
She was the continuity-of-campaign choice. They would like to win, and Harris gave them a chance of winning, but losing control is more terrifying to the party leadership than losing the election.
I think they had to otherwise they had to return a ton of campaign funds.
Every 4-8 years they let the opposition party win so the normiecons go back to sleep.
Biden said his VP was going to be a "woman of color" before they even started vetting candidates. She was the best they could come up with as a diversity hire.
She isn't a completely mindless puppet. She's just a bit of an idiot.
She and Willie Brown out-maneuvered Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, and Clinton. The stolen Trump policies and pandering are all signature moves of Willie Brown. Biden was looking worse and worse before the debate, and Nancy was actually looking to push him out and get someone else in. Nancy wanted Shapiro, Obama's surrogate we're not clear about, and Clinton didn't mind Harris. Harris helped Pelosi push Biden out, then immediately betrayed Nancy and took over the Biden-Harris political organization to seize the funds and declare victory. Harris stole the candidacy while Obama was getting his shoes on, and Nancy thought they could have a competitive primary. But Harris fucked all of them over.
Remember, this woman is an evil prosecutor that likes to keep innocent people in prison, and sell her allied companies prison labor for kick-backs. She's a bit of an idiot, but with Willie Brown at her side, she's a bit of a ruthless actor. It's Willie who wants the white house. Biden, Nancy, and Pelosi were all left out to dry.
Problem is, this effort is too big of a challenge for any of them, let alone Willie Brown's cocksleve.
I think it's more straightforward than you do. As they were pushing Biden out, they realized that the sizable campaignb warchest would evaporate unless they kept Kamala as the option (and even then they weren't 100% sure).
However, I also think that much of the palace intrigues and infighting we're seeing also relates to how that money is spent and flows out of Kamala's grasp. Joe and Jill, in addition to being pissed about having that warchest taken from them, want to see Joe's legacy as being "the only person to ever beat Trump." Hence the sabotage there. I also think the Clintons have been snubbed in this, with respect to the money, so there may be some sabotage going on there too.
I don't understand the actual logistics behind the Biden/Harris campaign donations having to be returned.
I've never heard of anyone receiving a refund on a political donation. AFAIK, you don't get refunded even if the candidate steps down.
Is the idea that some of the campaign donations are still only pledges that haven't been collected?
Does it have something to do with suped PACs that may only release money on a discretionary basis?
I understand the legal argument that funds donated to Biden/Harris should only be donated to their campaign. But I'm sure the DNC could figure out some creative accounting to shuffle money around rather than return it.
Or is it a case of dead money where the money doesn't get returned but can only be used to pay off Biden/ Harris debts rather than be used by another frontrunner on new spending?
Nobody that would be a quality democrat candidate (Newsom and Beshear come to mind) would want to hitch themselves to this administration vs Trump.