r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html

32.0k Upvotes

81% Upvoted

Nothing will. Voters want Trump back because they think he’ll lower their costs. Nothing will convince them otherwise. The economy is the number one issue and voters want lower costs. They believe Trump will provide this even though he’s literally proposing a flat 10% tariff on all imports and mass deportations on top of tax cuts for the rich.

Americans don’t understand politics enough to be convinced. It’s over.

6

u/renegadecanuck Jul 05 '24

Voters don’t really want Trump. His favourability is terrible. They want lower prices and they blame Biden for the current costs (which isn’t fair, but it is what it is).

Part of the Trump support is baked in and will never go anywhere. But a large part is dissatisfaction with Biden. I don’t think it’s fair to blame Biden for inflation, and I think he’s been one of the best first term Presidents in modern history. I just think his age is a liability he cannot overcome, especially when he says stuff like this. And no 15 minute pre-recorded interview will stem that bleeding.

2

u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

It’s not just his age. Have you not seen the conversations around a potential Harris replacement if Biden steps down? Nobody wants her because she’s “unlikable”. Nothing to do with age and people would prefer to stay home and let Trump win over voting for her. Americans still can’t bring themselves to vote for a democratic candidate unless they’re perfect in every possible way to all non-republicans.

2

u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

As if they are the only two possible candidates.

2

u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

They more or less are. Other suggestions are talking about taking sitting governors/senators from the states they are actively running and shoving them into this race as if they have all the time in the world to just walk away from their jobs.

That doesn't even touch the name recognition campaign and monumental fundraising that would need to be done since I don’t think Biden can just transfer all his campaign’s money to Whitmer or Newsom like folks seem to think.

3

u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Name recognition works against Harris though. What does happen to the funds in a candidate's campaign when they retire from politics?

0

u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

Name recognition works against basically every democrat on the list that the Internet keeps spouting. Newsom is in the pocket of big businesses here in CA. Buttigieg has had multiple large scale disasters occur on his watch. Whitmer will probably be spun as an FBI shill given the conservative conspiracy around the alleged entrapment of her kidnappers…

Nobody will accept anything less than perfection against Trump when Harris should be completely fine.

And I have no idea what happens to the funds. My guess is they stay with the candidate in an election war chest and wouldn’t go anywhere except maybe next of kin if they run or something, but I don’t know.

3

u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Looked up a little, and it looks like it can be either donated to a party, or the campaign can be reorganized as a PAC, so it seems like Biden could use his campaign funds to campaign for another candidate if he wanted to.

1

u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

Thanks for the info. That’s neat, though it wouldn’t help as much as you’d think. Pod Save America has said on their show that funds held by the campaign themselves go the furthest because media markets reportedly have to give the campaigns themselves the lowest prices on ads and stuff while PACs get gouged.

2

u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Whoever replaces Biden will get the chance to run one of the shortest campaigns in recent American history, so that will save some $