• UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      They’re saying that if Biden died right now, President Harris would lose to Trump. Which she almost certainly would.

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        9 months ago

        Eh. I don’t think so. She’s not Hillary Clinton she knows how to campaign and I’m pretty sure a dead fish could beat Trump after his last term.

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          9 months ago

          I hope so, but after his rise to power I don’t know what to think, I just know we can’t get complacent. But I have no idea what the fuck the American people want so I have no idea if Harris would be seen as a good candidate by the non trump demographic.

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            9 months ago

            According to polls she’s just outside the margin of error. (Usually about 3 percent). Polls that have her farther out also have Biden losing.

            So that seems horrible but politics is weird and the act of swearing her in will actually bump her in the polls. Any competent politician will turn that into a “rally” moment. And this close to the election they can ride that bump straight into November.