Kamala should run for president again in 2028

[JRDelirious]

Well but that’s virtually every VP’s problem unless it’s someone who already came in as a power player like LBJ or Cheney.

[kenobi_65]

@JRDelirious

Well but that’s virtually every VP’s problem unless it’s someone who already came in as a power player like LBJ or Cheney

You’re not wrong. However, in the case of Harris, it was pretty clear that when she was initially chosen as the running mate, it was, in part, to have a younger heir apparent to a president who would be 82 at the end of his first term; though Biden never publicly said nor promised that he would only serve one term, he did, in 2020, characterize himself as a “transition” figure, which implied (but did not overtly state) the idea of a one-term presidency:

That “transition” line is important, because it’s one Biden himself used publicly and on the record. “I view myself as a transition candidate,” Biden said at an online fundraiser in April 2020. In March of that year, at a rally where his eventual VP pick Kamala Harris was by his side, he used similar language: “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.”

But, by 2021, Biden was already saying that he would run for re-election; it seems to me that any thought of positioning Harris as his successor, and crafting her role as VP to publicly demonstrate her having the experience for the role, went out the window by that point.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/

[Aeschines]

Biden’s running again was one of the greatest acts of political idiocy in American history.

[BlankSlate]

@asterion

I’m still convinced that had Biden announced in 2023 that he wasn’t running there would be no way she would have done any better than she did in 2020.

As the incumbent vice-president, I’m confident she would have done much better in 2024 than she did in 2020 as a relative unknown. Would she have won? Who knows? People like Shapiro, Whitmer, Beshears, Pritzker, Booker, Cooper et al. would have joined the race. I sure do wish it went down that way, though.

[JRDelirious]

@BlankSlate

Would she have won? Who knows? People like Shapiro, Whitmer, Beshears, Pritzker, Booker, Cooper et al. would have joined the race. I sure do wish it went down that way, though.

True, at least there would have been a chance to put them (and their proposals) all to the test before choosing —and yes, he would have wanted to announce that by summer of 2023 to give everyone a fair head start for Iowa/NH in January of ‘24.

[DrDeth]

@Magniankh

Kamala was ok, but the Democratic party is overall extremely impotent. They can’t beat an overweight, orange, uneducated, narcissistic, entitled rich boy?

They did in 2020. Remember, Right Wing Populism is sweeping the world, not just in the USA. It is very popular.

@Procrustus

I don’t see much to blame her for. She did a good job. Blame the voters.

Right.

@Aeschines

Biden’s running again was one of the greatest acts of political idiocy in American history.

The one man who beat trump?

[kenobi_65]

@DrDeth

They did in 2020.

They did, but on Earth-2, where there was never a COVID-19, they wouldn’t have. In other words: they beat Trump in 2020, not because they had an amazing candidate, or an amazing strategy, but because of a unique situation. Though the Trump administration’s response to COVID was a mess, that response wasn’t the reason he lost; it was that the economy had completely gone into the tank.

[PastTense]

@PastTense

Kamala Harris: 107 Days, Her Book on the Election Campaign, is to be Published Sept. 23

And that is today–if anyone is interested in buying it.

[E-DUB]

Truman could have run anytime. The 22nd specifically exempted the president in office at the time of its’ adoption.

[nearwildheaven]

I was quite surprised in 2008 how few people remembered Geraldine Ferraro.

Geraldine Ferraro

[Ancient_Nerd]

Sara Palin made a bigger splash but, her fifteen minutes seems to be over.