Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, scheduled the virtual meeting for Sunday with ranking committee members, according to multiple reports, even as Biden struck a defiant posture in Friday’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Well, I’m in California so it’s going solid blue. My vote was always going to a third party candidate. I’m registered No Party Preference. I left the corporate Democratic party after 2016.
Do I want Trump to win? Hell no! I’ve been calling for Biden to be replaced because I genuinely don’t believe he can beat Trump. Newsom or Whitmer are the two I could see possibly beating Trump. I still think it would be a really close race with either of them but better odds than Biden.
Sidenote, I still vote mostly down ticket Dems for local and state positions if there’s no other parties running for those positions.
Registered no party preference?
Ok I think I finally need this explained to me as a non American.
I always assumed when I saw registered rep/dem was equivalent to being a party member (of the lowest level). Here in the UK I can be a member of whomever I like and get a vote on party leader (this is why I assumed this) bur I don’t need to regerster shit with anyone on my preferences
Here’s what it means to register as NPP (No Party Preference)
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference
Edit: adding a list of qualified political parties https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/qualified-political-parties
The second paragraph kinda hurt my brain.
I’m not sure I can wrap my brain around non party members nominating anything for a party
I had to re-register as Dem to vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary and then back to NPP after.
I think this is where I’m struggling. To do the equivalent of thar here I’d have to join the party and ve eligible under the party rules. Even if it was just for 1 (whatever minimum requirement they wanted)
It’s definitely a confusing system. In the US, you are not automatically registered to vote. You have to register by certain deadlines before the elections, but can also cast a provisional ballot if you had issues registering or find out at the polling place you aren’t registered.
You’ll find it gets even more confusing. Our primary process differs from state to state. In some states you need to be a member of a party to vote on who gets to run for that party. Since many states are essentially one party, that process is where real democracy happens. In other states you can choose the day of to vote in one primary or another. In a general sense, the party itself has no say in who runs. They are able to play with funding and the conventions can have weird rules for things like presidents.
On election day, you of course vote for whoever you want.
Compared to the UK, our party leadership is very weak and driven by candidates and donors. Where you elect party leaders that then direct who gets to run, whoever we elect to run start to dictate how the party works. For the most part, short of directly volunteering, the vast majority don’t interact with the party itself at all.
Do you have a specific candidate that most fits with your ideals?
The two I would consider voting for are Dr. Jill Stein or Dr. Cornel West. They are closest to my ideals for POTUS.
Oof.