…Initial evidence suggests that, in a rematch between Biden and Trump, a No Labels and/or West campaign could pull marginal support from Biden and subtly shift the election toward Trump. Whether this would actually make for a potential spoiler, though, is a different question: History — and common sense — suggest that these possible third-party candidates would be most likely to affect the outcome if the overall race were close. But in our deeply divided political era, close elections have been the norm, which makes a spoiler candidacy a live possibility…
This possibility is exactly why we need a Democrat who isn’t just a “not Trump” candidate.
Yeah but we’re not going to get a Democrat who isn’t the sitting President as the nominee. There’s no options, Biden is President and Biden is thr democratic nominee. I’d like someone better, but he’s the guy thathas to beat Trump. The beat news is that he did it before, but I hope he has more tools in his bag besides “not Trump.”
Right but like, who determined this? Oh thats right, unelected party officials who feel that a sitting president is “entitled” to run again.
Plus, this ignores that at the time, some of the people pushing for Biden in 2020 even said that he was supposed to “right the ship” so that “someone younger” could take the reigns in 4 years. It was literally one of the counterpoints to those of us who opposed his nomination then for this exact reasoning, that once in office he’d feel entitled to running for re-election because that’s what a sitting president does.
It’s the same sort of dynastic political thinking that you see in local party politics where their kids who went to school for politics are basically groomed by the party establishment to replace them.