In interviews with NBC News, prominent members of the "Abandon Harris" maintained they made the right decision to either not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris or cast their ballot for Donald Trump despite previously being in the Democrats' camp.As NBC's Jillian Frankel reported, members of the m...

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Key leaders of the “Abandon Harris” movement, which encouraged voters to oppose Kamala Harris due to U.S. support for Israel during the Gaza war, are now expressing unease about Trump’s incoming administration.

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

However, concerns are growing over his Cabinet picks, such as Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard, which some see as troubling for Muslim communities.

  • @[email protected]
    12•10 days ago

    Did we all just collectively forget that the DNC was panicking about rushing the vote for Kamala as fast as possible to avoid lawsuits from Republican states that could have kept her off the ballot?? If that happened then Trump would just have won by default.

    We’re in this fantasy world that we could have had a primary. It’s stubborn old fucking Bidens fault that we were in this position. There was no time to have a primary even if I really really really wish there was. Biden decided that even though he doesn’t know where he is 90% of the time he was The Best Person™ to run against Trump because pretty much every human being that obtains some sort of power for any meaningful amount of time becomes a narcissistic asshole.

    This is 100% on the old fuck Biden for not accepting that death comes for us all and decline is a real thing. He just plugged his ears and went “lalalalalalala I can’t hear you!” until someone told him he just finished a debate and it went horribly.

    • @[email protected]
      6•10 days ago

      Biden was incapable of leading from the moment he was elected and the party could have forced him out much sooner if they were committed to having competent leadership through the next election cycle.

      Edit: also, if they had forced him out, perhaps by invoking the 25th amendment during his term, I have zero doubt they would have proceeded with Kamala as if she was the incumbent and foregone a primary anyways.

      They will pull myriad post-hoc excuses out of their ass, as they did to get Biden elected in the first place and is their specialty as a party, but those are the facts. The rest is just noise.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      -8•10 days ago

      Did we all just collectively forget that the DNC was panicking about rushing the vote for Kamala as fast as possible to avoid lawsuits from Republican states that could have kept her off the ballot?? If that happened then Trump would just have won by default.

      What?

      As far as I know all those states would have just listed “Democratic Party”…

      Like, that’s how the electoral college works. The party with the most votes gets to appoint electors and then they cast the vote for a person.

      The name being on the ballot or just the party doesn’t matter. The DNC lied that it would matter to stop people from fighting Kamala’s anointment.

      Same as they lied about “keys to the war cheat” that was the victory fund that the candidate and the DNC have control over, both have unrestricted access to the funds and there’s basically no accountability with it.

      We’re in this fantasy world that we could have had a primary.

      I stopped reading here.

      We can’t really continue until you recognize the above. Then we can build off that if you still have questions.

      • @[email protected]
        1•10 days ago

        https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/johnson-replacing-biden-ticket-wrong-unlawful/story?id=112129063

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/replace-biden-some-republicans-say-thats-illegal-and-plan-to-file-lawsuits-to-stop-it-195047059.html?guccounter=1

        That’s just a few articles after a very brief search. What do you think Republicans were freaking out about when Colorado tried to do the same thing to Trump because he really legally shouldn’t have been allowed to be on the ballot because of his involvement with jan 6th?

        I get how the electoral college works, but the states decide how their elections are run and if the state chose to remove her then it’s not clear if there would have been a Democrat on their ballot at all. It’s not a federal thing. it’s 100x harder to get people to know to write in Kamala and to actually do it, than to just have an easy circle there for them to fill with her name in it so whether the legal challenges would have been successful or not, it’s not the best gamble to try to push it when we know how stacked against “us” the courts are.

        None of this is to really defend the DNC, I fucking hate them and hope the party burns so we can rebuild something where the people actually give a shit about us. I just don’t think in the timeframe we had there was any reality where we could have taken the time for a primary nor did there seem to be any contenders that wanted to cause a disruption that close to the election.