Kamala “I believe Biden’s accusers!”

Also Kamala “Sure Biden, I’ll be your Vice President!”

Bernie Bros., which have drastically decreased in number, are always going to be Bernie or bust no matter who Biden chose for his VP. Thankfully, only the die-hard remain, and many understand that voting for policy is greater than voting for the name on the ballot this time.

I don't think misogynists or racists, or immature clowns, would be moving from Trump over to Biden no matter his VP choice anyway, so he and the Republicans can keep them.

Kamala being authoritative, "bossy", is a positive. I "get" that it can be used negatively against her by those groups mentioned above, but saying otherwise is some backward belief that still lingers in today's politics (America), which is long overdue in needing squashed. And Kamala being more prominent than the usual VP-candidate is important right now. Not to mention that she actually has qualifications and isn't a "token" pick, unlike our TV personality who still thinks his duty as President is the same as that on a reality show.

The campaign will be very unique as most events will have no audience and none of their accompanying reactions. Communication skills will be utterly massive here.

Both Biden and Kamala crushed their intro event today. Trump can be entertaining but not close their level and Pence is laughably out of his league and an orator compared to them.

She has this breezy style that not many politicians have.

She is an elite, ultra high-end communicator when she is on her game. Her biggest issue in the past has been walking the line between coming off as confident and arrogant - she absolutely has moments where she comes off as condescending which is a huge turn off. It isn't because she is a POC or woman, either- her tone is just exceptionally sharp in those moments.

Biden - being such an open beacon for decency and empathy - throwing his full support behind her humanizes her on its own a bit. He may be able to bring out the the warmer traits of her more than she was able to on the campaign trail herself.

Yes but it may still affect their turnout

I see 2016 as having extreme anti-Trump and extreme anti-Hillary emotion (she rated just as high in "voting against" and unfavorability polls), but pro-Trump supporters were more passionate than pro-Hillary which had a lot of lukewarm progressives. So Trump had the stronger turnout leading to election day upset.

As this 538 article suggested https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/wh ... m-problem/ the case for Biden over Hillary is that even though he's likely to be weak in pro-turnout passion compared to Trump, the idea would be that anti-Trump passion is far stronger than anti-Biden who doesn't attract the heat Hillary did. So the Democrats are hoping this cancels out and leads Biden's turnout to be as good or better thanks to anti-Trump voters. However if Harris becomes the one the conservatives rally against, this could tip the scales and make them both energized to vote for Trump and against her.

What kind of mental gymnastics?

The GOP had almost 30 years of building up hatred against Hillary Clinton at their disposal. They have no time to do the same thing to Kamala Harris, and all polls that came out today show her as having a positive net favorability rating.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/1 ... ick-394734

You're also, of course, totally ignoring the enthusiasm she could bring to the ticket, not that I'm surprised.

Well we've already gotten to "Kamala isn't a real American, she's a fake like Obama."

The same people: "why does everyone call us racist?"

I mean there's so many reasons to not like her already, yet they have to take it there immediately. That is all the base wants to hear.

Yes who could forget how successful their birtherism bullshit was against Obama who promptly got crushed by McCain as a result

Democratic Convention Day 1:

Can they sway voters who are supposedly "swing"?





National anthem



The Rising



There were some good personal testimonials from regular citizens. But I'd prefer having interviews with them in news segment-style. It'd feel less infomercial-like.

This election is truly the Democrats to lose. They're really good at it though, but their messaging is on point. Positvity. Equality. Unity. Dignity. Decency. Who would have expected prominent Republicans to come out and endorse Biden this week AND speak at the DNC. Cindy McCain being the most recent, and she certainly won't be the last.

What we're going to see from the RNC is just a bunch of angry, mostly old white men, yelling throughout the whole convention. Sewing more division. Crying about conspiracies. Spewing insults and hate. There are good conservatives. It's pretty sad that the GOP has dissolved into the party it is today just to accommodate one big child. They are better than him. Here's hoping the GOP can change, evolve, or even just return to what it was.

Why do Republicans sow division and Democrats don’t? It takes 2 to be divided.

He got them the win though.

I cannot imagine someone like Cruz would have beat Hillary.

Making AOC endorse Bernie during the Democrat convention was a weird choice

It was not a weird choice. It's standard procedure. Do your research.

They could have picked any random congress person instead of one of the most popular figures on the left, and then had AOC endorse Biden in a different segment if she was willing to. If she wasn’t, they were better off having AOC say nothing at all at the convention than give her 60 seconds to support Bernie.

Laura Loomer is a nutter who probably shouldn’t be in congress, but love seeing a human molotov cocktail thrown at free speech censorship by big tech, with someone who’s banned on almost literally every platform winning a Republican primary. She would definitely be the Squad’s nemesis if she got in.

Not Republicans as in all Republicans. Rather, the "Republicans" that have become the face of the party and will be largely representing them (basically Trump at this point) at the RNC.

I know MANY Republicans in my life, many more than Democrats, and the vast majority of them aren't like them. They've maintained their kindness and haven't devolved into mean people. You do not have to throw yourself behind a man like Trump, support him, or even engage in his behavior in order to be a conservative and display party "loyalty."

Most tend to avoid discussing politics these days, but it seems like a some of them are going to sit this election out and not vote for Trump. And they likely won't vote for Biden due to conflicts of interest, which is fine. I understand their decision because they know how to separate Trump from the party, it shows growth and a desire to move beyond him. And this is notably important because Republicans are known to unite behind their candidate no matter what, so they're clearly disgruntled by him.



True, which is why it's sad they've had to become what they are today to gain power. I'm not saying Democrats don't engage in hateful behavior, they do; it's just not on such a grand scale like we've seen these past four-years and doesn't transform the party and its platform, its messaging, to conform around them.

I blame the woke by far the most for the division, but it would take pissing off too many people to go into detail why...

This election will come down to whether the moderate Democrats vote with the radical left, or whether they vote Trump to form an anti-woke alliance in my opinion.

Maybe she volunteered to speak in support of Bernie. She is a prominent progressive. This is not Trump convention. You don't have to proclaim full loyalty to Biden in order to speak in a roll call.

Maybe you will change your mind when FEMA funding to your state gets cut off because it did not vote for Trump. Maybe you will change your mind if you know blacks living in places with a long history of housing segregation. Maybe you will change your mind if you are a Muslim. Maybe.

Or maybe when you hear "Go back to your country!" from some fellow Americans.

Maybe.

Yes but it was the Democrats decision at the end of the day to pick AOC as the nominator. I don't blame AOC or Bernie, I just think it was a bad decision by the establishment organizing the convention.

This is Shack we are talking about so maybe not