President Biden’s reelection campaign raised more than $1 million through online fundraising alone in the 24 hours after the president’s Jan. 6 anniversary speech, according to numbers exclusively provided to The Hill.
Biden on Friday gave a full throated attack against former President Trump, his likely GOP opponent, and warned Americans that Trump’s reelection would pose a threat to American democracy. The president zeroed in on Jan. 6 to mark the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riots and argued in his remarks that democracy is on the ballot in 2024.
In response to the 24-hour fundraising haul, the Biden campaign noted that they see preserving democracy as a political winner for the president in 2024.
It’s a tactical move to avoid splitting the vote. Not that I agree with it, but it makes more sense from that perspective. I think we need better voting methods like ranked choice voting. That way people can vote for who they want and still vote for who they think will win.
Also, this doesn’t necessarily stop you from voting in any primary. Check if your state lets you register as independent and vote in a different party’s primary. That’s a great way to express your support for candidates that you prefer to be elected.
The only time a primary has “split the vote” in the general in modern history was when Clinton supporters voted Romney over Obama
And Obama still won.
Because even the majority of moderates know voting R is stupid. And no progressive is going to vote R.
So maybe if Biden lost wed see some vote trump out of spite.
But we’d likely see the same thing with Obama where lots of traditional non voters turn out
You just conveniently forgetting the time we handed Trump a 4 year term on a silver platter? Wasn’t that long ago.
Fortunately for us, being the coalition party of change and progress in general, we can actually admit when we make mistakes and try to learn lessons from them. If we couldn’t do that, we wouldn’t deserve anyone’s votes anyway.
not everyone did
was not allowed to vote
Are…
Are you really saying a primary is why Clinton lost?
Does that mean you’re arguing we shouldnt have any primaries at all?
I don’t understand how your comment is relevant if that’s not what you’re saying
Oh, absolutely Clinton lost because of the bad taste left from her primary, 100%. She handled the entire Bernie situation very, very poorly and paid the price for it.
No, this does not mean we should get rid of primaries, that is an extremely stupid idea.
😖🤚 getting rid of primary elections
😏👉 getting rid of two-party system
I have not seen this done with emojis before…
But…
Bernie supporters still overwhelming voted for her in the general.
The primary wasn’t why Clinton lost, she lost because she was a terrible candidate and no one on her campaign knew what the electoral college was.
And obviously, her team helping trump in the primary was a bigger reason she lost to trump in the general, although she’d have likely lost to anyone else too. The whole reason they helped trump was they thought he was the only candidate Hillary could win against.
I just don’t see any logic or basis in facts in your opinions man.
Got a source for that? I remember a lot of “maybe the DNC needs to learn a lesson.”
Which, they were right, and we did. But it came at enormous cost.
It’s insane people are still asking that…
And to be honest you’re starting to lose benefit of the doubt here.
A higher percentage of registered Dems voted McCain over Obama than Bernie primary voters voted for trump.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_and_liberal_support_for_John_McCain_in_2008
Normally I’d assume someone would figure out on their own that there’s a shit ton more registered Dems in 08 than people who voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016. And I wouldn’t think it was necessary to point out that a lot more than 10% of Bernie’s primary voter don’t always vote D or even consider themselves Democrats…
But the way this exchange has been going, I feel I need to explicitly mention that stuff.
You also shouldn’t be surprised if I don’t respond to any more of your comments at this point.
@givesomefucks and, in fact, it is that willingness to betray that is why the right wing controls the democratic party.
10% of democratic socialist supporters voting for Trump is terrifying. Do we have data on how many didn’t vote in the general at all?
10% of moderate dem voters supporting a moderate repub makes a lot more sense.
edit for a word
She won the popular vote by millions.
Ahem, we paid the price for it.