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Migs's avatar

Agreed she made the case well but…I don’t think it matters. I never even heard that and I pay attention to the news. Shoot Biden has done like 5 or 7 events last week and I didn’t see much other than a clip about them. They just aren’t covered and I don’t think of Kamala became the nominee it would change that much either (hard to drown out crazy).

Also I’m not sure that people care about prosecuting the case against Trump. I mean, do you know anybody that doesn’t have an opinion on Trump? I don’t.

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Still Trying's avatar

It's depressing how little coverage she gets; the White House has been putting her out there more, but I rarely hear any in depth discussions of what she's doing--or any discussion, really, except her campaign work on women's health issues. She goes to international meetings and we get pictures, but not much talk about what was accomplished. The coverage is all so lightweight. I wonder how much is a PR failure and how much is the media.

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Migs's avatar

It’s not just her though. Biden doesn’t get much attention either (I’m not talking about editorials talking about how good or bad he is). Biden actually does a lot of events they just aren’t covered. Kamala has been doing a ton of events too. You know what her campaign team said “we can’t get anyone to show up!” Literally she invites national reporters on Air Force 2 to go with her to events they just don’t think it’s interesting. I highly recommend that you listen to the most relent Ezra Klein interview with a reporter that wrote a book about her. They talk about this in depths.

In my mind here is the fundamental problem: Biden and Harris are pretty normal run of the mill politicians. They are competing for coverage with an entire movement that is insane. They say and do crazy shit like every day. They just can’t breakthrough.

You never hear about Harris/biden meeting/events because they are boring but what the media wants is wwe.

What makes it worst is that because the media always has to be negative they only cover Biden or Harris when they make a mistake. We are immune to trumps crazy but dems mistakes make us think this happens all the time.

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Still Trying's avatar

The WWE problem is real. Thanks for the tip about the Ezra interview; will look for it.

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Migs's avatar

From last week. She also talks about her weaknesses and strengths but the part about the press just not being interested in anything she does says a lot.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Like I said this morning ;it is all about setting the narrative. Who is the referendum on.It is Biden and age and the debate. Not on Trump. It only will get worse. An open convention? There are always risks. As Sarah says; "it is all about defeating Trump".

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Migs's avatar

Yep agree. I’m not trying to be argumentative but…how does it make the election about candidate a not Trump? I guess I don’t see how swapping someone else into the big chair does that.

Plus, this election will be about Trump period. That isn’t changing. He sucks all oxygen out of the room. He is incapable of NOT being the main thing.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Right now.Biden and age is the thing. And it is not like Trump has been Whip Van Winkle the past few years.

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Migs's avatar

lol. True but if you swap Biden out you will get 5 weeks of who will the “candidate be?”

All bad options

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