For the first time I think there is a decent chance that Biden steps down. Maybe like 35% chance. If he goes it'll be because he is threatening down ballot races and folks think Kamala helps there. Progressives don't influence him, and they know it.
*whispers* Maybe Bernie has been an idiot whose wrong about every Dem vs Dem issue for decades . . . /whispering
I think Nina Turner said it all pretty clearly in CNN last week:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/10/politics/aoc-sanders-biden-progressives/index.html“I think we’re getting too caught up in a mess that we didn’t make,” Turner said of the infighting over Biden’s fate. “The more moderate neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party will never let progressives have a progressive candidate, so why are we sweating this?”
The suggestion that progressives could vault one of their own to the nomination during an open convention, Turner added, was little more than fan fiction.
“We don’t have a horse in this race,” she said. “So we need to settle down and we need to focus on pushing and keep doing what we’re doing, which is to try to push this party further to the left. Whoever it is, we are going to push them and make demands.”
