Vox is pushing her. They ask several people in south Carolina and only show one cite Palestine against wanting her to run again. One woman says no don’t run, she’s too smart so people won’t like her.

The harshest criticism they give AIT time to is that somewhere around minute 28 a democratic insider says “the campaign needs to be Bye Bye Biden. Like the backstreet boys”. But not for any reason other than the biden campaign being unpopular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0Y9utkAkw

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    Why on earth would you ask people from South Carolina. The Carolinas exist in a cursed rural Grand Theft Auto pocket dimension, they’re what people think Florida is like. South Carolina politics infamously doesn’t map to the rest of the country at all and the Democrats there are basically just the James Clyburn Party.

    It’s a state that’s only ever used to manufacture consent for centrist Dems because it has an early primary and some of the most right wing voters in the country.

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    Yes DNC, release Morbius again, we’ll all vote this time, we’ll all bring our zoomer friends you can burn a wicker man Bernie Sanders at MSG it will be great!

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    The money backing them knows Republicans are bound to lose (if, by some miracle, our electoral process resists enough of their tampering), so they’re arranging their backup plan now.

    Frankly, I think it’s going to have to come to progressives splitting away from the Dems due to too much money controlling the party.

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    Kamala vs AOC would be a boon for popularizing the differentiation between leftists and liberals

    AOC would be forced to reckon with her capitulation to Harris in 2024, in fact Harris will likely throw it in her face “You supported my foreign policy in 2024, why the flip flop?

    How AOC responds to that is frankly irrelevant, just the fact that exchange will almost certainly take place is educational enough for left-lib wafflers

    Harris running would be useful enough, since libs will be stuck arguing in favor of a proven loser and so will always be on the defensive, which makes rhetorical concessions (especially on Palestine) likely

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      I don’t think she should or would win.

      Should: Remember that “tirelessly working for a ceasefire” lie? She hitched her wagon to the genocides by running cover for them and I don’t see principled anti-imperialists on the left trusting her or rewarding her for that. Plus demonization of Venezuela, Cuba, Iran. I certainly won’t vote for her. She’s called AOCIA for a reason.

      Would: she’s got terrible political instincts and has shown herself to be very fickle. That doesn’t inspire public confidence. If she won’t stand up to something as clearcut as genocide she won’t stand up for anything.

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        I don’t see principled anti-imperialists on the left trusting her or rewarding her for that.

        That’s… A nearly nonexistent demographic in America, though. I have no opinions on whether she would win but if she doesn’t it’s not because she’s soft on imperialism.

        Edit: fuck hahaha I completely misread your post. Yeah I totally agree.

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        she doesn’t need hexbear votes, she needs trump fanatics to stay home, wine moms and radlibs to be enthusiastic, and to do better with black voters than sanders did.

        until it happens a second time i have to think 2024 swinging on a foreign policy position is an anomaly in american politics, but maybe trump will drag this shit out long enough for “peace with iran” to be a 2028 election issue.