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AOC surges to lead in 2028 primary for first time (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 month ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah, yes, because Biden had such radical forward thinking progressive views. He was in no way a status-quo, pro-corporate candidate that didn't inspire anyone....

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Biden actively pilfered Bernie's platform after winning the primary, so he was a forward thinking progressive compared to Harris and Hillary. Harris in particular explicitly ran to the right of Biden; she wasn't exactly subtle about this. Perhaps more importantly, however, he had COVID on his side. Plenty of voters (33% of all voters and 57% of Biden voters) considered competent handling of COVID one of their two most important issues when voting; if COVID hadn't happened or had happened under Biden's watch Trump would've wiped the floor with him.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ah, yes, because Biden had such radical forward thinking progressive views.

Biden ran on a lot of progressive policy. Childcare, revisiting the public option, family leave, rescheduling cannabis. They were all lies that killed the party's credibility and made the 2024 bid a hard sell even before the genocide, regardless of which democrat was the candidate.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden was able to run on a "lesser evil" platform. He won because he wasn't Trump. Hillary or Harris could have won in 2020.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

That and also he ran on a platform of "if you didn't vote for him you weren't black," so I'm sure that helped out. Probably a lot of suburban whites thought they'd leave the booth magically Trudeau'd up.

(Clearly I'm just making fun of Biden's statement with a little jab at Canadian Blackface and white kids, laugh about it it isn't that serious.)