Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members

  • Zaktor@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    So you’re trying to talk about two different things and joining them together. On one hand being the heir apparent, and on the other having the president keel over.

    They’re intimately related because keeling over can happen in close proximity to an election. I never viewed Biden as heir apparent for Obama, maybe others did, but it didn’t matter because there were plenty of other choices and he’d still have a full primary cycle to be tested and discarded if he ate too much shit to be elected. I’m not even sure he would have beaten Clinton if he ran.

    If Biden keels over 1 year from now, we’re in deep shit, and his chances of doing so are MUCH higher than other recent presidents. Pretending that Biden has the same negligible risk of leaving office early as any other president is the whole problem with their approach.