Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean is from the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. She hit the campaign trail with President Biden over the weekend and as other House Democrats are asking him to drop out of the race. Rep. Dean joined Geoff Bennett to discuss her support.
He beat Trump
Yeah, in 2020, riding the “Anyone but Trump” wave. Woulda got smoked in 2016.
He probably would’ve done better than Hillary. He was pretty well liked in 2016. Between the memes and the momentum from the Obama administration, I think he may have won.
Anyone living in a swing state just needs to go and vote for Biden. I know a lot of people don’t want to, and, believe me, I get it, but you gotta just do it. It’s like a chore you need to do that you really don’t want to do, that you resent having to do, even, but that nonetheless has to be done. Just do it then take a nice, long hot shower after.
That being said, holy shit something has to be done. Clearly, just focusing on the presidential election every four years ain’t gonna cut it. We have got to get more involved in the political process. We have got to vote in every local, state, and congressional election. We have to encourage better people to run for office. We have to do something. I don’t know exactly what needs to be done to improve our democracy, but we gotta figure it out. We can’t have another election cycle like the last several.
Indeed, folks need to get involved at the local level and primaries.
For those that complain about the first past the post voting, Alaska managed to pass ranked choice voting:
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-ranked-choice-voting-5ae6c163af2f8a70a8f90928267c4086
If you hate FPTP and the choices it gives you, don’t just sit out the election, that’s an inherent vote for the person you like the least. You can try to back a similar ranked choice measure in your state:
Yuuuup. If you have never called your senator or met with your representative, if you’ve never been to a city council meeting, then you are a part of the problem. This site is full of smart, hardworking, passionate people. We should be the ones in local offices.
Good luck. You keep Biden and Trump is a shoo-in. Looots of people not voting if there’s no good candidates.
Support RCV in your city!
Let’s be clear, this is not a repeat of 2024.
Even if it was, Biden won by unprecedentedly narrow margins in key states.
In the intervening 3.5 years, Trump has shorn up gaps in his base, motivating them to turn up to vote; his scotus nominations have ran roughshod over democracy.
Meanwhile it took Biden’s administration 2.5 years to get nuclear secrets or whatever back from the insurrectionist traitor who still walks free, and for some inconceivable notion, is running against him for president; has pissed away votes trying to chase centrists, pissed away vote supporting genocide, and pissed away votes by being entirely out of touch on “the economy”- which we all know really means “rich people’s yacht money.”
I don’t care about him being old- I care about him being competent.
Is he a fuckton more competent than Trump? Absolutely. It’s the difference between a hammer and a rock, but we’re trying to rebuild and should probably get an air nailer. even so, it’s asininely stupid to force Biden out if he doesn’t want to go.
If his ego won’t let him bow out for the sake of Americans, he’s absolutely going to ruin any chance anyone else has, too.
And pretty soon he’s going to be known as the “Guy who lost to Trump.” His legacy will be up there with Neville Chamberlain.
