ā€œFlorida Democrats donā€™t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ā€˜Florida!!!ā€™ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,ā€Ā PoliticoĀ reports.

ā€œBut their excitement around the news is less about ā€˜why?ā€™ and more about leveraging Swiftā€™s celebrity status to fill the blank space for beleaguered voters tired of losing to Republicans.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Did someone stop him from putting his hat in the ring? Because otherwise, I think the problem is that he doesnā€™t want to run in Bidenā€™s place and I donā€™t know that voting for someone who isnā€™t running in the first place is an especially good strategy to beat Trump.

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      7 months ago

      The issue is no one wants to challenge Biden, not that no one would want to run in his place. Biden shouldnā€™t have run for reelection, but if he doesnā€™t step aside a challenge is likely to just blow up the party (at least unless Biden has some major senior movement that causes people to abandon him en masse). But thatā€™s an actuarial gamble, and if it doesnā€™t happen youā€™ve got a split party and a weakened candidate. Weā€™re seeing the in Republican party how well challenging the presumptive nominee goes when youā€™re simultaneously not trying to say anything remotely negative about him.

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        7 months ago

        That doesnā€™t really change the fact that he has expressed no interest in running. For whatever reason.

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          7 months ago

          Expressing an interest in running is challenging Biden, theyā€™re the same thing.

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        7 months ago

        Dens also spent a ton of money getting him into the senate majority. Theyā€™d have to risk doing that again if he left to be president (not that they couldnā€™t, but it could be pressure against running).

        The real problem is that most of the people smart enough to run, are too smart to want to be president.