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.

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    I mean, maybe? But Jon Osseff is untested. A brand-new US Senator whose background hasnā€™t been scrutinized to the degree Bidenā€™s has (and who largely remains clean). Quite a gamble. And before you mention Obama, Obama wasnā€™t hijacking an Incumbent presidency. Entirely different situation.

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      And before you mention Obama, Obama wasnā€™t hijacking an Incumbent presidency. Entirely different situation.

      He ran against Hillaryā€¦

      She had more party support than most incumbents.

      And suddenly weā€™ve switched to Joe Biden fighting to win a primary from him begrudgingly taking the nomination because no one else can.

      Giving voters a say in who they have to vote for in the general is never a bad thing. People feeling like they have no say in the primary are less likely to vote in the general

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        I donā€™t know what to say. Biden won; Hillary didnā€™t. And Ossef is no Obama. Weā€™re in a shitty situation with no good data-backed solutions.

        At the end of the day, nobody stopped anyone from running a primary against Biden.

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          At the end of the day, nobody stopped anyone from running a primary against Biden.

          Lol, yeah, the blacklisting stopped when the DNC stopped publicly announcing it.

          Biden himself said thereā€™s a bunch of other options, so if Iā€™m wrong so is Biden.

          Stop defending someone by disagreeing with them, listen to what they say instead of just rationalizing with whatever you assume

          And do t expect me to try and help you understand anything else.

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            Thereā€™s a hefty amount of cognitive dissonance if youā€™re saying Iā€™m disagreeing with Biden, and yet, Biden chose to not step down and run for a lack of anyone else throwing their hat in the ring. So how, exactly, am I disagreeing with Biden? These are not mutually-exclusive.

            lol ok. You continue speculating on blind hypotheticals and Iā€™ll just focus on reality of what is. Nobody of substance threw their hat in the ring; Biden chose to continue running despite also saying others could beat Trump. These are facts. Donā€™t expect me to help you understand anything else.