In her column in the Washington Post today, Jennifer Rubin explains why Kamala Harris is the best person to replace Biden. She is smart, experienced, tough, articulate, and ready. She is 59, and Trump—not Biden—would be the elderly person in the race. Rubin believes that if Harris passed over, the Democratic Party would be a shambles. Harris, she believes would energize the youth vote. Furthermore, she would be able to call out Trump’s lies without fumbling. The media is prepped to call out Biden’s gaffes, pauses, mistakes, stumbles; Harris speaks clearly and decisively. Furthermore, she is well-versed in the harms of the Dobbs decision and could appeal to Republican women.
Rubin writes:
As of this writing, President Biden hasn’t said he would step away from the 2024 campaign. Democrats nevertheless seem poised to move on. In multiple appearances, including TV interviews and meetings with Democratic lawmakers, Biden has not convinced them he is capable of winning the race, in large part because the race has become about him — his age, his health, his capacity. Each appearance becomes a “Perils of Pauline” moment in which supporters gird themselves for a gaffe or stumble. A race that was supposed to be about Donald Trump is now about Biden’s infirmities.
I know the feeling. I have watched Biden’s appearances with trepidation. I admire him and respect him and marvel at his accomplishments. But I worry that the press is now primed to catch any mistake he makes and blow it up, while ignoring Trump’s obsession with “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” and his nutty insistence that he won the 2020 election.
She cancels Trump’s only issue: Biden’s frailty. And she can shift the focus to his extremist plans.
Rubin says:
Without Biden attracting questions about his physical and mental fitness, perhaps the media might finally focus on Trump’s unhinged rants, compulsive lying and utter lack of policy knowledge.
Kamala Harris is the best candidate to oppose the Insurrectionist-in-Chief.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The way the media operates ,you’d almost think their money-grubbing billionaires want Trump to win so their taxes can be reduced again.
Washington Post, Sinclair Broadcasting, Murdoch, ad nauseum.
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The Democratic Party (not Democrat Party as the GOP and Trump like to say) IS NOW in shambles. It’s busy self destructing as we speak, it’s sad, sad, sad. The Democrats should not be speaking publicly that Biden should step down, let the GOP do that. Biden won the primaries handily and, thus far, he is determined to stay in the race. So, back him up until otherwise advised. But no, many Democrats have decided to stab Joe in the back multiple times. Dean Phillips and Joe Manchin, amongst others, should just shut up and go away. The D party is on a suicide mission, who is going to vote for such a botched up mess. I will vote for Biden or whomever the candidate is because Trump/Vance are a menace. Trump recently gave veiled praise to the dictators of Russia and China, what a guy. He’s ready to throw Ukraine under the bus, give tax breaks to the rich and destroy Social Security and Medicare.
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Yeah, nothing gets the voters flocking to the polls like a long, slow death march.
I have previously argued that dropping Biden would guarantee a loss. But at this point, there’s simply not a path to victory for him. His physical and mental decline grows more pronounced by the day. His public appearances confirm this.
This isn’t Ronald Reagan running for his first term and snapping off humorous lines and comebacks and besting the media. This is the Reagan that came later, whose appearances became rationed in small doses lest the decline become obvious.
This is the bet we placed in 2020, but failed to get a commitment (for sound reasons – he would never have agreed) that he would only serve one term. Okay, we are going to lose that bet now, unless we see reality.
Trump will be even more of a disaster than he was before. We are, inter alia, staring at the destruction of Ukraine, the crash of our economy, and the betrayal of our NATO allies. And that might be the GOOD news. He will be Putin’s puppet, bent on a mad agenda of willful ignorance and retribution. A second term will be an orgy of ignorance and revenge. Europe will be lost, and Fortress America an impotent failure.
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We are, inter alia, staring at the destruction of Ukraine, the crash of our economy, and the betrayal of our NATO allies. And that might be the GOOD news. He will be Putin’s puppet, bent on a mad agenda of willful ignorance and retribution. A second term will be an orgy of ignorance and revenge. Europe will be lost, and Fortress America an impotent failure.
Well said, JSR! So much at stake!!!
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but Pelosi wants an open election??? She’s the one pushing this…and she’s running again at 83?
the dems don’t have a plan. Listen to aoc.
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That is a LONG AOC video for an honest chat. But I recommend at least going to its YouTube page and read the brief summary below it.
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Even as vice president for a 2nd Biden term, she’s the best candidate for president if anything happened to Biden.
I read, correct me if what I read was wrong, that the MAGA Party won’t let Vance debate Harris.
Is MAGA afraid of Harris?
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She would, like a Greek Fury, tear puffy boy apart.
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Vance will destroy the cackling hyena
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Harry, you think everyone will be fooled by the Hillbilly Hypocrite turned hedge fund manager?
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Women’s voices are pitched somewhat higher than are men’s, generally, so the dyed-in-the-wool misogynist, sexist pigs always go for descriptives like “cackling” and “shrieking.” Truth is, Harris is a powerful orator.
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If Kamala was a Republican, she wouldn’t be so “great”, right? I’m sure there’s plenty of right wing women that you mock, bash, criticize, etc. does that make you a “misogynist”, “sexist pig” or a “racist”? You’re pretty good bob at dishing out insults at opposing candidates, but can’t take it when it happens to whom you support.
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And those same sexist pigs describe women they don’t like as canine. Typical.
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Sure, she would be fine, I guess. But changing horses this far into the stream would be a disaster. Harris can probably win on her own. But not now.
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Biden just withdrew. Time is short, let’s go.
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His statement does not address the question of a successor.
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Now he’s endorsed Harris.
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My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.
–Joe Biden
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Harris is a DEI choice, an utter dunce barely smarter than Trump. Hillary Clinton was a highly qualified candidate. Trump wins. Does Diane Ravitch still believe that Biden has the cognitive health to serve another four year term?
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Hmm. Let’s see. While in college she CHAIRED THE DEBATE TEAM and SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE ECONOMICS SOCIETY. She passed the bar immediately after finishing law school. She had a meteoric career because she was so good at every job she took.
What a loser.
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But hey, don’t let the facts affect your opinions. Keep them pure out-of-your-tush bs!
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Well….on my Apple Newsfeed it has been announced that Biden is dropping out.
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It is shameful that Biden didn’t drop out long ago. But here we are. Kamala for president!
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Cue script shift from Ageism to Racism and Misogyny…
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Callisto, absolutely agree!
Ageism will be replaced by racism and misogyny.
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Kamala Harris is tough as nails and smart as a whip and compassionate like her mentor Joe Biden. Elizabeth Warren pointed out, today, that as a former prosecutor, she is used to going up against lying criminal lowlifes like Trump. I don’t know how many folks here have heard her on the stump lately. She is a dynamite speaker. In command of the facts and of the oratory. She’s going to make a great president.
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And she will fight for things that matter like federal protection of women’s right to choose. And she will be outstanding on the world stage–strong, resolute, fiercely protective of our allies, including Ukraine.
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If cackles is as tough as nails bob, why did she drop out in the 2020 primaries with a lousy 2-3% of the vote ????😝
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Harry,
Kamala didn’t have the cash to keep going. She had a low % because she was unknown.
Now people know her and they love her. She’s more experienced than she was in 2000. She’s poised and well-informed. Trump is terrified of Kamala. He is an old man. He frowns and scowls. She is joyous. The Democratic base loves her. Have you ever seen Trump smile or laugh. I’ll take her joy and laughter any day compared to his sour puss and anger.
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Diane she’s female, a poc, and a leftist progressive, that’s why she’s “loved”? This was really the plan all along. Kick old Joe to the curb and slide her right on in, DEI style. How would you feel if she was a conservative Republican? You would hate her guts. But as long as they “check those boxes”, everything is a okay 👌🏻. Trump’s afraid of her? That’s as delusional as it gets.😝
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Harry,
Trump is terrified of Kamala. Now he’s gone into the gutter by claiming that she isn’t really black. She has a mother who is Indian, and a father born in Jamaica. Trump can’t resist racially divisive attacks, like his claim that Obama was not really born in the US, and his involvement in trying to convict the Central Park 5, which turned out to be a lie.
Kamala smiles. Kamala laughs. Donald never does either.
Kamala is an experienced prosecutor. Trump is a convicted felon with a foul mouth.
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Trump was convicted by a radical liberal stacked kangaroo court. If he was a Dem, there’d be no indictments, no convictions, nothing. Oh, by the way, DEI = didn’t earn it. More companies are getting rid of it. Hiring and promotions should be towards merit, not checking a box.
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Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers, ordinary people whose social media accounts. Trump’s lawyers approved every member of the jury. He had aex with a porn star while his wife was caring for their baby. He had a deal with the publisher of The National Enquirer to buy and bury any negative stories about him. He made a deal to pay Stormy Daniel’s $130,000 to say nothing about their sexual encounter. He tried to disguise the payments as business expenses. The jury concluded he had falsified his business records.
This is the same man who told a tv show that if you want to have sex with a woman, just “grab her by the p—-y”
Harry, is this your hero?
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switch the party’s around, and you would be supporting Trump
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It’s true that I can’t vote for a party that has branded itself as racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic. As it happens, Trump represents those bigotries.
The Democratic Party prides itself on being multiracial, inclusive and does not traffick in bigotry.
Sorry, Harry, but Trump could never run on the Democratic line because he is a bigot, in addition to being leader of the insurrection.
Did you approve of Trump summoning his followers to DC on January 6 and encouraging them to storm the U.S. Capitol? Do you think that the insurrectionists who assaulted police officers at the Capitol should be pardoned? Do you think they are patriots?
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Diane. What I’m saying is, if Trump was a Dem, all of his “dirty deeds” would have been swept under the carpet by the msm. He got the same treatment that Alexis Navalny got in Russia. Putin wanted to get rid of him because he was a threat to Putin’s power. Stalin, Hitler and many other evil dictators always “eliminate” competition. Trump was railroaded by a leftist kangaroo court and by a DNC weaponized DOJ. Communist, Nazis, Marxist tactics utilized to the core. Stop watching cnn, msdnc, the View and other leftist race baiting marxist trash. Use google like I do. It’s a great start to do some actual research.
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Harry, please don’t compare Traitor Trump to the great Navalny. Trump tried to overthrow our government because he’s a whiny sore loser. Putin is a dictator. We have a democratic government. Do you really think that the U.S. is just like Russia? If Trump were the Democratic candidate, I would switch parties.
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Diane. Trump isn’t a dictator. He’s a conservative who wants to maintain traditional American values. He won’t bend down to radical activists. It’s the progressives that are trying to overthrow our way of life with their anti white, anti semite, anti Christian, open borders, soft on crime policies. If you want to hate his arrogant personality, have at it. I’m not fond of him as a person either, but I support his policies of America first. 🇺🇸
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Harry,
You are a reasonable man, so please understand where I’m coming from. I was born in Texas but have lived in NYC since 1960. Over the decades, I became aware of Trump’s personal and political activities. His name was frequently in the gossip columns because of his flamboyant personal life. Sometimes he planted the items himself by calling reporters and feeding them tidbits about which nightclub he was seen in, with which model; he claimed to be a press agent named “John Miller” and tried to disguise his voice. But the reporters figured out it was Trump. He wanted to be seen as a fabulously wealthy, high-flying playboy.
He was never a conservative and is not one now. He supported many Democratic candidates, including the Clintons. He endorsed abortion.
Trump is transactional. He has no values. He does whatever is in his self-interest at the moment.
He made his debut in politics when he became an outspoken critic of “the Central Park Five.” These young black and Latino men were accused and convicted of a brutal rape of a jogger in Central Park. Trump paid for full-page ads in the city’s four largest newspapers calling for a revival of the death penalty for them.
In 2002, a murderer confessed to the rape, and his confession was confirmed by DNA evidence. The five young men, after spending years in prison, were fully exonerated. They won $41 million from the city for their wrongful treatment.
Over the years, Trump refused to apologize or admit he was wrong.
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Trump is a man who has no principles. He lies without remorse. He has no “traditional family values.” He had sex with a porn star and a Playgirl while his third wife was recuperating from childbirth. That behavior is not “family values.” He reaches out to Christians for his political gain, but he himself is completely irreligious. He doesn’t attend church. Unlike President Jimmy Carter, he has never led a religious life or exemplified religious values. His life has been motivated by greed and sex. He will not and cannot revive “traditional family values” because he doesn’t believe in them or live them.
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This is idiotic. Truly.
Trump’s ignorance and incompetence is mind-boggling.
You think Democrats are hypnotized?
Look in the mirror.
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Your problem is that Trump wants to return to a past that existed as a white oligarchy. But:
He knows nothing of history.
He knows nothing of technology.
He has no understanding of other cultures, with whom we must coexist on this planet.
He has no interest in you. He couldn’t care less if you lived or died, he only cares what you have in your wallet and who you vote for.
He is a fascist, which is why he loves Putin who kills his citizens with abandon, while people interested in freedom for their countries, like Zelensky, possess actual bravery and a love of democracy.
In 2016, the press ignored the most important sources for understanding: The people of New York City. They knew him as full of bullshit and bluster and a stupid businessman. Any New York City garbage collector or cab driver understood Trump far better than you and the rest of the red state fools.
True patriots don’t worship fascists like Putin and Orban. True patriots try to make their countries better places for their citizens.
True patriots aren’t afraid of their people learning about the wider world.
True patriots trust the citizenry to read what they like, watch what they like, and listen to what and whom they like. Trump doesn’t even read.
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Thank you.
Any New York City person could have told you in 2016 that Trump was a narcissistic playboy, interested in no one but himself. He loves publicity and notoriety.
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Diane.
I didn’t compare Trump to Navalny personality wise. I was referring to how they were railroaded by the powers to be that used the sleazy media to do it. Smear tactics to eliminate the competition.
Trump had sex with a porn star?? Really? How do you know? Or,,,, did you know Harris had an extramarital affair with former SF mayor & CA state assembly speaker Willie Brown who boosted her career significantly. Then there’s the conniving Clinton’s. Wild Bill chasing around an intern behind closed doors and being sued by Paul jones for sexual harassment. I’m not even going to get into Hillary. I can write a whole book on her sleazyness. All of it, ignored by the slimy MSM.
Multiple marriages are a way of life in this generation. Digging into someone’s past to smear them. Why didn’t anyone point out the Trump/Daniels affair back 2006 when it took place. Not until 10 years later, how convenient. Stop watching cnn, msdnc, the view, etc.
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Harris won two elections in California. No one rigged the elections. You are jealous because she is vibrant, smart, smiles, and is scaring Trump.
Trump is a grumpy old man who doesn’t give a hoot about you unless you are a billionaire.
What’s Bill Clinton got to do with Kamala? He’s not on the ticket.
Trump, as Biden said, has the morals of an alley cat.
I don’t care about his sex life. I care that he assembled a mob to try to overturn the government on Jan 6, 2021, then lied about his LOSS ever since. He lost more than 60 federal and state court cases appealing his LOSS. He lost before judges he appointed. He lost twice at the Supreme Court.
He calls the violent insurrectionists “patriots.” What an insult to real patriots.
I thought you were a reasonable man. I was wrong.
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He also has no use for a woman who achieves. Else he would not spout such ignorance.
If he wanted to understand Clinton, he would read Gene Lyons and Joe Conason.
He will never read either.
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First, as to Bill Clinton. I was always a fan, while nonetheless recognizing his flaws when it came to women. But the thing with Clinton is that he was an excellent governor of Arkansas (a very beautiful state, actually).
As to Trump, he is an ignorant man, the most ignorant president we have ever had, and venal to the point of outright fraud. Whenever Trump has been confronted with a problem, he has always sought the corrupt solution. He is sui generis, a psychopath who doubles as an infant. He has no understanding of the Constitution, and most definitely no use for it.
I would agree that some in power tried to thwart him, but they did so out of terror and patriotism. I am not a fan of John Kelly, but I will be forever grateful he was there, with others, to frustrate Trump’s more bizarre attempts of exerting power.
Donald Trump does not, and never has, loved this country except as a facilitator of his mendacity and greed. He is in love with dictators and has no feeling for them beyond envy. He desires their ability to rule by fiat. He loathes most of his fellow citizens, especially those who call him out for the crap he pulls. He is acquisitive while being stupid, a dangerous combination.
He is racist. He is mendacious. He is a gaping maw of want and resentment. He loathes anyone who actually knows anything because he knows nothing. But he is a for attention for adoration. He shows us this every time he opens his mouth. He has the emotional maturity of a three-year-old.
He is dangerous.
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