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The Way Forward

anamnua

(1,386 posts) Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:45 PM Jan 26

I know this is raking over old ground [View all]

Last edited Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:16 PM - Edit history (1)

but Joe should have gone in 2023. The ensuing primary would, in all probability, have delivered a Shapiro/Whitmer ticket — delivering Pennsylvania and Michigan. One more swing state and we would have been home and dry.

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I know this is raking over old ground [View all] anamnua Jan 26 OP

Why beat this dead horse in a forum about the way forward? Ocelot II Jan 26 #1

Nowadays, there is no telling what would have happened. I do think his stepping aside and a primary Silent Type Jan 26 #2

how is this a "way forward" ? Skittles Jan 26 #3

Whitmer maybe, not Shapiro as the Gazan crisis is wha had many voting against... brush Jan 27 #4

Truth and Reconciliation suegeo Jan 27 #5

When have the Democrats not handed it to the person they deemed was deserving? Harris was always going to be FSogol Jan 28 #6

"When have the Democrats not handed it to the person they deemed was deserving?" Polybius Jan 28 #7

when they get the jitters and shortcut the democratic process cadoman Jan 29 #8