Elijah Manley was still a teenager when his frustration with President Trump pushed him to get involved in politics. Today, he’s finally old enough to run for Congress. Upset with how his own Democratic Party is responding to Trump, he’s decided to do just that.

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    12 hours ago

    Good! That party needs a major shake up. Oh. And some damn balls(metaphorically speaking)

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        9 hours ago

        Harris didn’t lose because she was a woman; she lost because she was a bad candidate. It’s that simple.

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          17 minutes ago

          As a non American, I keep seeing this excuse and I’m always gobsmacked.

          Bad candidate compared to… Trump?

          You lot sure know how to pick them (or not, as it were).

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            As another non-American, comparing her to Trump is very reductive, because fundamentally she and Trump were trying to appeal to completely different sets of people. Yeah yeah lesser evil and all that, but that doesn’t work in the real world.

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          8 hours ago

          Is no criticism of Democrats allowed without being called some form of bigot? I voted blue but I’m not going to pretend that the candidate I voted for represented basically any of my problems. I’m not in the group of people that her campaign claimed to serve.

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            6 hours ago

            You’re being called a chauvinist because of your statement that a woman can’t win.

            It’s because you said something misogynistic/chauvinistic.

            Criticism is allowed and welcomed.

            What you did wasn’t that.

            Hope this clears things up!

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        9 hours ago

        The DNC sucks and all, but they aren’t a cult and don’t run people who lost again.

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                8 hours ago

                It is elected, but as a package deal. If they’re popular it’s not a bad idea to choose them as a nominee, but…yeah, Harris was not.

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                  8 hours ago

                  Its not elected, no one votes for VP. In the olden days, sure, but if the VP is elected than so is any family members of the president, making the trump kids political appointments the explicit will of the people, and no one wants that to be true.

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                    8 hours ago

                    The ballot has the President and Vice President on it. You do indeed vote for VP, but as I said, as a package deal. None of Trump’s kids were on the ballot.