• BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Haha, that brief two or three week period after Harris replaced Biden and the media pivoted HARD into hopeful optimism for our girlboss heroine. They suddenly backtracked from their months long defense of Biden’s cognitive decline and then admitted he was too mentally frail to survive another presidency but here comes a vibrant new replacement to crush Orange Man! And Dems fell for it hard, with poll numbers showing a resurgence of hope for victory. And then the assassination attempt on Trump derailed everything. I think they still would have lost, but there wouldn’t be as dramatic of a shift in sentiment without it.

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          3 days ago

          Yep, the debate should have been enough of a wake up call but establishment dems were in full denial and damage control mode. But after the post assassination attempt poll bump for Trump, they finally made the swap.

          And yeah, a lot has happened since then so it can hard keep everything straight.