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Sarah Jessica Farber's avatar

My mom is between 70-80 and follows national politics very closely. This week she went from Biden's been doing the job to I don't think he has four more years in him and from I don't know about Kamala to Kamala's our best bet. I don't think she's a bell weather per se, but as an older person she's always been extremely skeptical of criticism about Biden's age. She is now framing this as more about his performance, and that's her tipping point. Her decision about Kamala is based on the ease of the campaign transition -- practicality.

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There is no unicorn candidate who will get everyone to magically unite behind them, get a national campaign spun up from nothing and somehow get all that money replaced in three months. Instead we're going to have chaos at the convention, the Republicans will fight like hell to keep Joe's name on ballets if we do switch, resulting in increased rationalizations for rejecting ballots; and meanwhile Trump will coast to victory because we're all too busy shooting ourselves in the foot.

If you didn't like the candidate we had, you should have been pushing for a new one since **before** the primaries. Now, like it or not, you're stuck with this one. He's done a helluva job for the last four years and I don't see any reason to suspect he won't continue to do an excellent job for the next four. And should his health/mental acuity take a sudden nosedive over those next four years, well, that's what the VP is there for.

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