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  I will not vote for Biden if he runs again. He’s already senile and so is trump. Can we get some fresh blood
context: Biden will be 82 during the campaign.  I get Democrats are scared about looking fractured, but I find it hard to believe such an old guy is the best the Democrats have to offer. 
  I lived in Springfield. IL and met Obama once in the early years of his campaign,  when few people knew him or showed up to his pressers.  I remember his enthusiasm and energy, coming off as a genuinely nice person.  I would like to see more of this,  young people with ideas and vision rather than old people who can be hopelessly out of touch with modern issues.
  Edit:  typo >
  
  If I look at US politics today it’s not necessarily the old people who are out of touch, though. >
  
  The absolute power of the DNC makes me so angry. They get to set up the board and then invite us to sit down after all the piece’s are chosen. screams into void >
  
  It's wild to think that in the next 10-15 years the majority of our current members of congress will be dead. These old fucks really have a difficult time letting go of power. >
  
  I would like a younger president, but I don’t need one to excite me to vote. If the president who’s creating record job growth and cooling inflation and has had so many legislative successes runs for another term, of course I’ll fucking vote for him. >
  
  Someone call Mary Kay, she may have the answers we're looking for. Get this man preserved in a vat of anti-aging cream, STAT! >
  
  Honestly though what other option is there? Push another candidate and the party looks fractured? Tough spot but gotta stay the course. >
  
  Stay the course. Democrats' sacred mantra at this point. >
  
  Holding firmly on the wheel, while saying, "Icebergs don't come this far south this time of year, nothing to worry about." >
  
  People act like they are doing Biden a favor by voting for him but in reality you need him far more than he needs you.
  If republicans ban abortion, slash taxes on the rich or take away lgbt rights none of those things hurt Biden, he is a rich white man. He and his family will continue living a luxury life, he does not need to be president . >
  
  Democrats have a real succession problem. Biden may beat Trump but I think would likely lose to a younger, more popular candidate. Kamala Harris was a bad VP choice from a deep blue state. There are a lot of high up Democratic Party or government admin jobs Kamala would have been good for and I’ll never understand why Biden invited her to be VP, it doesn’t make sense on so many levels. >
  
  He needed a woman, preferably a woman of color. One of the first places most nominees look for VP candidates is in their former primary opponents. Harris ticked the right boxes. >
  
  I get that but he could have looked for a woman of color from Georgia or Florida or a state that would be politically valuable. Or someone that was a good politician and not just a party functionary who successfully navigated a heavily democratic political system with little Republican opposition. >
  
  TL;DR: 
  Dems realize they've screwed themselves by reducing their bench of presidential candidates and we're stuck with one guy who will be readily destroyed if Ron "Human Trafficking Torture Porn Addict" DeSantis gets enough momentum over Donald "Only Criminals Plead the 5th" Trump in the GOP primaries. >
  
  Desantis has the charisma of a wet fart and there's absolutely nothing appealing about him beyond the braindead maga base. >
  
  The dude trounced his opponents in 2022, taking just under 60% of overall votes. He may not have charisma for a lot of us, but he certainly speaks to a particular subset of people. >
  
  In a red state that has gotten drastically redder since 2018 and has only had republican governors since 1999. >
  
  And in my sapphire blue state, I have relatives who are looking forward to voting for the guy.
  I'm just saying underestimate him at your own peril. >
  
  And did those relatives vote for Trump before? DeSantis isn’t flipping any votes that weren’t already going red. >
  
  The Democrats really don't have a response to MAGA other than trying to wait it out and hope it dies naturally (spoiler: it won't). The DOJ is powerless to hold Trump and his ilk accountable to the law and is likewise hoping the dude will just keel over. Meanwhile we have former Speaker Insider Trading declaring she would unreservedly support Senator Dementia were she to run again. There's no leadership. There are no solutions. They're all just letting the GOP make the moves and positioning themselves as the only other option. No wonder the voters are demoralized.