• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It wasn’t pro Palestine protestors that got Biden to step down.

    Yes, it was. There were multiple swing states that he simply couldn’t win due to the Uncommitted vote and the party knew it. Don’t gaslight.

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      3 months ago

      100% pressure from the debate. I didn’t hear a peep from the Palestine vocalists for weeks leading up to his announcement, only his debate performance.

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        3 months ago

        So the fact that Uncommitted votes across multiple swing states added up to more than the margins he won by in those states in 2020 had no influence.

        I think you know that’s not true. His debate performance was the final straw but wouldn’t have been enough on its own. The dems were calculating (wrongly, I think) that they could ignore the anti-genocide demographic as long as they made up for it with right-wing independents. The debate happened and the combination of losing both groups of voters made it impossible to ignore reality, even for the neoliberal establishment.

        Biden being ousted was a referendum by voters on his support for the genocide as much as it was about age.

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          3 months ago

          I disagree, but you make valid points. I just don’t think that it truly played any part in the decision.