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Strange. I mean it has been obvious all along that the Democratic party would support the incumbent. I would be really surprised to see another candidate come forward with the charisma and funding to be a serious contender. That candidate would most certainly not be this guy.

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Everything you mentioned hints towards AOC. Maybe not funding but she could come up with by asking for voter support.

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AOC would not be a serious contender at all. She’s way too extreme. Nobody can win without centrist support at this point, and AOC is not capable of winning that.

Not to mention the hurdle of the first woman president on top of that. Not saying I agree with that being a hurdle of course, but in reality it is.

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A career criminal (with chronically bad spray tan) and host of the apprentice managed to do it, and he thinks you need a license to buy bread. I think she could manage and for her to be the first woman president would actually be a meaningful harbinger of change.

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She’s extreme only because they have successfully pushed the overton window so far right. Anything that actually helps people has been branded as too extreme at this point.

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AOC would not be a serious contender at all. She’s way too extreme.

Extremism isn’t the problem. Having her name already turned into the GOP’s Pavlovian Minute of Hate is the problem.

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She’s not extreme. She’s a liberal woman who came from a blue collar background. That’s literally all it takes to not be a real contender right now.

Politically, she’s pretty moderate, like every other dem in congress.

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I have to say I agree. I like most of her proposals and I’d probably vote for her but she’d bring out the crazies for Drump. We really need a centrist like Biden until the crazies crawl back into their holes

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There are no centrists in the US because we have two right-wing parties.

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I also don’t think she’d through away the good will she has from other progressives that support Biden running again

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Really weird way to end your career, my man.

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“Oh no, how dare the party support the incumbent when there are no other prominent candidates”

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Democrats should find some alternatives and host debates. It’s almost, but not quite, too late.

Biden is so old and so boring that even this economy probably can’t save him. What other president what have a 40% approval rating with unemployment under 4%?

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If they actually went all in on doing that it would create so much more excitement for them the prez election would be clinched regardless of who ended up running.

They wouldn’t dare do it.

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Biden is … so boring

As a politician should be. I really wish we could get past the manufactured outrage, pandering, bombast, and blatant lying that politics is, and look for competence. Nice, boring competence. Someone who gets stuff done rather than yelling about doing stuff. I want Jimmy Carter back

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Can’t be much of a leader since no one has ever heard of him.

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Announces that he’s changing parties to the Republicans in 3… 2… 1…

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He’s voted with Biden’s policies 100% of the time. He’s more likely to run for President as a Democrat than attempt reelection as a Republican.

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Dean Phillips, a three-term representative from Minnesota’s 3rd district. He is a current member of both the Committee of Foreign Affairs and the Committee for Small Business.

He has been rumored to be running against Joe Biden in 2024. He is one of the most bipartisan members of Congress. He is also one of the wealthiest.

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He is one of the most bipartisan members of Congress.

So he is the Democratic version of Charlie Brown falling for Lucy holding a football?

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His Wikipedia page seems to tick all the right boxes, and being related to “Dear Abby” is not a bad thing, but I don’t know anything else about the guy.

For those complaining that he’s wealthy: yeah but it does seem to take that to get elected

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