Almost 40,000 people registered to vote in the 48 hours after President Biden announced he was suspending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Harris, Vote.org said.
Vote.org said 38,500 new voters registered, representing the largest number of registrations in a 48-hour period this election cycle.
Of the new voter registrations, 83 percent were from people aged 18-34, according to the voting registration nonprofit group.
I didn’t expect the party to so quickly coalesce around Harris honestly. I thought if Biden dropped out, it would be chaos and the Republicans would sail to victory.
It almost seems possible the democratic leadership might have potentially possibly maybe learned something perhaps and came up with a strategy for how to deal with trump that doesn’t hinge on trying to do the same things that worked in 2020 (and then failed miserably in 2022). Good for them! Maybe next they’ll learn they don’t have to court moderate republican voters to switch sides, and instead focus on the vast swath of Americans who feel so disenchanted with American Politics that they don’t vote, or even really pay attention to politics, because the Democrats are, globally, conservative, and the Republicans are, globally, insane
I agree with pretty much everything you say here except one thing:
2022 was an unmitigated success for Democrats. Not only did we keep the senate but we kept the Republican majority in the House razor thin. That was in defiance of polling and historical precedent.
Do you remember how the right went from talking about a “red wave” to bitter complaining and damage control in the span of about 12 hours? How we damn near ousted Boebert? How Michigan became a blue trifecta for the first time since 1984?
2022 was far from a miserable failure. It was far, far better than we had any reasonable hope for.
Sorry I was living in a state where the DNC was experimenting with what the grand plan would be for 2024 and the result was Trump-lite in a stupid little fleece vest became governor and in the years since Virginia has become a much less safe place to be a person of color, queer, or a woman.
Fair. I’ll retract the “unmitigated” part.
Also re-reading my apology for getting lost in the sauce of my own bias of how I viewed 2022 I realize i might come across as being snarky when legitimately I forgot how that year went for everyone else because I was so frustrated watching both sides in VA say one of the candidates was exactly like Trump. I wasn’t being sarcastic in my prior comment. Legitimately. I goofed up and I’m sorry
No worries, friend. I always try to believe the best in people until they prove otherwise, so I never took your comment badly. And I’ve certainly been on the other end of losing my cool before, too. Your frustration is very understandable and I can relate.
Besides, I lived in VA for about 5 years myself. We’re practically former neighbors.
Welcome to “Leftism” where the feelings are made up and the facts don’t matter!
Disclaimer: also applies to right-wingers
Or, you know, different regions had different realities on the ground post 2022 election.
Just because the party did well nationally, doesn’t mean they didn’t suffer in certain places.
I see your comment about Virginia. That sucked and we should have done better. I’m sorry, I assumed you were just another one of those edgy teenagers who always has to say “Democrats bad”.
I thought the plan might be to make a bit of a spectacle of an open primary, depriving the convicted felon of the attention he so craves.