• shastaxc@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    So add those together and it implies he doesn’t think Harris has the chops. But, to be fair, if that was actually the plan, they would’ve given her much more PR over the last 4 years.

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      3 months ago

      If it weren’t Trump running I think he would have stepped aside. He believed in 2019, and probably still believes now, that he has the best chance against Trump and that Trump is a singularly existential threat.

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      3 months ago

      it implies he doesn’t think Harris has the chops

      Or that he changed his mind. Or that his assurances to aides that he wouldn’t run for a second term were just to shut them up.

      Power is seductive, and I think it’s pretty likely that once he became president, he convinced himself that he was still the best one for the job, and that he uniquely deserved to continue to govern.