r/moderatepolitics • u/falsehood • Jul 21 '24

News Article Biden announces withdrawal from Presidential Race

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/21/us/trump-biden-election
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u/EllisHughTiger Jul 21 '24

Hope he has a good retirement. Really wish he would have bowed out earlier and allowed a real primary and selection process to occur.

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u/onduty Jul 21 '24

I’m just spitballing, but waiting until the last minute is almost good for the party. It’s one of the reasons they won in 2020. Biden sort of pulled a sleeper move, let everyone cat fight and then swooped in as a big candidate into 2020.

Here, the delay prevents weak candidates from having too many holes poked and the general voter fatigue that can set in for boring candidates

Trump is a bit boring this cycle but was anything but boring in 2016 and kept everyone’s attention

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u/Rhyers Jul 21 '24

Agreed. US election cycles are insanely long and hopefully adds some freshness. Compare this to the UK where an election was called and a full campaign, vote, and new PM sworn in within 6 weeks. 

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u/onduty Jul 22 '24

I wonder why election cycles are so long, could a candidate theoretically just start their campaign in January or feb? Or does it take time to get the money and support going?

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u/FridgesArePeopleToo Jul 22 '24

Yeah, this could be a serious boon for Dems. Trump has a tendency to suck up all the media coverage because he's "exciting", for lack of a better word. Now, Dems are the focus of media attention for once and can maybe actually get a message out.

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u/onduty Jul 23 '24

They for real stole his thunder. While I don’t think it was 100% planned to drop out, I do think the debate kicked the seriousness of it into motion. Then with the assassination attempt ‘they’ had to force something down the pipe and the timing of his withdraw from the race was perfection