Honestly, I’m not keen on it anymore. Once he leaves office without the support of people like McConell, he will hopefully not have a successful 2024 run. What I would really like to see is a strong candidate emerge from the Biden team who can go the 2024 election and emerge victorious. I’m not so sure Harris is going to be able to garner such support. Even people who grudgingly voted for Biden hate her. This country isn’t ready for a woman of color to be president. The republicans are going to regroup and find the racist that will get the votes out. I hope Biden is able to push the dems across the finish line in 2024 even if he doesn’t run. Much of it depends on how he deals with his time in office between now and 2023.
When Biden chose Harris as his VP, I wondered if he would have chosen her if her last name was Indian sounding and a longish one. Such as Chaturvedi, Chattopadhyay, Deshpande, Nagarajan, Pamireddy, Ranganathan, Ungirmare, Bellamkonda...
Well, he was in a pickle when he went and promised to have a Black Woman as his VP candidate before any forethought. I really thought he would go with Stacy Abrams but maybe it didn't work out. He had to pick her(Harris), who else is there. Anyway, they got through the finish line and that's what matters.
Would she even be here in the first place. She went to a HBU and some of her close friends didn't even know her mom was Indian. Only now, she speaks of her Indian heritage a little. She identified as a Black Woman and without the right last name, that would be very different. Random thought too, not anything researched and read etc.
Another thing I don't get about the American system is the power state Governors have with with veto of legislative measures and pardons against state crimes. And, the power to appoint replacement for elected positions that go vacant such as the senate seat that Kamala Harris vacated. The replacement has to later win in an election, but still ... ==== Not even getting into the similar powers that the POTUS has. There must be some reasoning behind both sets of powers.
From my rudimentary understanding, it was to have limited governance in the first place. Americans post 1776 were wary of the one mighty powerful king. Secondly, I read somewhere that the State Gov is closer to the people and is better suited to make the decisions for the state. Maybe in a time when communication was not like today, state govs had to be self reliant to run the country smoothly. You know how prickly people are about changing archaic laws, guns for example. I sure am happy that a presidential pardon doesn't cover state crimes. SDNY, all eyes are on you and Letitia James.
Oh, the Republicans are submitting articles to impeach Biden on Jan 21st. This show is just getting on the road! What clowns!
It's during a global pandemic. This is the US Capitol. These men couldn't have even some comfortable sleeping bags and some eye covers? Amidst all this, we have House Reps complaining about having to wait and walk through a metal detector before getting into the Capitol. Some even dodging the metal detectors and walking around them. So much so that Capitol police had to put barriers around metal detectors so everyone would walk through them. One of the women ripped the Capitol police apart for doing their jobs and daring to ask to check her bag.