If you could be bothered to read back through my posts I was suggesting this possibility quite a few weeks ago. I think the DMC see getting rid of Trump as the overwhelming priority and have called what amounts to a national emergency to achieve it.

They knew that if Sanders stood the floating voters would not be so likely to vote for him so managed to kick him off. They also know Biden won't do well in one to one TV debates but for the time being he can hold the line. Then he will get sick or have some other reason to be forced to withdraw.

Who is chosen as VP now becomes vital as they would be the obvious replacement.

I am pretty sure it won't be Hillary. Too much baggage! Don't think it will be Michelle Obama either. Her lack of public office experience would be exploited.

I do though think it will be a woman. Amy Klobuchar looks like the most likely to me, and is now undergoing vetting. However, don't write off Kamala Harris. She is young, smart and has another obvious appeal.

You obviously dont bother to understand matov and his political knowledge from what I read anyhow. I reckon he has read and re read all of your posts but you actually post that you cant be bothered with it sometimes. Pot kettle black.

Increasingly convinced that come November, Biden will not be the one standing against Trump. His complete unsuitability for an election campaign is becoming more apparent by the day.

The Democrats clearly have a candidate lined up that they cannot get through the normal primary process. Biden will be diagnosed with an illness and they will parachute this person in.

I emigrated to the US almost forty years ago now and have endured the political system here ever since. Only since I took citizenship in 2015, though, have I been obliged to actually participate in it - welcome to the election process, 2016. Being generally more right than center, I chose to "waste" my vote and checked the box for Gary Johnson. I couldn't stomach Trump and even more so, Clinton. I did my civic duty. Not voting would've had the same outcome.

You, sir, have just written what I consider to be a very accurate summary of the state of the US political landscape. Well done. Those like me -teetering in the middle- are pitifully at a loss. Can't stomach Cheeto and can't get behind Sleepy Joe. I learned my lesson in 2016 and will have no choice but to suck it up this time and vote for whomever the Democrats put on the ticket. And, if it becomes four more of Cheeto - will just have to hope for a miracle that the Democrats can take back the Senate (and keep the house.) Some say that would be preferable to winning in November. "Watch him squirm" is a term many use... it could be entertaining, at least. (I'd rather have him out; I worry about that button he has access to - and, I believe he is unhinged enough to use it.)

So living somewhere automatically makes you right about the political landscape.

Great logic.

Trump is a symptom of the mistrust that many voters have in the establishment. Trump was the outsider who had never been in office. White Americas have figured out that the 'progressives' are the puppets of the elites and those who follow their path are brainwashed. They are realising that voting for the Left ultimately means the end of European/American culture.

Automatically? No of course not. More likely? Yes by quite a big margin.

You, and those post similar ideas, can claim superior knowledge and insight to your heart's content. Doesn't make you right either. I think someone who has personally witnessed the developments for 40 years is much more likely to understand all the nuances than anyone who hasn't.

The point being countered was actually the idea that the Democrats moving so far to the left was what led to Trump.

Your own opinion is as clearly wrong as that one in that there are many liberal "white" Americans opposing Trump just as there are many "black" Americans who support him. Including one of my good friends who has swallowed the bs hook line and sinker.