• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    She didnt “have to” align with Biden as much as she did. That was a clear mistake and a missed opportunity. She also didnt have to support the far right wing israeli genocide. She didnt have to spend the entire last month of her ground game trying to appeal to disaffected repiblicans, losing dem base support every single day in the process. She didnt have to do so poorly on the economy issue either.

    Lets face it, she was a flawed candidate. She’s a political noob who by her past performance appears hesitant to take policy positions.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m saying as a subordinate in the Whitehouse she cannot largely deviate from the official position to the degree and outside candidate could.

      Lots of other failings, as you point out. But on the topic of Israel there is little that could have been said, even if there was the desire.

      I’m not excusing her of anything, I think it was a flaw of picking her as the candidate.

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        2 hours ago

        I’m saying as a subordinate in the Whitehouse she cannot largely deviate from the official position

        She absolutely can. VP is an elected position, whats he going to do, fire her? cut her out of decisions? Decisions already literally werent her job. And he could read a poll the same as the rest of us. He should have understood that she needed to play to win. You’re confusing loyalty with her inability to grab the ring and lead.