“The answer to Ms. McCaskill’s question is a complicated mix of historical circumstance and structural deficiencies, a party struggling with ideological and generational fissures, and an aging Democratic president who spent his life battling for this job.”
“Many of them, including the president’s top aides, drew what could prove to be overly encouraging lessons from Mr. Biden’s victory against Mr. Trump in 2020, his run of policy victories as president and the party’s surprisingly strong showing in the midterm elections of 2022.”
“And some 50 years after the Democratic Party rewrote its rules to marginalize the role of political bosses, there was also no leader to step in and quietly prepare a Plan B.
Other key Democratic figures who might have pressed Mr. Biden to consider retiring, or suggested an alternate plan, like Mr. Obama or Bill and Hillary Clinton, have moved on to their own post-White House lives and, operating outside Mr. Biden’s close circle of advisers, did not to appear to be in position to engage the Bidens in such a sensitive conversation
“At key moments, those who tried to sound the alarm about Mr. Biden’s potential weaknesses — among them David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist, and James Carville, who helped elect Bill Clinton in 1992 — were slapped down by Democrats, often in the brutal discord of social media sites like X, and chastised by top Biden aides for being disloyal.”
我個人認為應該沒有人會在這時候說自己要選當炮灰啦，真的有機會的還不如等到2028，既不會得罪拜登支持者，也不會破壞黨內秩序，又可以重新佈局。而且就算這任川普當選，也已經是第二任了，到時共和黨也是要另外推出新人；這一任如果拜登當選，那川普到時候82歲應該也是氣數已盡。
總之2028是個比較好的時機，現在會願意來選的應該是那種有點聲量但呼聲不夠高的。比如說不怎麼受歡迎的副總統啊，和拜登調換一下就原搭檔繼續選？不過結果可能一樣會輸XD
她的腳大概是高跟鞋的形狀。
剛剛一查，她現在84歲，所以去年是83歲耶。看起來是比拜登保養的好⋯