r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 6d ago

'Chill The F**k Out': John Fetterman Urges Democrats To Stick With Joe Biden | The Pennsylvania senator reminded panicked Democrats on Friday that he too had a bad debate once, yet he went on to win his Senate seat.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-debate-john-fetterman_n_667ea850e4b0415858d6a2f1
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u/makeanamejoke 6d ago

not really, no. he did not run in the 2024 primary.

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u/CjKing2k Nevada 6d ago

There was no 2024 primary. We were basically told there was not going to be a 2024 primary. We were also told that if there was a 2024 primary challenger, then whoever the Dem nominee is would lose.

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u/makeanamejoke 6d ago

That's all true, biden wasn't going to lose the primary.

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u/not-my-other-alt 6d ago

I think if we'd seen last night's Biden up on a stage with Newsome, Whitmer, Beshear, Pritzker, or any one of a dozen other Democratic Senators or Governors back in January, then yes: Biden would have lost the primary.

Last night's performance would be career-ending in any other circumstance, and there's no excuse for it.

Five years ago, Biden promised that if he beat Trump, he'd be a one-term President. What he knew then, and we all saw last night, was that he doesn't have four more years of the most stressful job in the world left in him.

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u/makeanamejoke 6d ago

He never promised to be a one term president. That was just a bad headline that wasn't based on anything real.