Was it a selfless act of Biden to resign as the candidate of the Democrats?

[noname223]

I think Trump would not have done the same.

Still there are many different perspectives.

He should have stepped down way earlier and he (and his staffers) should have been self-aware about his condition and should have built up a new candidate. If Harris loses now many will blame Biden.

The pressure had to climb to the maximum before he resigned. Was it impossible not to resign? Personally, I think they would have still supported him in August probably.

On the other hand this is the only way to remain his legacy. He was also aware about the polls and the staffers are not that stupid to live in a different reality. If a second debate was a similar catastrophe they would be responsible for a second term of Trump with potential democratic downturn of the US.

 

[fleetingnight]

I assume it's to salvage whatever good reputation he has left. I don't trust that any politician would do something selfless. Though, I appreciate that he did either way, even if it had nothing to do with people like me

 

[lemonbunny]

i think it's working out arguably well for kamala. one conservative commentator said that trump's mistake was picking jd vance (who's getting a lot of flack now) while he was confident that biden was on the down low. now all the senile jokes won't work and they need to come up with new shit to hate kamala on while she's also picking from a strong bench of potential VPs. making up sexist rumors that she slept her way up really aren't helping the republicans' chances.

one thing, for example, that could be used to turn progressives against kamala is linking her with the feds/police brutality... except trump is in cahoots with back the blue. so she really does come off as the lesser evil even to skeptics. the polls are narrowing now that the dems have an energetic new candidate. biden's choice to step down when he did was not bad; i think he'll be remembered fondly for domestic policy if not anything else and his post-dropout address comes off as someone who put democracy over his own self-interest.

 

[fwompie]

He was 100% pressured into it from all kinds of sides. If he was going to be selfless he would have resigned last year.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

He had to resign. He told the American public that he would never lie to them. On the vast, vast majority of issues he never did lie. But, he made a pledge that he won't be able to keep. He said that he wouldn't pardon his son, Hunter, after he gets sentenced in November. He realized that he's going to have to do just that. If I were president, and my son was facing several years in prison, I would pardon him, too. If he got reelected, he'd lose a lot of credibility with the electorate after going back on his pledge to not pardon his son. Look for him to pardon Hunter sometime in January 2025 before he leaves office. Hunter will still have to do a month, month and a half in prison. Mark my words.

 

[Blurry_Buildings]

I believe Trump will still win the presidency, but maybe I'm wrong. Kamala seems very unpopular in the midwest/ rust belt between those who felt like she unfairly targeted people as District Attorney and working class people who are afraid of inflation and losing their jobs to immigrants.

Bidens actions are admirable but they are too late.

 

[newave3]

When Biden heard he had resigned, he was very angry.