r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/TheCommonKoala ☑️ • Jul 21 '24

Country Club Thread It's official.

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u/1BubbleGum_Princess ☑️ Jul 21 '24

I see they’re saying he endorsed Kamala, but that’d be insulting as hell to jump over her to elect a white man for president.

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u/xxivtarotmagic_ Jul 21 '24

Yeah, it would be. But as much as I love Kamala, this is not a country that respects powerful women and certainly not powerful Black women

But I’m voting blue no matter who. We can’t let that fat, orange bastard win

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u/JManKit Jul 21 '24

It's been mentioned that keeping Kamala on the ticket is required if they want to retain all the fundraising money they've already got. I don't know if that would work if Gavin takes over as the presidential candidate or if Kamala would have to be 'upgraded' to that spot. If so, perhaps Gavin could become her VP and hopefully that'll bolster things

I'm Canadian so I don't get a say in this but I am worried as hell about it

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u/MissLilum Jul 22 '24

Legitimately what I thought the plan was that Biden gets runs the election and gets voted in then has a health crisis or similar sometime in February so Harris steps up 

Australia’s first female prime minister was due to a party shuffle (to put it lightly) as was the UK’s first nonwhite PM (to put it very lightly) so that’s  sort of where the theory is derived from