Biden Trump debate- they must get rid of Biden now?

Trump will turn the USA into North Korea. One rich fat man ruling over a nation of impoverished half starved citizens too weak to overthrow him.
If he gets in his first priority will be to make sure he can never be voted out again.

Surely Trump's main appeal to his backers is that he is a useful idiot?

In terms of a black female candidate for president, I think someone like Condoleeza Rice is much more plausible than someone like Harris - she's experienced in politics at a high level, is well respected, good name recognition, and very capable. Not a Democrat though. But I don't think she's got any interest in the job in any case.

That's not enough to take on the presidency, nowhere near enough. I think she'd be more than capable if she wanted it, but she'd need to do a Hillary and do some time in the house or in the cabinet.

My DF’s Parkinson’s manifested itself just like this. The debate took place in the evening when Biden might have been sundowning. His very quiet speech, tailing off at the end of a sentence, starting coherently but losing his thread and petering out into silence, all very recognisable Parkinson traits.

The following day he addressed a rally where he was absolutely present, coherent, audible and articulate. Again, very recognisable.

The question American voters have to ask is whether they would prefer a President with failing health who makes sense most of the time but will need a good support system, or one who shouts and blusters but makes no sense at all.

@CelesteCunningham that actually sounds like what she was doing when she worked in administration at a Chicago hospital. Not a global stage of course.

But haven't we got our own dilemma next week? Rock and hard place I think.
We've had 25 years of labour in Wales who have done absolutely nothing for the country - but at the same time we've had the conservatives for God knows how long who have done very little for the UK - I have no idea who to vote for

Michelle Obama is a remarkable woman and I think she would make an excellent politician - but she isn't a politician and has no real relevant experience for the job. Part of the reason she's so popular is that she's never had to stand in front of a group of people and explain to them that she isn't funding their cause because she finds another more deserving. She's never had to publicly make the tough calls. She's capable of it, don't get me wrong, but she has chosen not to put herself in that position and who can blame her.

Barack was lightning in a bottle - a politician with enough intelligence and dignity to take the job seriously but also enough charisma to win over the crowds like that! We only need to look at our own election to see how hard it is to find a personality like that. And he was Black! But the Right Kind Of Black who grew up with a white family - other Black politicians will have a much harder time in such a racist electorate.

Michelle isn't the answer, but it's horrific that among all their congressmen, senators and governors the Democrats can't find a better prospect to take on Trump.

How utterly deluded do you have to be to have completely failed to notice that every “successful” US politician is AIPAC endorsed. If you’re not supporting genocidal Israel, you don’t stand a chance of getting ahead politically in the vast majority of US states! Look at the millions AIPAC spent trying to unseat Jamal Bowman, who dared to criticise the Gaza genocide.

Exactly this. Abstaining is the cowardly thing to do. It has been proven time and time again that the larger the voter turnout is, the more likely democrats are to win BC despite what people say, most Americans are more liberal and left leaning than not. The trump voting dipshits might get more airtime but that does not mean that they are the majority.

"Imo there's no way Barack would have been elected if he wasn't half white"

Sad as it is, and Barack Obama is an exceptional man, I tend to agree with this.

Forget about a dignified campaign if needs must @CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment

It would be interesting to see what would happen if Michelle ran.

Imo there's no way Barack would have been elected if he wasn't half white, but maybe the US is ready now. However, she deserves a dignified campaign, not being a last minute replacement.

I'm assuming she's a democrat and not a sex pest. That's a win! (But as I say, assume!)

Obama didn't just appear from nowhere and walk into the Presidency. He was preparing for decades... he was elected as Senator for Illinois back in 1997, after a successful career as a lawyer and an academic (teaching constitutional law at a renowned University), and all kinds of community leadership + activism roles, including in the church. He didn't run for President until 2009.

His wins in 2009 and 2012 showed certain swaths of America could just about vote for a black man as President, if he was exceptional, which Barack Obama is. There are plausible arguments that Trump only succeeded in 2016 as a backlash to Obama. Don't underestimate how strong racism still is in the US, and it is growing (especially thanks to all the oxygen Trump has given it). I think it'd now be even harder for a black man to get elected as President, and even harder for a black woman. It's a horrible thing.

But do we know anything about Michelle’s political beliefs?

1. Unsuccessful (at least that's the public perception)
2. Not influential
3. Weak brand recognition (in the US and abroad)
4. Woman
5. Woman of colour

Could someone explain why Kamala H is so unpopular-

I thought it was because she was given soem difficult area to do something with - like border controls which have't gone well but PP have said she doesn't seem to come across well in speeches.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60061473

This suggest it was the tough assignments ( instead of being built up and put in place to run she was given the impossible tasks) but also more there's been fair bit of staff turn over under her as well.

Yes Barak Obama had been a senator

What is the evidence of this? How did Obama get elected then? Sure this demonstrates racism is not a factor to stop a black candidate being elected?

Could someone explain why Kamala H is so unpopular- is it just pure racism and sexism or something else going on?

I have his book beside the bed, I should really read it 🙄 but still I think Michelle has spent enough time knocking around the corridors of power that she's a safe pair of hands. And they elected the orange buffoon, with nothing to recommend him. So a lack of political experience doesn't seem to be an obstacle!

Barack was a senator for years, I think - the presidential campaign wasn't his first foray into politics.