re: #46 darthstar

Join the club. I never liked HC as a presidential candidate. She was a very good Senator and would be running the show if she’d stayed in. And she was an excellent Secretary of State under President Obama. But she was a bad candidate to have run against Trump. If President Biden’s son hadn’t died of brain cancer we’d be coasting through his second term right now and the Democratic primary race would be his VP (it wouldn’t have been Harris in 2016) versus a crowded field.

Don’t underestimate Trump’s skill in defeating better prepared, more experienced, more knowledgeable opponents. He managed to finish off 15 candidates in the GOP primary. Obviously Hillary had specific issues — the discomfort of many about a female candidate, the Benghazi investigation instigated for the sole purpose of damaging her reputation, the Clinton history. Then when she was the nominee, the assault against her by Comey and the FBI.

Trump was “new” and exciting to the public — the media spending time showing an empty platform waiting for his arrival would have behaved exactly the same way if Biden were the nominee. We really don’t know what would have happened — whether Biden could have pulled it off or been subjected to similar assaults, given that the NY FBI office was Trump central. It’s not as though Biden had a strong base devoted to him.