PHOENIX (AP) – The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.

  • HarkMahlberg
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    21 year ago

    Like, he kept the ship from listing more, and he’s bailing his hardest, but, the ship ain’t righting and it’s still leaking.

    Half of the passengers are actively shooting holes into the ship. I don’t think there’s a human alive that could right it. There is no Ideal Candidate who can fix all these problems in one term - probably not even in two. So I don’t get why we’re holding Biden to this impossible standard where conservatives create problems faster than anyone can solve them, but then we hold Biden solely responsible for the both the cleanup and the progress we should have made in the meantime, but then we also won’t afford him the benefit of “helping.” In your words, “he was far from alone in that,” well why should he be?