“Florida Democrats don’t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ‘Florida!!!’ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,” Politico reports.

“But their excitement around the news is less about ‘why?’ and more about leveraging Swift’s celebrity status to fill the blank space for beleaguered voters tired of losing to Republicans.

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    Jon Ossoff

    But Biden himself said there’s over 50 other Dems who could beat trump.

    Why are you acting like that’s not true?

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      I mean, maybe? But Jon Osseff is untested. A brand-new US Senator whose background hasn’t been scrutinized to the degree Biden’s has (and who largely remains clean). Quite a gamble. And before you mention Obama, Obama wasn’t hijacking an Incumbent presidency. Entirely different situation.

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        And before you mention Obama, Obama wasn’t hijacking an Incumbent presidency. Entirely different situation.

        He ran against Hillary…

        She had more party support than most incumbents.

        And suddenly we’ve switched to Joe Biden fighting to win a primary from him begrudgingly taking the nomination because no one else can.

        Giving voters a say in who they have to vote for in the general is never a bad thing. People feeling like they have no say in the primary are less likely to vote in the general

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          I don’t know what to say. Biden won; Hillary didn’t. And Ossef is no Obama. We’re in a shitty situation with no good data-backed solutions.

          At the end of the day, nobody stopped anyone from running a primary against Biden.

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            At the end of the day, nobody stopped anyone from running a primary against Biden.

            Lol, yeah, the blacklisting stopped when the DNC stopped publicly announcing it.

            Biden himself said there’s a bunch of other options, so if I’m wrong so is Biden.

            Stop defending someone by disagreeing with them, listen to what they say instead of just rationalizing with whatever you assume

            And do t expect me to try and help you understand anything else.