All of that happened in 24 days.
The election.
Election Day is in 3 1/2 months and early ballots
start going out actually in two months.
So, you know, for our overseas listeners, whom we hear
from a lot, y'all are used to doing these things
on a really tight timeline.
In the United States, a little bit less so, although
if you go back to the 1970s and before, there's
obviously precedent.
Jeffrey, can you put this timeline in perspective?
We always say that voters TuneIn after Labor Day anyway.
So does this truncated timeline matter now or do you
think it's just like, you know, it is what it
is?
I yeah, I'm not sure if it does matter.
Like, on the one hand, I think so it would
maybe it depends on who ends up being the Democratic
nominee.
So presumably it will be Vice President Kamala Harris, presumably,
but we don't actually know that with certainty because none
of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention are pledged
to vote for Kamala Harris.
They're pledged to vote for Joe Biden and then presumably
would then just vote to re nominate the vice president
attached to him.
So in that sense, just thinking about like the timeline
of things, if it was anybody else who people weren't
as familiar with, maybe perhaps that would create more of
an issue.
But I also think that it's enough time for like
a national campaign to develop.
And also the whole problem for Democrats with the Biden
mess has been they have been had a very difficult
time making this election about Donald Trump, which is their
entire like, it's how they did better in the 2022
midterms was Roe V Wade falling and the election being
about Trump and the court.
And it's like, if you're trying to replay that strategy,
Biden had this debate that was supposed to be like
a reset to do that did not happen.
In fact, the exact opposite happened.
It was, you know, exists exacerbated people's worries about his
age.
And so to me, it's, it's sort of just when
thinking about like the timeline, I, I, I think it's,
I think it's enough time for a national campaign to
be carried out that that involves, you know, a vice
sitting vice president and a former president.
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