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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Right, it wasn't the media harping on every single thing the Dem candidate did wrong while apologizing and making excuses for Trump at every turn. Going on and on about Biden's age and then never bringing up age again once Biden dropped out of the race. No it's all the Dems fault 🙄

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Did you watch the first debate where Biden could hardly speak a sentence? They were right about Biden's age. And they knew that Trump voters would never listen to them so what's the point of going after him over and over?

At the end of the day the blame falls mostly on the campaign and on the party and they failed. They have to do better than this or they'll fail again.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Biden is two years older than Trump. Trump is 20 years older than Harris. You are completely sidestepping the point made by the person you're replying to.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I didn't sidestep. first of all "the media" did bring up trumps age I remember seeing it talked about. Also Biden's age was a problem. Blaming this loss on the media is like blaming the refs when you lose a game. Yeah they might've been bad refs but it's your job to win the game regardless. The way the media treats trump is not new and if the Dems didn't take that into account that was their mistake

Blaming this loss on the media is like blaming the refs when you lose a game

Closer to blaming the commentator. Nevertheless, I still like this analogy.

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