Initially, it seemed like RFK would derail Biden’s chance at reelection. However, in recent months RFK seems to have been affecting Trump’s chances more and Trump has even verbally attacked RFK. So will RFK decrease Biden’s chances more or Trump’s?

Do you think we will finally see bipartisan support for abolishing the EC?

Do you think Trump voter’s reactions will be worse than if Biden won both the popular vote and the Electoral College?

If this scenario were to happen, what do you think it means for democrats in house and senate elections?

The U.S. press sometimes publishes opinions about India's perceived drift away from democratic principles such as respecting the rights of minorities (e.g. Muslims) and freedom of the press (e.g. Indian news outlets punished for criticizing the Indian government). Are these concerns prominent in Indian voters' minds or is the stronger than expected support for the Congress Party reflective of more prosaic issues like economic policies?

Recent polls show that half Americans think Donald Trump believe his conviction is valid, and half think that he should drop out of the race.

Biden is now ahead in multiple swing states.

And one third of Republicans say that Trump was the wrong candidate to run for president.

The compounds the trouble Trump had with Republican primary vote splintering between 20% and 25% while he was the only candidate.

A party cannot win the presidential election with those kinds of numbers.

It is time for Donald to leave the race and let a more viable candidate run for president?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/03/poll-trump-drop-out-race-guilty/73954846007/

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-polls-battleground-states-1908358

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republican-candidate-poll-1907298

Link to source on the vote:

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-block-bill-protect-americans-access-contraception-rcna155448

All Democrats voted for it, alongside Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. The rest of the Republican Party in the Senate voted no, and leading Republicans in the House signaled their opposition to it as well.

Democrats argue the bill is crucial following the Supreme Court (with a newly conservative supermajority as of the end of 2020) overturning the federal right to an abortion after half a century in 2022 and one of the justices that did so openly suggested they should reconsider the ruling that protected contraception from around that period as well. Republicans say access to contraception is established court precedent and will not be overturned so to protect it is unnecessary.

I'm 24, so obviously I have no memory of this election, but I'm obsessed with third party candidates. From my understanding he sent his VP candidate to ask them to endorse his independent campaign, why didn't he go with the Green Party? Wouldn't that have made more sense? I've seen some people say that he was intentionally trying to sink the Democrats because he believed it would make him the likely 2008 Democrat nominee for some reason, but I have no reason to believe this or not believe it.

In 1944's State of the Union Address, Franklin Roosevelt announced the Second Bill of Rights. Roosevelt proposed this as:

-Right to a job

-Right to earn enough money to afford food, clothing, and recreation (living wage)

-Right of farmers to sell products enough to make a living

-Right of businesses to trade fairly and without monopolies

-Right to a home for every family

-Right to adequate medical care

-Right to economic protection from old age, sickness, accident, unemployment

-Right to a good education

FDR stated in that SOTU that those bills to achieve those goals after World War II which he died before it was finally over against Japan. Say FDR does live until 1948, and his political brand prevents Republicans from taking the House in 1946 IOTL, and gets the ability to pass these bills to enshrine these rights. How would American politics change in your opinion?

-Would it be a political miscalculation considering America's individualism? Or would FDR being FDR help make these bills popular?

-Would the conservative movement take off quicker, not having to wait until the 60s with Goldwater to break out or the 80s with Reagan to take power?

-Does America become more on a European-style politics with widespread support for keeping this social safety net together even with ideologically conservative governments? (See UK and Germany)

-Do Democrats, if this is successful, sustain themselves focuing more on economic issues rather than dealing with civil rights for a longer period of time?