

Funny story, in that week between Biden dropping out and Harris getting the nomination, in a Lemmy thread wondering who other than Harris could be a decent presidential nominee, I mentioned Walz. I got a lot of “who?” and people commenting that he really didn’t have the name recognition to carry the ticket with that short of a time frame.

There were a lot of people who voted for AOC and Trump. AOC went out and talked to some of them, I think she posted video of some of those conversations but she talked about it a bit on social media and iirc a big refrain was it was working class uneducated people who wanted change and something other than the status quo and felt that both Trump and AOC were both something other than the status quo. Well, they were right, in an awful way.