• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    However, it got off to a less than stellar start. The three moderate candidates in the race – Jill Stein, Cornel West and Chase Oliver – were barred from participating.

    Instead, the contest pitted the two frontrunners: former President Donald Trump, the candidate of the far-white Republican Party, widely thought to be the political wing of white-Christianist militias, and Kamala Harris, the current vice president, who led a palace coup two months ago that forced the ageing, unpopular incumbent, President Joe Biden, to abandon his quest for re-election.

    When did Aljazeera get this 🔥

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      2 months ago

      The debate is literally an agreement between Donald trump and kamala Harris. There is no neutral debate commission involved. This doesn’t really make sense.

      Those candidates are free to have their own debate if they think they can convince someone to put them on TV.

      Edit: Also is Jill Stein a “moderate”?

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      Point of order, Kamala didn’t “lead” anything, she was chosen by party insiders of the clinton wing to take over.

      Also Aljazeera has always been highly critical of the US, I started reading them fairly regularly in the mid 2000’s as they were one of the only outlets criticizing Bush. (I don’t think the intercept existed yet.)