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# The opposite of claim chowder
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/the-opposite-of-claim-chowder/
- Published: 2024-08-09T19:07:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-09T19:07:07.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, Politics, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Ezra Klein back in February 2024: [Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/ezra-klein-biden-audio-essay.html?ref=birchtree.me)

> Everybody I have talked about this, literally everybody, has brought up the same fear. Call it the Kamala Harris problem. In theory, she should be the favorite. But she polls slightly worse than Biden. Democrats don’t trust that she would be a stronger candidate. But they worry that if she wasn’t chosen it would rip the party apart. I think this is wrong on two levels.

Klein got a lot of heat for even writing this at all just 6 months ago, but this aged quite well.