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We are where we are because Democrats fumbled an eminently winnable election, twice (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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they didn't even bother with a pretence of a primary the second time.

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[–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He didn't drop out until they had effectively prevented any internal challengers by waiting until the primary was over the make the switch to his hand-picked successor.

If they had had an actual primary and not just ignored all the people protest voting 'uncommitted' in the joke one that they did have they wouldn't have botched it as bad as they did. That's on democratic leadership, not the voters.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    She wasn't a hand picked successor. She was a leftover campaign promise. She was what's left.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Unfortunately I believe this is true.

    That campaign promise, combined with Biden's ego forcing/allowing him to press on beyond his capacity, put the Dems in a very bad position.

    If Joe Biden had been strong enough to commit and stick to a single term, they could have cultivated and promoted a much better ticket.

    It would probably still have resulted in Harris being the nominee, which was the point of that campaign promise.

    But at least it wouldn't have been the shit show we saw. Maybe she could have gathered the courage to have some differing positions from Biden/DNC

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