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All I remember is the Democrats taking careful aim and blowing their own damned fool foot off by skipping primaries and choosing a COP as the candidate. Trump Bad was a crappy message, Kamala is a terrible politician.
All but two states had candidates for president on their Democratic primary ballots (fuck those two that didn't). My state had like 7 candidates to pick from. And then again for the convention, after Biden dropped out, they opened up the field for candidates to declare again and the pledged delegates all voted on the nominee. What you really should be mad at is that there weren't any serious challengers running, but that's the fault of those individuals for not doing so (even it was under private pressure from the DNC it was their own choice to capitulate). You're also forgetting that a measly 4% of primary voters showed up to vote for "Uncommitted," which turned out to be hugely successful in drawing media attention to the discontent of active voters and contributed to Biden's eventual stepping down.
yeah I have plenty of gripes with the DNC but having the vice president run in the presidents place when he stepped down is not one of them. Honestly the whole super delegate thing bothers me way more than that one thing.
they changed the convention rules for superdelegate in 2017, now they don't even get to vote for the nominee unless the pledged delegates can't elect a nominee in the first round of voting at the convention. Not that the superdelegates even mattered in 2016, as Hillary won the popular primary vote and had enough pledged delegates.
I’ll keep being mad at the shit ass DNC for everything they did to steal two elections. And hand another to a segregationist rapist corporatist shitbag in Biden.
You should be mad about it. But I think that anger should be expressed by bringing more people to the primaries to tell the DNC we will elect our own nominee rather than roll over and take what they want us to. Look at Mandami and AOC, they got on the ballot in spite of the party insiders and donors, because the people showed up to vote.
Your memory is bad, or, more likely, propagandized.
Biden won the 2024 primaries. He should have admitted to himself he wasn't capable anymore, but he didn't.
By the time he stepped down the Dems had a little problem: they couldn't legally put anyone else on the ballot in a fair number of states. Or at least it would been argued in court they couldn't. Harris was literally the only choice available, unless they just didn't run a candidate in half the country, by virtue of being on the ticket already.
Yes, the Democrats are running a geriocracy and have been openly puppeting a fair number of senile senators for a decade so they probably figured they could get away with it again.
Yes, Biden and the people surrounding him fucked it up by refusing to acknowledge reality.
Yes, Harris obviously wasn't a good enough candidate.
You should probably put a little more effort into knowing what actually happened before complaining though.