• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    14 Million primary voters picked Biden in 2024.

    He won the primary, as has every incumbent for many many decades.

    We failed them, not the other way around.

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      A rigged primary, where the voters weren’t really given a choice. Voters were very vocal that they didn’t want him to run again, and the leadership openly ignored them. Next time, maybe the leadership should listen to the base that they claim they represent.

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        If he was winning primaries with 90% then clearly voters weren’t vocal about that at all. The vocals ones we saw in media didn’t properly represent the voters.

        But when statistics showed Kamala Harris had a better chance at victory, he did drop out and gave his ticket, that he won fairly in a Primary Election, to her, his vice president.

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      8 hours ago

      What primary? The democrats did everything they could to shut down primaries. From refusing to run other candidates to outright cancelling votes.