They never had a debate even though there were a couple candidates running. Biden has been mentally troubled for the last 9 months or so. It was party hubris that led to this crisis.
I’m going to point out my initial statement, candidates and voters have to engage in the primary process if it is to be effective in ousting an incumbent.
I didn’t realize that RFK Jr. and Williamson were the best alternatives that Dems had to offer. That they were given equal funding and air time. That they got a fair chance to square off against the president directly over ideas. Carry on then.
If only there were some sort of process we could have engaged in to select a candidate people actually want to vote for.
in 2016, SCOTUS said we can’t have that, either, after we picked the wrong candidate.
But in 2020 the process picked Biden and again in 2024.
I wish we had a better process. It’s clearly shit
The process is mostly fine. It’s the voters (or lack there of) that are shit.
edit: never mind, don’t know what I was thinking
Joe Biden would have won the primary. I don’t really think it would have even been close.
They never had a debate even though there were a couple candidates running. Biden has been mentally troubled for the last 9 months or so. It was party hubris that led to this crisis.
Oh, SNAP! That’s a brilliant idea! I want to do that. Let’s do that! Why haven’t we ever done that?!?!
–It just seems so democratic
The US doesn’t like democracies
You have to have voters and candidates engaged in that process. Biden by all accounts won the primary by a landslide.
That is a pretty generous use of the word ‘won’.
RFK JR and Marianne Williamson ran against him and it was basically no contest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
That’s specifically why he’s saying “won”… there was no competition.
What if I told you… it was designed this way.
I’m going to point out my initial statement, candidates and voters have to engage in the primary process if it is to be effective in ousting an incumbent.
Then why did he win through write-ins where he wasn’t even on the ballot?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68077090
I didn’t realize that RFK Jr. and Williamson were the best alternatives that Dems had to offer. That they were given equal funding and air time. That they got a fair chance to square off against the president directly over ideas. Carry on then.
There was no primary.