Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
She doesn’t have a choice because the party isn’t allowing a primary.
They know they have a captive audience. As shitty as Biden is, he’s obviously better than any Republican and 3rd party doesn’t have a chance.
The party would rather risk depressing turnout than someone progressive winning a primary
There is no progressive that could win the primary anyway. The risk the establishment is guarding against is about damaging Biden. I don’t feel confident about his chances against anyone but Trump, but there just isn’t an alternative politician with the strength to challenge him as an incumbent. He simply hasn’t been bad enough for weakly ideological primary voters to vote against the incumbent and the names with the biggest progressive gravitas already lost against him last time without that hindrance.
In 2020 29 candidates entered the Dem primary…
I’m pretty sure most are still around here somewhere
But between this in your other reply I already got, I’m picking up a pattern
2020 was an open primary and the two biggest progressives in that race (and reasonably argued the two most prominent progressives period) have both ruled out running against Biden. Who’s the next strongest challenger on that list, Julian Castro? You’re not unseating an incumbent president who’s been just sort of middling with a no-name.
And you’re spamming the same post across the comments here, you shouldn’t be surprised if you see a pattern in the responses.
That’s exactly how they lost in 2016.