• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    22 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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      18 hours ago

      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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        9 hours ago

        I still think there’s a good chance he could have won it the second time because there are enough sexist and racist democrats who stayed home who could have made a difference.

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        14 hours ago

        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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          6 hours ago

          Voters were saying it very loudly, the Democratic leadership just ignored them. Polls were very clear that nobody wanted either of them to run, and they both had a low approval ratings. The ticket wasn’t his to give, it was up to the voters. The Democrats chose to skip the voters, so the voters abandoned them.

          I don’t see why anyone would expect voters to stick with a party that treats it’s base so disrespectfully.

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              6 hours ago

              And how did that work out? Did people come out to vote for the Dems?

              Maybe if they had listened to the polls, the Dems would have had a candidate that people were willing to vote for in the main election

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                15 minutes ago

                They listened to their voters. It was a primary election. Not sure what the disconnect is here unless its your fantasy disconnected with reality.

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      22 hours ago

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