Oh? Harris wasn’t part of the ticket that won the majority of delegates at the Primary…?
EDIT: Wow, Lemmy.world really wants to elect Donald Trump again. I mean, fair enough I guess (for those who can actually vote in US elections), I just wasn’t expecting all the immediate attacks to be in such bad faith.
$100,000,000 (mostly small donors) and 40,000 new voters in the 24 hours after she announced she was running.
Like anyone, she’s not perfect, but we’re excited and energized about the candidate… finally. We will fight against fascism and actually improve things with Kamala Harris…
Hilarious. But yes, there was. And Biden’s delegates were freed the moment he announced he wasn’t going to run. In other words people had 2 chances to challenge him if they wanted. It would have been an uphill battle, but it was possible. No one did…
Even ignoring all the structural issues like donors and media that prevent a truly open process the fact that Biden was the incumbent meant there was even more pressure from the DNC to not have a legitimate competitor run.
Saying she won the most delegates so she was everyone first choice is being basically blind to how the primary process actually operates.
If wealthy donors weren’t as important to the process, if she wasn’t the incumbent VP after a very unusual occupancy of the incumbent president stepping down this late, and you had something like ranked choice you would get a very different answer. This should be obvious to anyone because in the last “fair” primary in 2020 she and Biden were among the least popular candidates before the other centrists dropped out all together.
Not to mention the record-setting >100 million in grassroots small dollar donations in the first day and a half after Biden dropped out. I’d call that a lot of support.
Oh? Harris wasn’t part of the ticket that won the majority of delegates at the Primary…?
EDIT: Wow, Lemmy.world really wants to elect Donald Trump again. I mean, fair enough I guess (for those who can actually vote in US elections), I just wasn’t expecting all the immediate attacks to be in such bad faith.
$100,000,000 (mostly small donors) and 40,000 new voters in the 24 hours after she announced she was running.
Like anyone, she’s not perfect, but we’re excited and energized about the candidate… finally. We will fight against fascism and actually improve things with Kamala Harris…
There was a primary?
Hilarious. But yes, there was. And Biden’s delegates were freed the moment he announced he wasn’t going to run. In other words people had 2 chances to challenge him if they wanted. It would have been an uphill battle, but it was possible. No one did…
I can’t tell if you’re sealioning or just aggressively ignorant…
edit: Shifting the goalposts in your edit doesn’t make your original statement any less ignorant.
Even ignoring all the structural issues like donors and media that prevent a truly open process the fact that Biden was the incumbent meant there was even more pressure from the DNC to not have a legitimate competitor run.
Saying she won the most delegates so she was everyone first choice is being basically blind to how the primary process actually operates.
If wealthy donors weren’t as important to the process, if she wasn’t the incumbent VP after a very unusual occupancy of the incumbent president stepping down this late, and you had something like ranked choice you would get a very different answer. This should be obvious to anyone because in the last “fair” primary in 2020 she and Biden were among the least popular candidates before the other centrists dropped out all together.
Not to mention the record-setting >100 million in grassroots small dollar donations in the first day and a half after Biden dropped out. I’d call that a lot of support.