You mean have an actual primary? That’s the whole point. Those folks voting for the others were NOT voting for Biden. It was a genius move. Why pretend it didn’t work when it worked like magic? Own that shit!
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Believe it or not they were under no actual obligation to to submit to the 30% plan and as soon as it became apparent that a brokered convention with a non-majority candidate was Bernie’s only hope, they successfully denied him that.
But why though? If Democrats just go out for the Democrat, then it doesn’t matter who you choose. All they had to do was choose someone at the start. Just draw straws as it doesn’t matter.
Biden showed himself to be the strongest overall candidate; that’s why they jumped for him rather than, for example, Buttigieg even though Buttigieg won Iowa that year
They HAD to do something or Bernie was going to win that thing…and as you know, there’s only one thing worse than a Republican in the WH and that’s a leftist in the WH.
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The people who dropped out realized they didn’t have a path to victory and therefore staying in would only create more division and hurt the party.
By dropping out, they gave the majority of the party a single candidate to rally around.
Then it became clear they didn’t and they’d rather have a Democrat as the Democratic candidate than an independent gadfly.
Why aren’t you getting this?
And it does matter.
Biden showed himself to be the strongest overall candidate; that’s why they jumped for him rather than, for example, Buttigieg even though Buttigieg won Iowa that year
Wasn’t Biden the weakest up to that point? (Could be wrong)
It took a negotiation, a deal (cabinet position, etc)…to make it happen. It was dirty politics and also shrewd politics.
They got the Republican. Whew! Disaster averted.