• Pungent Llama@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Shows the importance of having a proper primary process. Biden fucked up and dropped out of the race way too late for any democratic candidate to have time to build up hype and momentum. Just being the VP shouldn’t make one an automatic default candidate. Harris did pretty bad during the Primary back in 2020, she just was not popular and didn’t inspire enough people to go vote.

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      Harris could have won, when she first announced, and then picked the left candidate for VP, her popularity skyrocketed, then cratered as she embraced the policies that had just killed the Biden campaign.

      A democrat cannot win on “we’re going to be Republicans, but more competent”.

      Which is exactly what dems are planning when they fund ICE, but ask that the gestapo stop wearing masks.

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      Harris did pretty bad during the Primary back in 2020

      Harris actually dropped out months before the primaries in 2020. She was something like 16th most popular candidate at the time she withdrew. She was a pretty unpopular AG in California at the time and likely would not have even won her own state primary.