• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Because they don’t want to undermine the party and an incumbent candidate. But, if the party opened it up and asked, “Who wants to be President?,” there’d be a rush like Black Friday.

    There were 27 candidates for the nomination in 2020, but none of them are still interested?

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      4 months ago

      Well duh, you think the Democrats are just gonna say “eh, let Trump have it”

      OF COURSE the Democrats would step up if they had to. But they don’t want that scenario. That’s the whole point. They want to coalesce behind Biden.