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minus-squareKalkaline @leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down30·4 months agoYou have to have voters and candidates engaged in that process. Biden by all accounts won the primary by a landslide.
minus-squaresuburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down3·4 months agoThat is a pretty generous use of the word ‘won’.
minus-squareKalkaline @leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down12·4 months agoRFK JR and Marianne Williamson ran against him and it was basically no contest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
minus-squaresuburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·4 months agoI didn’t realize that RFK Jr. and Williamson were the best alternatives that Dems had to offer. That they were given equal funding and air time. That they got a fair chance to square off against the president directly over ideas. Carry on then.
You have to have voters and candidates engaged in that process. Biden by all accounts won the primary by a landslide.
That is a pretty generous use of the word ‘won’.
RFK JR and Marianne Williamson ran against him and it was basically no contest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
I didn’t realize that RFK Jr. and Williamson were the best alternatives that Dems had to offer. That they were given equal funding and air time. That they got a fair chance to square off against the president directly over ideas. Carry on then.
There was no primary.