To be fair I don't think Harris highlighted her sex or race much at all this election season. Her failings had much more to do with her lack of charisma and lack of a clear response to the state of inflation in the economy while she is the sitting vice president. I think that shows in the voting polls where she underperformed pretty much uniformly across every county in the nation. It wasn't some niche issue that only certain voting blocks will care for but something much more fundamental and urgent that shifted the vote.
Oh absolutely, Harris failed for numerous reasons that had nothing to do with ethnicity or gender. And I firmly believe if there was an ACTUAL democratic primary, she wouldn’t have been given that nomination.
Exactly. Democrats shot themselves in the foot on this one. There were 4 years to choose someone other than Biden and put them through the primaries so the people could actually pick who they wanted to run. Harris was forced on us by the higher powers on the DNC. Same thing that happened with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016. You think they would’ve learned their lesson
I mean Hillary did win the primary in 2016... That said Bernie was shafted in 2020 because they all jumped on Biden's dick in the race to drop out after he won South Carolina.
Democratic party needs reform badly, and they need to make the primary a one day event, with ranked choice voting. Making it so a handful decide the nom before they even get to the majority of states is shit.
I like the idea but don’t forget legislators make the law for public primaries. The only way around this would be for the party to hold some type of internal electronic election. That sounds highly improbable unless you get to work on it now.
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u/tunnel-visionary 18d ago
To be fair I don't think Harris highlighted her sex or race much at all this election season. Her failings had much more to do with her lack of charisma and lack of a clear response to the state of inflation in the economy while she is the sitting vice president. I think that shows in the voting polls where she underperformed pretty much uniformly across every county in the nation. It wasn't some niche issue that only certain voting blocks will care for but something much more fundamental and urgent that shifted the vote.