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If Biden was so unelectable that he needed to be replaced immediately before the convention, and if 60%+ of the country thought things were on the wrong track, why would you run a Biden 2.0 campaign?

There was unique opportunity for Harris to thank Biden for his service and pivot. She should have had an answer for what she would have done differently than Biden, how she would have delivered more for Americans (regardless of if that was even possible).

Americans needed to hear Hope and Change, and she tried to sell them the status quo, but with Liz Cheney in her cabinet. Americans chose chaos, because the status quo ain’t working for them.

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If they had run Sanders back when the people demanded it, none of this crap would have gone down. Trump would just be an orange shit stan on the bottom of Bernie’s shoe. The DNC leadership deserves all the blame here.

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DNC leadership got us here more than anything. They sabotage candidates that voters want so that they can force on us candidates that big money donors prefer.

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This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Nah but seriously that’s political spin, they pick a keyword, phrase, or topic and try to make it stick by hammering it over in unison, all sides do it globally. It’s a form of PR, it’s lame AF but not really a big deal.

The bigger problem is how the DNC was able to be owned by an individual, and how outright corrupt they are in their position of kingmakers.

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When multiple people quote somebody’s statement, having each quote say the same thing isn’t a conspiracy…

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Literally no one said conspiracy.

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This article wrote Andrew Yang who should never be taken seriously by anyone.

However there’s blame everywhere here, mostly with the Democratic leadership AND the Democratic voters.

Sure, they ran a not so great campaign bit holy shit, nothing compared to the trainwreck that was Trump. But at the end of the day when voting mattered, Republican voters turned the fuck up and voted, millions of Democrats did fucking not.

Everyone has a massive amount of blame here, we are all collectively responsible even if you like I did voted for Harris and we all deserve the consequences.

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