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Democracy happens at the general election. Primaries are held by the parties and they decide their own rules. Are you saying US was not a democracy before the 70s when delegates picked candidates without regards to the primaries?
There was a Democratic primary. Biden won this year’s primary and Kamala did not have a challenger.
Delegates are pledged during the primary, but are not voted until the convention.
Seeing as the delegates pledged for the Biden/Harris campaign, its pretty reasonable to think they were already happy with Harris as a potential president. The 99% pledge she just got from the same delegates makes it deafeningly clear that is still the case.
I mean, we literally had to riot to get competitive primaries...
We shouldn't just give them away.
Nothing to do this year, but 2028 needs a competitive primary even if it's Harris again
I don't understand why this is downvoted. It is important to have meaningful primaries. The Biden dropout kerfuffle is a direct result of skipping this for incumbents. On top of that, primaries are a great way for new voices to gain some name recognition.
If you look back at who people were talking about replacing Biden with, you can see that the majority were drawn from the 2020 primary. It's vital to keep that process moving so we don't have years where we have to replace a candidate in a panic at the last moment, and in the event that the unforeseeable happens, it is just as vital to have runners up to replace the candidate with. Having competitive primaries every election is something we should absolutely make a priority.
There's literally no bigger platform to talk to Americans than presidential elections, and that includes primary.
Wasting it just makes zero sense. It's hours and hours of free prime time TV and media coverage, for basically anything you want to talk about.
You could literally ignore every question these days and just do stump speeches.