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Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again
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There was nothing wrong with Harris except seven million people who voted for Biden weren't ready for her to become president.
It is more like 250k in 4 states that flipped.
Harris got about seven million less votes then Biden.
In states that didn't matter. In every swing state but Pennsylvania they had record turnouts. She even beat some of bidens support in those states and still lost. 7 million isn't the story it is she didn't really gain 250k votes in 4 key states and lost.
I didn't enjoy what she did as district attorney. I would also argue if she was not electable in 2024, then she doesn't meet the bar of a "good candidate". Now her viability is irrelevant entirely, unless she plans to run in 2028.
I think it is more of a reflection of the voters and non-voters.
Harris, like Hillary, was put forward without the express will of the people - she didn't win a primary over Biden, because there was no primary elections.
Arguably the "will of the people" was exercised through them supporting the Democratic party. The Democratic party put forth a new candidate in accordance with their own guidelines, which were in place prior to 2024. This was no coup, it was the Democratic party putting forth a candidate as they may. This is not new. They can put forth anyone they wish.
Kamala was put into place by receiving the most votes during a virtual roll call: https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_delegate_rules%2C_2024
If one supports the Democratic party, surely one would sanction the process by which Kamala became the presidential candidate, as they were acting in accordance of their own party guidelines, which were in place long before this election. If a president would have withdrew prior to Biden, the exact same process would have taken place. A similar action took place in 1972 when VP nominee Thomas Eagleton withdrew. None of this is new.
The "will of the people" was Joe Biden, who won the Democratic primary quite handily. However, the Joe Biden people thought they were voting for wasn't the Joe Biden we actually had, as there was a very deliberate effort to hide his declining health by the party leadership. Hence the whole reason they had to change candidates, once it became too obvious that Biden wasn't fit to serve another term as president.
So while the Democratic party still followed their processes and guidelines by ultimately putting forth Kamala Harris as their candidate, it's not like they had to do it because Biden withdrew due to some freak accident or something like that. You can't really sanction what they did when the whole thing is rooted in the party leadership deliberately deceiving people.
I think the bigger problem is that she is a non-white woman.