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Cool. But what about all the other Democrat candidates?
I know it might be easy to say I'm saying this with the benefit of hindsight. But he was down in popularity pretty much the whole time.
Inflation has hit poorer people hard and even the most optimistic person wouldn't expect his economic policy to trickle down to peoples lived experience before the election. On that last point even if you disagree you could see that people in the US didn't believe that the economic situation was improving.
I guess the counter is that Biden was the one who beat him. He was the cross party legacy white dude with a strong track record.
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The Dems would rather have a shit candidate who was under control than risk an open primary process leading to an off message candidate, eg Kennedy.
Keeping control in the hands of the leadership is more important to them than winning.
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He probably did think he was best placed to win as the type of people who win elections think like that.
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dst2
Of course, the biden people story is that he pulled back because he didn't believe that KH could win after getting a look.