So long as there’s a proper primary I don’t see the harm in this, not really. I can’t see her running a good enough campaign to make it through the primaries, at least not without also having a good enough campaign to beat the fascist party after Trump.

the key here is “proper primary.” I can’t remember a time when they’ve had one that wasn’t fucked up in some way.

2024 was the only year recently we didn’t have a primary.

neat. i have been voting for longer than that. there have been years where there was only one person on the primary, which efficiently means “primary votes are cancelled” - when the dnc say they want the incumbent.

that is a de facto cancellation. telling the people who could vote that they are ignored.

my point stands: the dem side needs to do a better job.

I’ve been voting since I was 18 and I’ve never seen that in the past 16 years.

yeah. see. i disagree that incumbents should be given anything. earn it. primary every time.

i have been voting since 1997.

From what I’ve read the reason primaries aren’t done on incumbents is because every single time it’s been tried the incumbent lost the actual election and the seat went to the other party.

? If incumbent wins the primary its the same as if they didn’t have one but at least the party members chose.

primaries are separate by party.

It’s not a thing that happens often, but as far as I can find every single time the incumbent president has had someone try to primary them, the incumbent’s entire party lost the seat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_challenge

interesting. maybe a spread in focus leads to loss.