Vice President Kamala Harris quickly racked up endorsements after
President Joe Biden exited the 2024 race, but some made the case for an
open convention.
If we had the time to rerun primaries in fifty states and ask the voters I would say we should do that, but since we don’t and Harris is a successor all the voters could have forseen when casting ballots for Biden we should just go with her.
What I’m not looking forward to is having to hear the opinions of party insider convention delegates over the next few weeks. If they try to act like extra special voters and give the nomination to someone other than Harris that’s going to be a slap in the face to voters and make any sense of party unity totally implode.
Do we not? There’s plenty of time, I don’t know if there’s enough money and infrastructure, but let’s not pretend like 4 months from the election is not plenty of time. Most countries run their entire election in half that time or less. The only reason you think there’s not enough time is cuz 24 hour news media has trained you to think elections have to be two years long.
Most countries don’t have the idiotic mess of 50 different sets of election laws and the fucking cancer that is the Republican party to deal with. We should be able to run an election with a couple of days notice, but if we tried anything like that GOP attorneys would take it to court and right wing judges would cause all sorts of chaos.
If we had the time to rerun primaries in fifty states and ask the voters I would say we should do that, but since we don’t and Harris is a successor all the voters could have forseen when casting ballots for Biden we should just go with her.
What I’m not looking forward to is having to hear the opinions of party insider convention delegates over the next few weeks. If they try to act like extra special voters and give the nomination to someone other than Harris that’s going to be a slap in the face to voters and make any sense of party unity totally implode.
Do we not? There’s plenty of time, I don’t know if there’s enough money and infrastructure, but let’s not pretend like 4 months from the election is not plenty of time. Most countries run their entire election in half that time or less. The only reason you think there’s not enough time is cuz 24 hour news media has trained you to think elections have to be two years long.
Most countries don’t have the idiotic mess of 50 different sets of election laws and the fucking cancer that is the Republican party to deal with. We should be able to run an election with a couple of days notice, but if we tried anything like that GOP attorneys would take it to court and right wing judges would cause all sorts of chaos.