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[Newsweek] The Democrats Got What They Wanted. It Won't Help Them Win | Opinion

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-got-what-they-wanted-it-wont-help-them-win-opinion-1928192

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    What does this say about the Democrats? Not anything good. Pelosi and the other off-stage party elders who maneuvered Biden out of the race are more concerned about their hold on power than the welfare of the American people. It can be the only reason they kept Biden in the race so long, even though they could see behind closed doors what the rest of us saw and were shocked by in the first debate.

    The more than 14 million people who participated in the Democratic Party's nominating process now find that their selection nullified by Pelosi and former President Barack Obama, who, former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich tweeted Sunday, was clearly acting against Biden behind the scenes.

    "I've known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He's behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people," Blagojevich tweeted.
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    This line of attack is really weird. Yes, 18M people voted for Joe Biden in the primaries this year. What I want to know is how many of those primaries also had other candidates on the ballot vs. only having Joe Biden on them? Was Biden's presence the main reason these people turned out or were they there to vote in competitive races?

    35M people voted in the 2020 Democratic primary. Were the 21 million people who didn't vote in the primary this time also Biden supporters or were they acquiescing to the real reason turnout was so low (incumbency bias)? The Democratic party acted like a party should act: by protecting its own interests. When 70% of voters said Biden was too old to serve another term the party did what it needed in order to have a shot. Surely there's some overlap between the 14M primary voters and that 70%.

    This coming from the party that tried to invalidate 81 million votes in 2021 is very rich.
     
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    Democrats should be better than this!

    Only by blindfolding yourself to what the other guy is doing and tying an arm behind around your back will we return Decency back to America!!
     
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