President Bidenās reelection campaign raised more than $1 million through online fundraising alone in the 24 hours after the presidentās Jan. 6 anniversary speech, according to numbers exclusively provided to The Hill.
Biden on Friday gave a full throated attack against former President Trump, his likely GOP opponent, and warned Americans that Trumpās reelection would pose a threat to American democracy. The president zeroed in on Jan. 6 to mark the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riots and argued in his remarks that democracy is on the ballot in 2024.
In response to the 24-hour fundraising haul, the Biden campaign noted that they see preserving democracy as a political winner for the president in 2024.
Only if the DNC allowed a primary, which theyāre not this yearā¦
And the DNC would be allowed to influence the primary against me in anyway they wantā¦
They could even wait till I win, then say ānah, donāt think we willā and nominate Biden to the general.
This isnāt my opinion, this is what the dnc told a judge, and the judge agreed.
Even further tho, the judge said the DNC can continue to claim primaries will be fair even if theyāre not, because itās just a āpolitical promiseā and politicians apparently are 100% allowed to lie about whether theyāre honest.
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/
So yes, I can 100% try to run.
But even if I win, the DNC doesnāt have to listen to voters.
Well yeah, they already have an incumbent and no one was dumb enough to burn piles of money running a campaign to try and primary that candidate.
Yes, political parties are basically private clubs, you join them, donate money, pledge support etc. They arenāt public entities any more than the Dallas Cowboys are. They exist to aggregate money and votes, and they elect their own leaders to manage those resources. If they decide to choose their candidate via tea leaves or throwing bones, no one could stop them, save to elect new party leaders.
I donāt know how parties are run elsewhere, but thats how they work in the U.S. They arenāt constitutionally codified or defended in any way. Theyāre a shortcut for voters and super popular because they save people time and effort. If someone came up with a better way to all but guarantee votes for a candidate, it would instantly replace parties.
No, no one had the option to tryā¦
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Just so weāre on the same page, each state decides how it chooses candidates to put on the ballot. Thatās the whole thing going on with DT and the SC right now.
Derived from that power is the president primary, where parties from each state decide who to present as their candidate.
The Democratic National Committee says āOk, everyone should just submit Biden as the candidate and skip the primaryā because thatās what they decided is best.
Itās now up to the state parties to implement that decision or not. New Hampshire, for example, decided to hold a primary anyway:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-blasts-new-hampshire-democrats-over-detrimental-primary-plans/ar-AA1mArq2
But itās politics, so who knows if itāll actually happen. I just want to point out that the national committee doesnāt have power over what the states get to do, itās all just a power brokering game.
States canāt put someone a ballot for a race that doesnāt existā¦
Itās not that Biden is unopposed, itās that there isnāt going to be a race.
And the only ones that have a say, are the people running the DNC.
Since thatās mostly decided by how much money you can pull inā¦
How is this not the rich overriding democracy?
Thatās just not how it works. If New Hampshire decides to put Steamboat Willy on the ballot, only the SC could stop them, maybe. itās kind of up in the air right now apparently.
Realistically, no one wants to give up that sweet national committee money, so theyāll probably cave, and it is the rich owning democracy. Thatās why I kept saying youād have to light money on fire to get it done, but it could theoretically be done: you just have to grease a lot of wheels.
Actually, never mind
tl;dr: be the highest bidder.