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The Democratic Process

I'm seeing a lot of concern trolling on the right about how Harris being the presumptive nominee is unfair to the close to 15 million Democrats who voted for Biden in the primary. My own take on this is that since Harris is Biden's VP, the assumption was that if something happened to him, Harris would take over. Well, something happened to him. In fact, technically Biden was never the nominee, just the assumed nominee, as no one will be nominated until the convention (or the virtual convention which will take place earlier to meet several states' filing deadlines).

So I'm asking our conservative SW members, if the way it was done wasn't "democratic," what would you suggest? If nominating Harris at the convention won't be good enough, then nominating anyone else who isn't even in Biden's administration, like Newsom, Whitmer, Shapiro, Pritzker, Beshear, Kelly, etc. won't be good enough either. There isn't time to redo the primaries. So what would you suggest? With all the complaining about this, I haven't seen a single suggestion of how the Democrats could have a "democratic" nomination process.
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Harris?Sanders 2024!
@SatyrService Harris isn't going to pick another old guy. Which is why Gov. Cooper is out. The top contenders are Kelly and Beshear. Beshear might have the edge because he's term limited anyway, while Kelly could be replaced with a Republican at the next election. Shapiro is a possibility as he might bring in Pennsylvania.
@LeopoldBloom i thought an older guy would be a good match,, for older people
my real thought is that he w was SO Popular, even with young voters, before the DNC tossed him out, he could have beaten Trump
i KNEW Clinton could not
@SatyrService If we weren't stuck with the obsolete, slave-era Electoral College and had a national popular vote, Clinton would have won.

Sanders didn't have enough votes to win the nomination. There's no way he would have won against Trump, who would have tarred him as a communist. Trump would have won the popular vote against Sanders.

Biden actually polled well among older Americans, possibly because they're afraid Trump will end Social Security. It will be interesting if Harris picks up that demographic.