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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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MarkPaul · 26-30, M
According to this latest nonsense from the Republicans, no candidate should have the right to exit the race. The Democrats may have been petty and backstabbing in arguing for Biden to drop out, but in the end he made the decision and he took the action. They literally want to force him into staying on the ticket he has now chosen to leave. Just wait until they want to dump Insurrectionist-Cry-Baby-trump and his weird sidekick, JD Vance. Then, they will have a change of tune.
@MarkPaul They need to read the 13th amendment.

They have no argument. Biden isn't the nominee, he was the presumptive nominee. If he'd dropped dead, what were they going to do, sue God and demand that he be resurrected?
SW-User
@MarkPaul The rumour is that Trump is on the verge of dumping Vance. So much for no candidates having the right to drop out.
@SW-User I'm only hearing this from Democratic sources, so I suspect the origin is that the guy is obviously such a mistake, they have no choice but to dump him. The problem is that Vance is a puppet of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and they're going to be upset if he's replaced. Also, Trump and Trump Jr. really like him, apparently.
SW-User
@LeopoldBloom Well I hope he stays. He’s a liability 😊