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In the end, The Hill lied and Harris was right.
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I have NO idea why the democrats chose Harris as the nominee. The country wouldn't vote for a white woman last time. You REALLY think they're going to vote for a woman of colour? REALLY? And then a bunch of them didn't. As predicted.
Well, that's the thing: they didn't. She didn't win the primary, Biden did; and Biden won because there was no opposition. My ballot had two choices: "Joe Biden" and "Uncommitted". I voted Uncommitted.
The country did vote for a white woman the previous time: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
So you're saying misogyny wasn't the reason they lost then?
I'm saying that more people voted for Hillary Clinton than her male opponent, which flatly contradicts the claim that people wouldn't vote for a woman. But let me ask the question: If the GOP nominated Kristi Noem as its candidate for president in 2028, would you rest assured that she couldn't win because of misogyny?
That is true, but I will add that most people I knew that voted for Hillary also did not like her.
The people will vote for women, but a disturbing amount are unhappy about it. I don't even like Hilary, but people were more biased against her than Biden for what feels like manufactured reasons to me.
The right wing propaganda machine had been at work on Hillary since even before Bill was elected President in '92, so that could certainly explain it.
There were a lot of issues with it being anyone else. Since she was already the VP and already "on the ticket", switching to anyone other than her would have brought with it a whole lot of complications and probably would have tied up all the money the Biden campaign had raised. The whole process of deciding on anyone other than her posed huge risks, especially given the time constraints. Harris was effectively the default option so they took the path that appeared to be easiest and guaranteed that the campaign kept its funding.
Maybe the gender or color didn't really matter to people who had a chance of voting Democrat anyway
Biden made hay about selecting a Black Woman as vise President. That is declaring her heir apparent.
Harris would have won if the Dem leadership let her run the campaign she wanted to. Instead they enforced civility politics and forced her to be the same as Biden.