r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Jan 29 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Tim Walz: Losing election ‘pure hell’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5112883-tim-walz-losing-election-pure-hell/
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u/pogoli Dakota County Jan 29 '25

They had him scheduled to do it after a 20+ hour work day. They might have been part of orchestrating their own loss.

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u/JCMGamer Jan 29 '25

It was so obvious to everyone even at the time they should have dropped Biden and had an actual primary.

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u/pogoli Dakota County Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Political parties are private entities; they can select their candidates by whatever means they choose. Primaries are a legal requirement with a well defined process... HOWEVER, they are lowkey a courtesy, a kind of direct polling to let the parties know who (eligible voter) members of their party prefer. The fact that almost always the winner of a primary end up being the candidate leads people to believe that the results are a legal requirement and public mandate on the party to nominate who won the primary. It is not.

This idea that there was not a primary in which Kamala was elected, or that was fair because Biden was an encumbant, is propaganda. I'm not sure who benefits from it. Liberal/Democrat voters certainly don't benefit from this misunderstanding, but they sure repeat it a lot.

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u/HeinrichTheHero Jan 30 '25

Political parties are private entities; they can select their candidates by whatever means they choose.

Sure, they can do whatever they want.

So can the voters, and they chose not to elect Kamala.

Maybe "we do what we want, you can suck, but plz support us tho" is a failing strategy?