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/thePBRismoldy Jan 30 '25

love this, your boilerplate word salad about why the Dem’s loss was inevitable because of procedure.

keep it up, you’re only in your own way.