Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33
And your dumb party ran her anyway. The party of the stupid.
There wasn't a choice as long as Biden insisted on hanging around, and since he was finally persuaded long after the Dem convention nominated him, there wasn't any process in place to put anyone up there other than Harris.
The dumb part was not shoving Biden aside. Granted, he really didn't start to crumble until fairly recently, but I do recall him saying that he was going to be a one-term President. Now, granted, getting the mechanism to replace him going too soon would have undermined policies like the Infrastructure Act, but he should have announced his exit at the end of 2023, giving his party a whole year to prepare.
I also think they relaxed when they saw that Trump would be their opponent, especially given all the criminal cases against him. It looked like an impending win by default.
It's too bad. Mayor Pete, among others, would have won in a walk. The next Dem candidate won't be a WOOMUN. Neither will the next seventeen.