Back in 2020 he was a supposed frontrunner struggling to look like one, fresh off a sluggish performance in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. He asked New Hampshire voters to help him flip the narrative and deliver him a comeback. He snarked back at critics, belittled a younger challenger and called one woman “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event.
Then he skipped his own campaign party, headed to South Carolina, and finished a distant fifth in New Hampshire’s primary, faring worse than the former mayor of a midsized Midwestern city.
On your first point, making South Carolina first is a strategy to build enthusiasm for Democrats in a traditionally red state. Demographically, southern states are becoming younger and more progressive, and turning the Carolinas purple would be a significant electoral victory. Agree or disagree with the strategy, but you should accurately represent what they are trying to do.
As for the second point, that ship sailed a while back. The DNC chooses their candidate. The system sucks woolly mammoth dick with Miracle Whip, and we should work to change it. It will be much easier to change it when Trump is no longer in the picture.
Ah yes, because after Trump they’ll run a totally sane and tolerable alternative next.
Well, that’s the stated rationale, and you may take it at face value. I don’t trust the party’s word that easily. It’s the same party it was in 2016, and they know that red states favor centrists. Particularly South Carolina, which was the crux of Biden’s primary win in 2020.
I would have no issue with this if they changed their bylaws to state this is how things are done. The fact is, they purport to a democratic process but then fuck all over it. it’s their rules, and they can’t follow it.
it would, however, likely cause a split in the party, since there’s a lot of people already unhappy with the DNC, and actually saying the quiet part out loud would probably fracture the “big tent”
North Carolina is a blue state in a dopey red hat. We’ll get it eventually.