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Who? Who expressed any interest in running this election cycle? Who was put down?
Nobody. Because it's political suicide to run against a sitting president.
We did not have a legitimate robust primary.
I've seen this argument so many times and it's getting hard to read it as being given in good faith.
It's 100% a bad faith argument. We're dealing with the mess that the party leadership created and these people are just posturing for why it's our fault that party leaders continue to push such terrible candidates in the face of Trump. They did it in 2016, they did it again in 2020, and now once more in 2024. The blame lies squarely with them.
It’s not bad faith. We just disagree. Not everyone who disagrees with you is arguing in bad faith.
It is a bad faith argument when you're only asking people to list potential candidates so you can nitpick them away and claim that "they could have run against Biden" when we all know that's not how things work with an incumbent especially if that person needs party funding and support later down the road.
Edit: look at your comment here:
The people who've been sounding the alarm for 8 years after Clinton lost and Biden nearly lost are "children" to you. Meanwhile, you have complete faith in the party leadership who keeps fumbling the ball again and again by picking the absolute worst candidates to back. People can't even win running against a guy like Trump.
This shows your true intentions and why your argument here is in bad faith. You have blind loyalty to whomever the party picks for you and are now throwing a tantrum because they decided your guy wasn't going to cut it.
They could’ve run. Period.