they didn't even bother with a pretence of a primary the second time.
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He didn't drop out until they had effectively prevented any internal challengers by waiting until the primary was over the make the switch to his hand-picked successor.
If they had had an actual primary and not just ignored all the people protest voting 'uncommitted' in the joke one that they did have they wouldn't have botched it as bad as they did. That's on democratic leadership, not the voters.
She wasn't a hand picked successor. She was a leftover campaign promise. She was what's left.
TBH I was more using that facetiously because it's what our media tends to call any regime successors in enemy countries, regardless of the accuracy