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You seem to hung up on the fact that presidential nominee that both DNC and the democratic party voters chose got health issues and the party chose his running mate and a person who got second place on primaries to be the next candidate, instead of starting the primaries 3 months before the election.
And that's technically true, but what to you think they should've done instead? Or are you doing it from the perspective of a pure internet argument? Like, "see, sometimes the candidate you chose gets sick therefore the democracy doesn't exist" type shit?
I think Biden should have kept his word and planned to be a 1 term president. Maybe if he had stuck to his stated plan, we would have had a different outcome. You know in opposition of covering up his health problems until it was too late?
I agree with that. I believe the plan was that he will be relatively alive for long enough to win an election and then step down later allowing Harris to actually fill the role. I understand the logic behind it, he's the "safe" candidate, incumbent always has an advantage, and they correctly identified the issue of running woman of colour as a democratic candidate, American voters are, for some reason, aren't as cool with that as they should be by now.
In the end I agree that they should've predicted his health problems earlier, but we know that on hindsight.