The incumbent party still holds a primary, even though most don't participate because the incumbent president is usually unchallenged, or is the obvious nominee regardless. I don't recall anyone polling as high as RFK Jr in an incumbent primary, at least in recent history. If Biden was a popular president with an actual base, someone polling 15-20% wouldn't even be a threat, regardless of low voter participation. However, who would actually come out to vote for Biden in a primary deemed "unimportant". If RFK supporters showed up and voted, he would be guaranteed the nomination. Am I missing something here?? Why isn't this talked about?
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This hasn't happened on the Dem side since Jimmy Carter. That's why the Dems have things like superdelegates; so the people actually running the party can prevent any surprise candidates.
But even with the superdelegates they still have to cheat. Bernie Sanders would make an awful president, but I am very confident he would have won the Dem nomination in 2016 if it weren't for the cheating.
Hillary would've been smoked by Bernie if not for the election fraud.
It's not talked about, cause no one expects a fair election.
We need the part of the movie where dem voters show up in obvious number and vote for RFK and the RNC steals it and hands it to the Bidet. They need to experience the theft that MAGA voters got dealt. Then Trump may ask him to run as VP. That would solidify it.