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.