Their idea goes something like this, according to a memo shared with Semafor that has been circulated to Democratic donors and bundlers as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration:
- Biden would step down as the Democratic nominee in mid-July, and announce the new system, with backing from Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Potential candidates would have a few days to throw their respective hats in the ring. The Democratic Party then would begin a primary sprint in which the six candidates who receive the most votes from delegates pledge to run positive-only campaigns in the month leading up to the convention.
- The “blitz primary” would involve weekly forums with each candidate moderated by cultural icons (Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Taylor Swift are among the names floated in the memo) in order to engage voters.
- The nominee would ultimately be chosen by the delegates using ranked choice voting before the start of the Chicago convention on Aug. 19.
- It would be announced with plenty of fanfare on the third day of the gathering. The memo imagines the nominee unveiled on stage with Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
According to its authors, the country would be captivated. Donations would pour in. And Biden would be celebrated as a “modern-day George Washington,” the proponents argue.----
It’s funny how all of those “both sides” and “genocide joe” users that canvas lemmy with bad faith arguments are suddenly silent, now that Dems are scrambling to find a viable candidate.
It’s almost like their goal was never to find an alternate to Trump and Biden, but to specifically make Biden lose so that Trump would win. And now that it’s happening, they’re sitting back and watching the Dems implode.
Funny, that.
if their goal was to find an alternate to trump and biden, what do you think they’d be doing now? my guess is they’d be waiting to see if they can actually get behind whatever the dems do next.
That’s a rather optimistic guess.
Mine is that there is no viable candidate that would ever get their vote, and they’re just going to dump on whoever the next pick is (if Biden drops out) and continue specifically disenfranchising dem voters.
no one is disenfranchising dem voters at all
Oh fuck off. Polling shows how unpopular of a candidate Biden is just like Hillary was in 2016. How did that turn out? This isn’t some Lemmy conspiracy to tarnish the name of Joe Biden.
The people disenfranchising Dem voters are the leaders of the Democratic party. They’re more concerned with fondling each other’s balls than winning elections and defeating Trump.