• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “The decision-makers are two people — it’s the president and his wife,” one of the sources familiar with the discussions said, adding: “Anyone who doesn’t understand how deeply personal and familial this decision will be isn’t knowledgeable about the situation.”

    The DNC keeps saying it up to Biden…

    Which is the exact opposite of what their lawyers have spent the last decade saying

    We could have—and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That’s not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right

    https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dnc-lawyer-reportedly-said-they-could-have-chosen-between-clinton-sanders-over-cigars-in-back-rooms/

    The DNC can say Biden isn’t the best shot at beating trump, so they’re not going with Biden.

    They just don’t want to.

    They only want to pull the party right, never left.

    Even if that means republicans win.

    But this isnt just a “deeply personal and familial decision” it’s the fucking future of our country and it’s more important than Joe Biden

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Biden is already the incumbent, and the DNC has spent a huge amount of resources supporting him.

      Of course they have to defer to him because he can just run. We’re in a very different position than before the primaries.