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I think the plan was to hand it to Harris.
But then they realized she was almost as unpopular as Biden, so Biden wanted to hang on.
The alternative is Biden was always going to step down and he was just stalling till there wasn't time for it to be anyone else.
Primaries help Dems feel involved and increases turnout, being told someone the voter base is the candidate and we don't have a choice is how Republicans become presidents.
I've heard this argument before, but the primary that got us Biden was also a shit show where a candidate that was deeply unliked eventually became the nominee as other candidates strategically dropped out to make room for him.
I heard way fewer complaints about Kamala being selected to replace Biden than I ever heard about Biden being the nominee in 2020. Nobody felt like the primary had nominated the most popular candidate.
I also don't buy the conspiracy theory that Biden always planned on dropping out, and deliberately did so after a chance for a Primary had passed to hand the nomination to Harris by default. That just doesn't check out strategically. Biden is clearly in cognitive decline and they knew that he was basically unrunnable, but swapping out an incumbent is a risky move.
I wish we could do something like the Jungle primaries that some states have where all the parties run together and the top candidates advance to the general election regardless of party. That seems to put a damper on extremism.
Ideally though, I'd like to see us move away from the presidential system to a proportional parliamentary system, but that would take a constitutional amendment.