the DNC has little power to influence elections, which is why they couldn& #39;t stop about ten gazillion peopel running for president, many of whom the DNC absolutely did not want to be running for president.
the DNC didn& #39;t really want Biden. Obama literally tried to stop him from running!
over the last 40 years there& #39;s been a huge movement to shift power from party actors to voters in primaries, and it& #39;s mostly been quite successful!
the donor class didn& #39;t really want Biden; he got embarrassingly outraised by Sanders and Warren. electeds were wishy washy; he got way fewer endorsements early on than you& #39;d expect from a former successful VP.
his strength was always in voter support, first in polls, then when people actually voted for him in large numbers.
this sucks in a lot of ways; I do not think he& #39;s a good person or likely to be a good president.
but a lot of voters disagree with me.
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