She was picked by Biden to be on the ballot in 2020. She received zero votes in the 2020 primaries. She was elected to succeed him *if he died in office*. She wasn’t elected to succeed him after the end of his first term.
Harris is part of a ticket that received 89% of the votes in the primary. She was literally elected to be Biden's successor. I like Whitmer, too, but I really don't see anybody winning Democratic legitimacy by ousting the Black duly elected successor and replacing her with a white person.
If: 1. While not formalized until the convention, Harris, as his running mate, is de facto a recipient of his '24 primary vote, and
2. If white people ignore this, it's going to be difficult to convince the majority minority rank & file of the Dem party that it isn't a betrayal.
Then 3: We lose.
I’m not gonna get pulled back into this conversation, I just wanna say: Lauren, give it a rest!
You see the pushback you get to your idea here?
How nobody is rushing to your defense of this take?
Do you think it will be vastly more popular IRL?
Maybe this should tell you something!
