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Originally Posted by rubecube
I mean a lot of us knew that years ago, which is why we were screaming so loudly about not letting Biden run. Democrats showed how little they really cared about Trump's threat to democracy by lying and trying to shove Biden down people's throats.
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Biden wasn’t shoved down anyone’s throats. In 2020 he was trailing the nomination race until he won the South Carolina primary. He won the nomination because he was the only candidate to show traction with Black Democrats, not because some kind of institutional fix was in.
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South Carolina's first-in-the-South primary matters in the Democratic contest because it is the first event where African American voters — with whom Biden had residual appeal as Obama's vice president — carry outsize influence. As attention turned to the Palmetto State, its senior officeholder, James Clyburn, the highest ranking Black member of Congress as the House majority whip, announced his endorsement of Biden.
Clyburn's backing all but guaranteed Biden would carry the Black vote. But it did more than that — it created the first real groundswell of energy for his campaign in months. That weekend, Biden won the Black vote overwhelmingly, especially among women, fueling a blowout that saw his vote share and Sanders' reversed from the Nevada tally. In the biggest event of the year to date, Biden got nearly half the vote and Sanders a fifth. No other candidate got enough to earn a delegate.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/90264...tic-nomination
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