Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with NBC News that he will encourage progressive voters to still back Democrats on the ticket in November even if moderates are victorious in the primaries.
Only Florida and Delaware left the presidential race of their Democratic primary ballots. There were like 7 candidates for the presidential race on the ballot in Texas.
edit: adding links to the two cited Virginia primaries
Granted I would prefer to still have the vote so people can cast an empty or write-in ballot. But there wasn’t a blatantly nefarious plot to deprive the voters of a choice between declared candidates.
I’m sorry, let me correct my statement then. At no point did I have a vote in the selection of any of those democratic candidates, my rubber stamp vote for Biden did not select Kamala. There was no alternative for Spanberger, and my city just straight up cancelled their Dem primaries this year. There is a uncomfortably wide and long-running pattern of the field clearing for the party candidate before the question is put to the voters. But you got me on a technicality, I’m spouting misinformation
Well I did agree with you that they still should have the single candidate race on the ballot so you could have voiced an opinion. Other people could have run, but didn’t, and that’s on them for having chosen not to. As a far as Harris goes, they did open up the field for people to declare a candidacy to be voted for by the delegates to the convention, and several people did, and the pledged delegates did get their vote. It was a year of extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances. A measly 4% of the primary vote going to Uncommitted was enough to Garner massive media coverage, impacting public opinion, and pushing the donors to pressure the sitting president who was already the presumptive nominee to drop out. You can’t tell me that wasn’t a demonstration of the will of the people, starting with the primaries.
AOC and the rest of the squad got in thru their respective primaries, without party support. So did Mamdani. And Stayed and several others this year.
And I absolutely agree you about your city-wide primary being cancelled. Maybe you could consider joining the party to push for change.
Well that’s just plain disinformation bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Only Florida and Delaware left the presidential race of their Democratic primary ballots. There were like 7 candidates for the presidential race on the ballot in Texas.
edit: adding links to the two cited Virginia primaries
Virginia 2026 Democratic primary Senate race
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_Virginia,_2026_(August_4_Democratic_primary)
Virginia 2025 Democratic primary gubernatorial race only had one candidate running unopposed
https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,_2025_(June_17_Republican_primary)
Granted I would prefer to still have the vote so people can cast an empty or write-in ballot. But there wasn’t a blatantly nefarious plot to deprive the voters of a choice between declared candidates.
I’m sorry, let me correct my statement then. At no point did I have a vote in the selection of any of those democratic candidates, my rubber stamp vote for Biden did not select Kamala. There was no alternative for Spanberger, and my city just straight up cancelled their Dem primaries this year. There is a uncomfortably wide and long-running pattern of the field clearing for the party candidate before the question is put to the voters. But you got me on a technicality, I’m spouting misinformation
Well I did agree with you that they still should have the single candidate race on the ballot so you could have voiced an opinion. Other people could have run, but didn’t, and that’s on them for having chosen not to. As a far as Harris goes, they did open up the field for people to declare a candidacy to be voted for by the delegates to the convention, and several people did, and the pledged delegates did get their vote. It was a year of extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances. A measly 4% of the primary vote going to Uncommitted was enough to Garner massive media coverage, impacting public opinion, and pushing the donors to pressure the sitting president who was already the presumptive nominee to drop out. You can’t tell me that wasn’t a demonstration of the will of the people, starting with the primaries.
AOC and the rest of the squad got in thru their respective primaries, without party support. So did Mamdani. And Stayed and several others this year.
And I absolutely agree you about your city-wide primary being cancelled. Maybe you could consider joining the party to push for change.
Great roll call nomination, with only one candidate. Yet she didn’t get 100% of the votes - Some would rather abstain
Other people could have run, but didn’t. That’s on them.