Washington state has just joined Ohio and Alabama in signifying through elections officials that President Joe Biden could be left off their general election ballots.
They didn’t just do it for “their team”, they did it for Biden in 2020 too.
In 2020 the Democratic convention was before the Republican one. They couldn’t do it selectively. Doing it for their team had the side effect of helping the Democrats.
The campaign had no reason to believe that it was going to be an issue because it never has been before.
No one, especially not someone doing politics professionally, should be naïve enough to think that Republicans would not use every tool they were given to sabotage Democrats in this political environment.
We can’t just have people combing through all the election laws in every state in order to pick what date the DNC will be. That’s tens of thousands of laws, often laws that haven’t been used in decades or even laws from over a hundred years ago, the campaign has bigger fish to fry.
That’s literally what lawyers do. And this wasn’t a dead law unused for hundreds of years, they were explicitly passing temporary changes to it just last cycle. It should have been on the radar. You give every goddamned excuse for incompetence. This is the future of the country, and in some sense the world, on the line. “Oh there are too many laws to remember!” would never fly in business, and that’s just for money.
We should be focusing on actual important issues and how they should be handled. Issues like abortion, the Palestinian genocide, health care, and human rights for minorities just to name a couple. Those are the issues we need to be challenging the Fascists on because those issues will tip the election.
We should have a competent team managing elections, or else all that will be is just talk. People in professional Democratic politics just fuckup and fuckup and fuckup again and people like you make excuses for them. I want to win, and the flagship organization supporting that should be staffed by competent people checking everything three times over, and who understand that Republicans are their enemies, not reasonable public servants who will of course extend them a courtesy to help fix their scheduling problem.
In 2020 the Democratic convention was before the Republican one. They couldn’t do it selectively. Doing it for their team had the side effect of helping the Democrats.
No one, especially not someone doing politics professionally, should be naïve enough to think that Republicans would not use every tool they were given to sabotage Democrats in this political environment.
That’s literally what lawyers do. And this wasn’t a dead law unused for hundreds of years, they were explicitly passing temporary changes to it just last cycle. It should have been on the radar. You give every goddamned excuse for incompetence. This is the future of the country, and in some sense the world, on the line. “Oh there are too many laws to remember!” would never fly in business, and that’s just for money.
We should have a competent team managing elections, or else all that will be is just talk. People in professional Democratic politics just fuckup and fuckup and fuckup again and people like you make excuses for them. I want to win, and the flagship organization supporting that should be staffed by competent people checking everything three times over, and who understand that Republicans are their enemies, not reasonable public servants who will of course extend them a courtesy to help fix their scheduling problem.