biden fully intended to see his 2024 campaign through, but scared donors and the dnc forced him out after the debate. this was already news weeks before his shock dropout. harris, as vp and part of his ticket, was the only candidate who could smoothly navigate ballot and campaign fund access laws. they all thought it would work out because the mindless hype from liberals and the media in august and september was probably also a source of early data that blinded them to more accurate and unfavorable polling. they just couldn't believe she'd lose every battleground state because they were seeing the "next obama" that they wanted to see and figured something must've been wrong with the polls. it's hard to overstate how much of a clusterfuck this election was for the democrats. tons of bad decisions in the 11th hour off the back of spending an entire presidential term downplaying and ignoring the most important issues to voters.
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