• stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    All that financial backing didn’t help her win. She would rather lose the election than lose a source of money.

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        3 days ago

        Would she? What part of the money she received made her pivot to the right more palatable to the average voter?

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          3 days ago

          It was never about the average voter, it was all about appealing to the people with the money.

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            2 days ago

            But would she have lost more votes from people with money than she wouldn’t have lost from the average voter had she not pivoted? Given that people with enough money to be called wealthy are the minority, I don’t believe so.

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          3 days ago

          Correct!

          She wasn’t a good candidate in 2020 and wasn’t better in 2024.

          She COULD have won if Biden had stepped down in 2022 and let her run as the incumbent president, or if Biden had decided not to run early enough to run a proper primary and she survived the primary process.

          Giving her only 100 days and blocking her from running down Biden doomed her candidacy.