Presidential Election

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What has happened to the process of electing the president of the United States? There was a time not all that long ago when well known and established politicians announced that they were running for the office. They campaigned they debated they ran in primaries and eventually one of them came out on top, this used to be decided at the big convention. I get that Donald Trump was the presumptive nominee for the Republicans he is very popular. However for the life of me I do not get how Joe Biden was more or less handed the nomination. He was a poor candidate 40 years ago, again 4 years ago and yet again in 2024. There was a time in this country when the voters saw through the losers, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis were thoroughly trounced lucky to have carried their home states. Joe Biden should have done no better in 2020.

And now Joe has stepped down and a person who had absolutely no support in her bid for the presidency in 2020 has in the matter of less than week been anointed the democrat nominee. And furthermore it has been declared that she has the delegates to get the nomination. Who chose her? It certainly was not the people we know how well she did four years ago. She became the VP based on two qualifications, ethnicity and sex. In nearly four years she has done nothing to elevate herself to the level of leader of the free world. Who has been running the United States the past four years? Certainly not Joe Biden and if Harris is elected it won’t be her either.