Dems' rig this years primary for Biden

 Washington Post:

In retrospect, it’s remarkable that an 81-year-old president with lousy job approval ratings, and who many expected would serve only one term, ended up being challenged only by a self-help author, Marianne Williamson, and a little-known Democratic representative from Minnesota, Dean Phillips. (That’s the guy who apparently couldn’t get anyone to come to a recent event in Manchester, N.H. Holding an outdoor event in 22-degree weather is always a tough sell, Congressman.)

One of the most quietly consequential political decisions of 2023 was the Democratic National Committee’s shuffling of the party’s presidential primary schedule, moving South Carolina to first, Nevada to second and Michigan to third.

Yes, New Hampshire insists that it’s holding the first Democratic primary on Tuesday, but the DNC calls the primary “meaningless” and says it won’t allocate any delegates based on the results. Iowa, the traditional first contest, got pushed back to Super Tuesday, March 5 — partially as punishment for the state party’s inability to count the votes quickly in 2020, and partially because Democrats deemed it an insufficiently diverse state.

Pretend you’re some popular Democratic governor with presidential ambitions and many years until you reach age 80. If you chose to run a primary challenge against Biden this cycle, your first effort would be to attempt to beat Biden in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, one of his strongest states, and where he finished almost 30 percentage points ahead of Bernie Sanders in the last cycle.
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What makes this all the more remarkable is what a lousy job Biden has done as president.  He started his administration with a reckless spending package to fight COVID-19 which led to the highest inflation in about 40 years.  His decision to bug out of Afghanistan led to wars in Europe and the Middle East which he supported with billions of dollars.  He has been responsible for some of the highest deficits in US history.  

Trump was a much more effective president and Biden and the Democrats have decided that the best way to beat him is to indict him rather than run on the issues.  

For the sake of the country, voters should dump Biden and the Democrats who support him.

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