Back in 2020 he was a supposed frontrunner struggling to look like one, fresh off a sluggish performance in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. He asked New Hampshire voters to help him flip the narrative and deliver him a comeback. He snarked back at critics, belittled a younger challenger and called one woman “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event.
Then he skipped his own campaign party, headed to South Carolina, and finished a distant fifth in New Hampshire’s primary, faring worse than the former mayor of a midsized Midwestern city.
Yeah, and who challenged Obama in the 2012 DNC primary? Spoiler: nobody. Because he was the incumbent and that gives you a massive advantage that nobody in their right mind would ever give up.
This is standard practice, stop acting like this is somehow unique or concerning in any way whatsoever.
That’s my point. I don’t even understand what you’re arguing about now. Are you trying to pretend you agreed with me the whole time?