Norman Solomon here:
... Voter disenchantment: Losing 6.8 million voters who supported Joe Biden in 2020 proved pivotal in the close 2024 election. Harris’s inability to mobilize those pro-Biden voters was a massive failure.
Biden’s betrayal: Biden’s stubborn decision to seek re-election, and his refusal to step aside until very late in the process, robbed Democratic voters of open primaries and undermined Democrats’ chances. ...
Progressives did the betraying here, not Joe Biden.
No one in his right mind would expect Biden voters to turn out for somebody else, especially someone else put in at the last second of a campaign which was announced more than a year earlier. Biden did have primaries and won 14 million votes of confidence. And as I've said before, Harris was decisively but narrowly defeated.
Progressives should think about how many of those 6.8 million voters might have still showed up for Joe Biden in 2024 had they not thrown him out, even if he ultimately lost.
Some of those 6.8 million votes might have been the difference between a Republican U.S. House with a five seat majority and a Democrat one, and if the latter, the difference between passing Trump's Big Ugly Bill under reconciliation by just four votes, or it never seeing the light of day in the first place.
Democrats lost five seats in the U.S. House to Republicans in 2024 by 1.62 points or less, the difference between stopping President Trump in his tracks and the madness he is unleashing now, all because progressive elites like Solomon and his ilk betrayed Joe Biden and forced him out:
PA-8: 1.62%
PA-10: 1.26%
PA-7: 1.01%
CO-8: 0.73%
IA-1: 0.19%.
