• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    That’s not what happened.

    Hong was a leading voice in the “uninstructed” vote in the primary, not the general. It was purely sending a message.

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      8 hours ago

      Apparently few people ever bother to read the article before firing off their uniformed opinion. This was during the primary. If Biden or the party had listened to this protest vote, we might not be in the disaster we’re in right now. What it did do was reveal how soft his support was among certain groups of voters, particularly progressives.