I think a lot about how the inevitability of former vice presidents winning presidential primaries, combined with the incompetence with which both pre-VP Biden and Harris ran in primaries before being selected, effectively indicates presidential primaries are non-democratic
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Biden being a man is also a huge factor here. A lot of voters are far more comfortable voting for him because of his gender.
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There's a chicken and egg thing here about how Biden was Obama's VP pick in the first place precisely because he fit this reassuring image of a "normal old white guy politician" And if Hillary had been VP that might not have helped her the same way it's helped him
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