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At the end of the day the DNC does not change platforms based on monied interests, and individual voters decide the primary outcome.

Mark Cuban was literally telling voters to ignore what was in Harris platform said because he could assure them she wouldn't tax unrealized gains. If you really believe donors don't set the policy, that's adorable.

Biden beat Sanders by about 9 Million votes. It wasn't even fucking close.

Bernie was kicking the shit out of everyone. Pete Buttigieg was seen as the only centrist alternative, and he was losing. Then Biden won one state (South Carolina) and Obama personally called Buttigieg to get him to drop out and endorse Biden. Klobuchar did the same. Biden went into super Tuesday with no real centrist competitors while Sander and Warren split the progressive vote. In the clip I showed you earlier, Adam Smith literally says that the party coordinated around Biden because, "coming out of Nevada, Bernie Sanders is going to be the nominee." An Obama adviser even said Sanders was the only candidate Obama would speak out against:

Instead, he sees his role as providing guardrails to keep the process from getting too ugly and to unite the party when the nominee is clear. There is one potential exception: Back when Sanders seemed like more of a threat than he does now, Obama said privately that if Bernie were running away with the nomination, Obama would speak up to stop him.

So, yeah, he got 9 million more votes than him because the party carefully orchestrated their primaries to prop up Biden ahead of Super Tuesday. Then they changed the primary schedule so that South Carolina was the first state to vote in 2024 and made sure Biden had no real primary challengers. How'd that work out?