Thanks for backstabbing the glass sealing, Brazile and Warren. You two have discredit the work of someone who's been one of the most fervont feminist, who's career you would not have had she not stand by your side. The troubling comments have made you people the enemy of the Resistance movement. If you ever think about running in 2020 Liz, remember the black women who have stood behind Hillary's back through the all the smear campaigns from the left and right.
I'm finished with this Berniebro crap.
Never mind the Berniebro crap. What about Biden?
Why didn't Joe Biden run in 2016? He was the Vice President, the guy who would ALWAYS be in the mix to replace a sitting President. (And, yes, if Cheney didn't have one foot in the grave before his heart transplant, he'd have been a candidate in 2008.) Did Joe Biden take a look at who had "purchased" the Democratic Party and read the tea leaves?
Think of other Democrats that would have been viable candidates in 2016 besides Hillary Clinton. Besides Biden, there was Deval Patrick, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Claire McCaskill, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Cuomo, Steve Beshear, Joe Manchin; all of these folks were capable of entering the Presidential race and mounting viable campaigns had a void arisen. That's what tends to happen when there is an open Presidential race. That didn't happen; the only real opposition to Hillary was from someone who wasn't even a Democrat (Sanders).
Why the cleared decks? It's simple; the folks that could have offered a challenge to "the owners" (most notably Biden) were vested in the Democratic Party and kept their mouths shut about "the arrangement". In doing so, they arranged the kind of coronation of a nominee that hadn't happened since Richard Nixon in 1960. The Clintons BOUGHT the nomination; that's the reality of this. Donna Brazile, who is a sleazeball opportunist, nevertheless did a public service by bringing this out into the open.
I well may have switched my party registration to Democrat and voted for Biden if he had run. And I likely would have, with a number of reservations, supported Biden over Trump in the general election. I suppose that there were a number of folks like me in those counties that switched WI, MI, and PA that MIGHT have voted for Biden. The Democratic Party became a Clinton Family Enterprise, moreso than the GOP was ever a Bush Family Enterprise. In the words of Casey Stengel: "Who woulda thunk it?".