To the marginal Democratic primary candidates: Help defeat Trump by dropping out today
. This is not necessarily a function of the candidates or the party, though they could definitely have spent more time talking about climate change. It’s about the format—you can’t have ten people on a stage and expect things to go well.
Democratic leadership may not realize this, but the goal of this primary is to emerge with one battle-tested candidate who is prepared to defeatin the general election. That means voters have to get to know this candidate even before the general, and the candidate needs as many repetitions as possible under the national spotlight.
We do not live in that perfect world, and expecting the media or the DNC to do anything right is an exercise in futility. The current format is conducive to bad debates. The general election debates will also be terrible, because they will feature Trump. Our best chance for substance comes from smaller, focused Democratic primary debates. Which leads me to the marginal candidates.
Five people, right now, belong in the primary. Those five are Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Buttigieg. If Julian Castro gets a huge post-debate bump, fine, add him in there too—but with the goal of reducing things further after the next debate. Aside from those five or six, the rest of you are just wasting our time.
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