Platner has no reason to fold; he holds an Ace high straight flush, dealt from a deck stacked in his favor.
The Progressive-Democratic Party has no mechanism for dumping him from the November ballot after he won the primary and so Party's nomination as fair and square as anything Party does.
His term for voluntarily quitting is he gets to name his successor, and his deadline is 13 Jul. Party will have to abjectly surrender to get Platner out, but at the cost of getting Platner Jr.
Party won't gain anything by surrendering, and if it doesn't, they'll at least get credit, such as it is, for not being even more feckless than it was in selecting Platner in the first place.
And they got Platner in the same way Party got AOC when she won her first primary: nobody cared enough to get out of the house and go vote for the other, while she, and he, did the work of getting their voters out.
Platner has no reason to fold; he holds an Ace high straight flush, dealt from a deck stacked in his favor.
ReplyDeleteThe Progressive-Democratic Party has no mechanism for dumping him from the November ballot after he won the primary and so Party's nomination as fair and square as anything Party does.
His term for voluntarily quitting is he gets to name his successor, and his deadline is 13 Jul. Party will have to abjectly surrender to get Platner out, but at the cost of getting Platner Jr.
Party won't gain anything by surrendering, and if it doesn't, they'll at least get credit, such as it is, for not being even more feckless than it was in selecting Platner in the first place.
And they got Platner in the same way Party got AOC when she won her first primary: nobody cared enough to get out of the house and go vote for the other, while she, and he, did the work of getting their voters out.
Eric Hines