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Not enough time. Even before Harris was the candidate, she was pretty much treated like the de facto nominee immediately after Biden left. It would’ve just muddied the waters even more to go from Biden to Harris but then to another candidate after a quick primary.
It doesn’t hurt the fact that she got a massive boost in polling right after Biden dropped out and endorsed her. There wasn’t much reason to think that anyone else would poll better than her.
aion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was, but the tradition is that an incumbent president seeking reelection rarely gets challenged during the primary. Joe Biden was the only serious candidate during the Democratic primary. When he withdrew from the race after the primary, and only a few weeks before the DNC, where the nomination would be made official, there wasn’t time to organize a second primary. It takes time to generate a list of candidates, get those to each of the states, have the states print ballots and organize a special election. The DNC was forced to pick a new candidate without going through another primary.