• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    No, they didn’t hold a primary because they had the incumbent advantage. You don’t weaken your own incumbent candidate by running people against them in the primary. That’s basic electoral politics.

    Same reason they didn’t have a primary in 2012.