{"id":30876,"date":"2024-01-04T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30876"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:09:32","slug":"biden-democrats-vs-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/biden-democrats-vs-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Democrats vs. Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North Carolina party bosses join Florida in keeping Biden competitors off the ballot.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/james-freeman\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/B3-BG857_freema_AM_20180731103058.jpg\" alt=\"James Freeman\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/james-freeman\" target=\"_blank\">James Freeman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan. 3, 2024  (wsj.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-907847\/?width=700&amp;height=467\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.&nbsp;PHOTO:&nbsp;MICHAEL REYNOLDS\/BLOOMBERG NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Biden is going to extreme lengths this campaign season to protect the President from the judgment of Democratic voters. Last month this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nobody-said-getting-biden-re-nominated-would-be-pretty-b1fdf8d5?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">column noted&nbsp;<\/a>how his allies managed to cancel the Florida primary rather than expose him to competition from other Democrats. Now it appears that Biden loyalists have eliminated a competitive primary in North Carolina as well. Yes, the man who will spend the next week haranguing about threats to democracy seems to be doing an exceptional job of preventing it in his own party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Doran\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/story\/biden-won-t-face-any-competition-in-nc-s-2024-democratic-primary-state-election-officials-confirm\/21218264\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>\u00a0for Raleigh\u2019s WRAL-TV:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-democrats-vs-democracy-6e1d47fb\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-democrats-vs-democracy-6e1d47fb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina party bosses join Florida in keeping Biden competitors off the ballot. By\u00a0James Freeman Jan. 3, 2024 (wsj.com) President Joe Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.&nbsp;PHOTO:&nbsp;MICHAEL REYNOLDS\/BLOOMBERG NEWS Team Biden is going to extreme lengths this campaign season to protect the President from the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/biden-democrats-vs-democracy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30889,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876\/revisions\/30889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}