When the 2016 election cycle was first starting, I said that if Joe Biden ran, he'd be the nominee and he'd win – and that Biden's most likely running mate would be Kamala Harris. Based on all the evidence at the time, it felt like the most logical and likely outcome. And it was.
I'm not Nostradamus. I just look at evidence, as opposed to groupthink and hype. The numbers made clear from day one that Biden was the overwhelming frontrunner. And if you asked yourself who else in the primary field Biden would most logically end up picking, it was Kamala.
Even when Biden badly lost Iowa and New Hampshire, the numbers and evidence still made very clear that he would win South Carolina and Super Tuesday. His frontrunner status was never in doubt. Any hype to the contrary at the time was a misunderstanding of the evidence.
My point: y'all have to learn to tune out the pundits when they start trying to get attention by hyping underdogs and unlikely outcomes as if they were likely outcomes. Biden was always the frontrunner. Not one minute in 2015 or 2016 when he wasn't the frontrunner.
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