• hark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to guess his opponents were milquetoast candidates that were largely fine with a bad status quo.

    • Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Something similar happened in my city. The incumbent mayor saw his challenger as not worth his time, he’s held the office for a long time now. He wouldn’t debate, wouldn’t mention their name, largely ignored any campaigning for the primaries.

      He ended up losing. A “far left” candidate won instead and then the same incumbent mayor spent the time until the election smearing the primary winner for being a socialist and had to start the most successful write in campaign I’ve certainly ever seen.

      The old mayor ended up winning despite his hubris and we all continued on like nothing happened. It was gross and weird and it’s left a bad taste in my mouth since it happened.