Whitmer, Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Beshear, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Cory Booker. Even former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick told CNN he’d “seriously” consider jumping in if the race were to open. If those names sound familiar, it’s the list of every Wall Street approved hack who couldn’t poll above lint in the 2020 cycle despite hurricanes of adoring free media at their backs. The ingenious “mini-primary” idea therefore boils down to clearing decks so the same clutch of decomposing aristocrats who put Biden in office in the first place can roll out the same slate of interchangeably unelectable neoliberal fuckwits Democratic voters rejected in 2020 in favor of a clear dementia sufferer, a list that conspicuously includes the current Vice President.