4. Try to identify the best chance of driving forward progressive priorities at every decision point. This is CRITICAL. I supported dumping Biden because I was sure he was going to lose, and Trump is bad. I then opposed a mini-primary not because I like Harris, but because of what AOC said. 3/

She thought that a mini-primary was being pushed by Tim Ryan types and would result in some kind of idiotic Gottheimer/Romney ticket, and she knows more than I do, which meant that Harris, while bad on lots of stuff that’s important to me, was the best plausible outcome. 4/