The wider party is still fucked because it now has to roll the dice on a host of untested candidates, so it's dumb luck whether they can hit on one that's got the right stuff to challenge Trump and start their arguments from scratch.
With all primary dates already held (and some even canceled), and the DNC four weeks out, and three and a half months before the general election, I'd
love to hear how this primary season you seem to think will only just now kick off will happen. Especially since as Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris, the 87% of pledged "delegates" already awarded to him will default to her.
This was the Democratic party's way to place Harris on the ballot without vetting her through the primary process, which the DNC knows she wouldn't win, while preventing any sort of challenge from the party's left flank. She was a single-digit-polling also-ran, who dropped out even before the first primaries of 2020.
Pure, unadulterated, undemocratic ratfucking. And to think the Democratic party's slogan this year boils down to "we have to save democracy" (by voting for our handpicked candidate candidate no one voted for in primaries).
The impression that I get over American politics, is the Dems will vote for whatever democratic candidate is, the Republicans will vote for whatever Republican candidate there is, and the real battle is fought over the undecided voters...
Well, time for this "once every four years" lecture.
Undecided voters (colloquially called "the undecided 8%") no longer exist in the US, that's a fiction perpetuated by the media and political parties themselves to justify status quo electoral politics. So-called "swing" voters no longer determine election outcomes, in swing states or not, and haven't determined election outcomes for about twenty years. Country's too damn polarized for undecided voters to determine election outcomes, and that's a byproduct of campaigning by exclusively negative partisanship.
What there are, are
unmotivated voters. In other words, voters who decided which candidate they support, but haven't decided whether they're going to the polls in the first place -- or casting a vote for that candidate if they do go. That's why elections since 2008 have been turnout battles, and why predictive models working off expected turnout are far more accurate in predicting election outcomes than those working off "undecided" voter behavior.