CV NEWS FEED // The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday stated that Vice President Kamala Harris has received the support of the requisite number of party delegates to officially become the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
“On Friday, the DNC confirmed that Harris had already crossed the delegate threshold, even as voting for the virtual roll call is open until Monday,” POLITICO reported. “The DNC opted for a virtual roll call, instead an in-person nomination in Chicago, to avoid potential Republican-led legal challenges to the party’s ballot access in Ohio.”
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison said during a Friday video call that he is “proud to confirm that [Harris] has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting” this coming Monday.
A chorus of critics denounced the DNC’s “installation” of Harris as “undemocratic,” calling attention to the fact that she was not a candidate during the party’s primaries when millions of registered Democrats voted.
President Joe Biden handily won the Democratic primaries over several lesser-known long-shot candidates. On July 21, Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris – who subsequently confirmed she was entering the race.
The Post Millennial Editor Libby Emmons wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “The party of ‘saving democracy’ literally installed a candidate without winning a single primary.”
“And there it is,” wrote another X user. “The Democratic Party, without a single vote from actual voters will select their nominee with a virtual roll call. The self proclaimed party of democracy huh?”
Author Jim Rickards wrote:
Did [Harris] run in any primaries in 2020 or 2024? No. Did she get one single vote from a real voter? No. Has the convention happened? No. Stop asking. Remember, Trump is the threat to “democracy.”
On July 23 – two days after Biden’s exit – CatholicVote reported that the “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (‘BLM’) slammed the Democratic Party for ‘anointing’” Harris.
“Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites,” BLM wrote on X that day.
“A 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of,” the far-left group’s post continued. “We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs.”
