On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris officially became the 2024 Democratic nominee for president after a sufficient number of Biden’s delegates cast their votes for his chosen replacement.
According to CBS News, while virtual voting didn’t end until Monday, August 5, Kamala secured the 2,350 delegates needed by Friday afternoon.
DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison hailed Kamala’s nomination as “historic,” which it is when you consider that no one in the Democratic primary voted for Kamala Harris.
Of course, Harrison’s idea of “historic” has nothing to do with the undemocratic way the alleged Democratic Party chose its nominee.
Instead, Harrison gushed over Kamala being the “first woman of color at the top of a major party ticket.”
Do you suppose Jamie Harrison notices that not one Democrat voted to put “the first woman of color” at the top of the ticket? You’d think that would take some of the shine off of this historic first.
Given the process the DNC deployed, you can understand why the Democrats jettisoned their “Republicans are a threat to democracy” talking point in exchange for “Republicans are weird.”
It’s tough to make the “We’re saving Democracy” argument stick when the woman of color at the top of your ticket did not run in the Democratic primary and voters — the glue that holds the democratic process together — had nothing to do with her selection.
In a “Breaking News” tweet Friday afternoon, the UK tabloid The Daily Mail (inadvertently) said the quiet part out loud, noting that Harris was “officially crowned as the Democratic nominee.”
The Daily Mail is British, so we can excuse the outlet for assuming that a nominee is “crowned,” but what’s the Democratic Party’s excuse?
In the United States, we hold primaries to choose our party’s nominee. Voters in each state, along with the District of Columbia and US territories, choose the candidate they prefer, and whoever wins the majority of delegates wins the nomination.
This is what the Democratic Party used to describe as “democracy.”
The name Kamala Harris did not appear on any ballot in the 2024 primary. Aside from the possible write-in vote by some random voter who didn’t like Joe Biden, nobody voted for her.
The whole process stinks to high heaven, don’t you think?
It’s one thing to replace your presumptive nominee because he dropped dead or was incapacitated in a bicycling accident on Rehoboth Beach. It’s another thing to shove the guy out the door because his polling was in the toilet and replace him with someone who didn’t run in the primary.
The Democratic Party’s hatred of Donald Trump gave them tunnel vision. In their quest to “save democracy” from the “existential threat to democracy,” the Democratic Party tossed aside the democratic process by eighty-sixing the guy Democrats voted for in favor of someone who didn’t run in the primary at all.
But that’s what happens when the thing you’re protecting isn’t “democracy” but “power.”
It doesn’t matter that Democrat voters approve of Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race. It doesn’t matter that Kamala is polling better than the guy Democrats voted for in the primaries. The Protectors of Democracy deliberately chose to undermine the democratic process to maintain their grip on power, and that should raise alarm bells for every American regardless of party.
If Kamala Harris wanted her bite at the Oval Office, she should have challenged Biden in the Democratic primary. It certainly would have made her nomination far more impressive.
As it is, the way Kamala became “the first woman of color” at the top of a major party ticket only confirms what many Republicans have said: She’s a diversity hire unable to get where she is on merit.
What the Democrats did in this election is just as undemocratic as Venezuela’s Maduro ignoring the will of the people and declaring himself the winner of last week’s election.
Joe Biden received nearly 14.5 million votes in the Democratic primaries.
Even Marianne Williamson got over 473,000 votes.
Kamala Harris received zero.
Is zero greater than 14.5 million in Democrat Party math? If it is, that could explain why the Democrats are so terrible with money.
At the same time, we should be grateful that the so-called Democratic Party single-handedly destroyed their “protecting democracy” talking point. It was always a lie.
Politicians who can easily scrap the democratic process when it suits them were never interested in protecting democracy. The only thing the Democrats are trying to protect is their power, and if they have to burn down every last remnant of the democratic process to do it, then by God, that’s what they’ll do.
Fortunately for them, the insufferable media that also spent the last four years clutching its pearls about our precious “democracy” will happily play along.
Instead of demanding that Vice President Harris answer questions about her involvement in covering up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, news outlets will gush about her mad skills in the kitchen and her kick-ass taste in music. They’ll cheer like pageant moms whenever Kamala’s speechwriters include a righteous zinger at Donald Trump in her campaign speeches while overlooking her refusal to do interviews.
Like the Democratic Party, the American news media only cares about defeating Donald Trump in November. It isn’t as if they haven’t already destroyed their reputations, so playing the role of Palace scribes will come easy for them.
On Friday, Washington Post reporter Matt Viser wrote a gushing review of Kamala’s rally in Atlanta featuring singer Megan Thee Stallion.
Yeah, really.
The article is so sickeningly cloying that the only possible explanation is that Matt Viser was born without the shame gene.
The only silver lining to this undemocratic hot mess is that voters will only have to endure the sycophantic media fangirling for three months. Could you imagine if this started last year? The entire country would be in a diabetic coma by now.
Then again, if Kamala Harris wins, the media’s “Yas Kweening” over President Harris will make their fangirling over Obama look tepid by comparison.
The Nobel Committee will probably try to award her two Peace Prizes.
But for the rest of America, the thrill of the “first woman of color” president will be short-lived. We’ll be far too distracted dealing with the fall-out from all of Kamala’s far-left policies to give a damn.
