Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are in an uproar about Vice President Kamala Harris’s looming nomination by the Democratic Party despite the historic nature of her candidacy. Harris, who will be the first Black woman nominated for president by a major party, is facing heat from BLM activists who on Wednesday accused “party bosses” of “installing” the vice president without following the democratic process. Instead, they add, “DNC elites and billionaires” want to avoid the hassle of a contested convention.
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“While Joe Biden wasn’t our preferred candidate, we cannot ignore the troubling actions of the Democratic Party,” the organization wrote in a statement. “The DNC refused to host debates during the primary, even though a vast majority of Democratic voters wanted them. This would have likely allowed America to see the decline of Joe Biden in 2023. The DNC changed the primary schedule and created rules that made it almost impossible for non-Biden candidates to appear on the ballot, effectively clearing the field of any challengers to the incumbent president. Following the primary where millions of Black voters weighed in, after one poor debate performance, the DNC Party elites and billionaire donors bullied Joe Biden out of the race.”
They go on: “Now, Democratic Party elites and billionaire donors are attempting to manipulate Black voters by anointing Kamala Harris and an unknown vice president as the new Democratic ticket without a primary vote by the public. This blatant disregard for democratic principles is unacceptable.”
Timeline of Events
Sunday
•Joe Biden drops out.
•Kamala Harris announces campaign with Biden endorsement.
•Kamala Harris says she is going to work hard to earn the nomination.
•Kamala Harris makes calls to party delegates.Monday
•Kamala Harris continues making calls to… pic.twitter.com/ZxzyxegZin— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) July 23, 2024
The Post Millennial reported that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) previously disputed BLM’s characterization, telling reporters that Harris was not chosen in a “top-down” fashion, saying “she earned the nomination from the grassroots.” But perhaps the most damning accusation by BLM is that Democrats are guilty of undermining the democracy they cheered when impeaching former President Donald Trump. “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,” the statement adds.
Allies of President Trump were quick to note following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not seek a second term that Democrats are dismissing the will of tens of millions of party faithful who lined up to vote in Democratic primaries only to see their nominee changed approximately 100 days before Election Day. “They stole the race from Biden after he won it in the primaries — A First!” Trump himself posted on Truth Social. “These people are the real THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) echoed that accusation. “Having invalidated the votes of more than 14 million Americans who selected Joe Biden to be the Democrat nominee for president, the self-proclaimed ‘party of democracy,’ has proven exactly the opposite,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement following Biden’s withdrawal, adding Democrats were “trying to upend the expressed will” of primary voters.
The first poll conducted entirely since Biden’s dropout shows President Trump leading Harris by two points nationally and even larger margins in a host of swing states. On Wednesday, Harris advisor Jennifer O’Malley Dillon released a memo to Politico outlining the path her team sees to victory. “About 7% of voters remain undecided in this race, and these voters are disproportionately Black, Latino, and under 30. They are more likely to have supported the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, and are two times more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.”As for the map: “We continue to focus on the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, where the Vice President’s advantages with young voters, Black voters, and Latino voters will be important to our multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes.”
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