The Democratic National Committee’s virtual roll call vote has closed, and the Democratic Party announced that Vice President Kamala Harris received the votes of 99% of the participating delegates.
In a statement late Monday, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and Minyon Moore, the Democratic National Convention committee chair, said that the roll call results would next be certified by the convention’s secretary, Jason Rae, formalizing Harris’ status as the Democratic nominee who will take on Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. It is important to have meaningful primaries. The Biden dropout kerfuffle is a direct result of skipping this for incumbents. On top of that, primaries are a great way for new voices to gain some name recognition.
If you look back at who people were talking about replacing Biden with, you can see that the majority were drawn from the 2020 primary. It’s vital to keep that process moving so we don’t have years where we have to replace a candidate in a panic at the last moment, and in the event that the unforeseeable happens, it is just as vital to have runners up to replace the candidate with. Having competitive primaries every election is something we should absolutely make a priority.
There’s literally no bigger platform to talk to Americans than presidential elections, and that includes primary.
Wasting it just makes zero sense. It’s hours and hours of free prime time TV and media coverage, for basically anything you want to talk about.
You could literally ignore every question these days and just do stump speeches.