Aug 5, 2024Handing VP Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nomination without having her compete in primaries is a throwback to less democratic ways of picking nominees, a political scientist says.
Aug 9, 2024Politics Kamala Harris Is an Undemocratic Candidate. But She's Hardly America's First. Gerald Ford is a reminder of how far American democracy can bend without breaking.
In Biden's case, he won over 99% of the available Democratic delegates throughout the months-long primary contest. Had he continued on to the Democratic convention in Chicago starting on Aug. 19 ...
Aug 5, 2024In 1912, 42% of GOP national convention delegates were selected in primaries, as were 33% of Democratic delegates. In 1916, the figures were 59% for the GOP and 54% for the Democrats - a sign of ...
Jul 23, 2024If, as seems almost certain, Ms. Harris becomes the Democratic nominee, she will have been selected without a single primary vote cast for her or her running mate (unless she taps Minnesota Rep ...
Aug 16, 2024It's early days yet, but Kamala Harris, taking over for Biden as the official Democratic nominee for 2024, seems to take the need to defend American democracy more seriously. Highlighting the ...
Aug 8, 2024The 2024 election will be no different—because New Dems are Harris-Walz Dems. Congresswoman Annie Kuster of New Hampshire is the chair off the New Democrat Coalition. The views expressed in this ...
Oct 19, 2024In their two debate performances, the Harris-Walz ticket failed to make mention of Comstock, despite the fact that Vance actually asked the DOJ to enforce it in a January 2023 letter. This needs ...
It's rich that Donald Trump, who tried overturn the 2020 election, and his allies in the GOP are trying to portray Harris' ascendance as undemocratic. A consensus is not a coup or a conspiracy.
Biden dropped out only 29 days before the start of the DNC and 97 days before Election Day itself, not to mention early voting. There simply wasn't enough time to re-run the primary process.
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