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The media is doing that thing again! You know, trying to coronate a candidate instead of waiting for the convention.
Please, can we not wait at least a fucking week for the illusion of democracy?
This is not a coronation. This is replacing the injured quarterback with a couple minutes left on the clock.
A couple of minutes != four months.
Four months until the actual election, not four months before people have to start planning for it. The logistics of finalizing, printing, and distributing materials for a nationwide election isn't something that happens in a few weeks. It's a lot less than four months until decisions need to be final and things need to be moving forward.
Yeah, 4 months is somewhat longer, and a 4 year presidential term is not crowning a monarch.
There is no time for voting democracy itself is at stake!!
The only other person that has said they will run is Marianne Williamson which is not a serious option.
I saw some buzz about Joe Manchin stepping up to challenge Harris.
That would be... interesting? Also not a serious option but more interesting than Marianne Williamson.
He has stated he will not be running.
There is no time to fuck around unfortunately, they are making a smart move 100%. The Dems were pretty close to cannibalizing themselves over the Biden drop out thing. They need to quickly and coherently organize and unify. I'm saying all this and I'm not a big fan of Harris but I am pretty stoked to vote for her compared to my enthusiasm for voting 4 days ago.
1: Might actually get nonvoting women to go out and retake their abortion rights.
2: Deniable culpability for the Gaza Genocide.
3: Hasn't stated she'd veto universal healthcare (conditionally).
I didn't need much from a candidate, cop or not. Not Trump, not a confirmed fascist, let's fucking go.
I don't see how. The Democratic Party's delegates have committed to a candidate. They're reporting on it. They can't exactly be encouraging anyone to choose a candidate; they're saying that the commitment has already happened.
The convention is when it'll be official.
Ohio ballot deadline is in two weeks. There isn't time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-is-out-what-that-means-for-ohios-2024-ballot-saga/ar-BB1qnOGQ
Obviously a more decentralized process, like new primaries, would have been ideal, and Biden and DNC stood in the way of that, but right now we just need to delegate this decision to our elected leaders to make this decision now before it's too late to resist a Trump dictatorship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign_endorsements
I would love to see election reform in the future so this doesn't happen again, but this is our system, like it or not, and this is the best way forward.
Always read the article before you post it folks.
Did you read it? Literally the next sentence is this:
This is why the DN is voting on the candidate in the next two weeks, ahead of the convention -- because of legal shenanigans by Republicans in Ohio.
Well Ohio Repblicans were the ones who changed the law, they have a supermajority in OH state congress. I have a feeling going with a virtual roll call has more to do with keeping the DNC less newsworthy since it'll have a ton of protests over Palestine.
Well, you're welcome to have that opinion, but don't claim I didn't read the article, when I'm explaining that the DNC has set a 2 week deadline for choosing their candidate.
That's not what you originally said though. Deadline is September 1st in Ohio.
But the big thing is- no one else has thrown their hat in the ring.
People who don't want Harris can't face that uncomfortable fact.
Folks who don’t want her are being either disingenuous or unrealistic.
The delegates/DNC are responsible here, not the media. If they're all going to support Harris without any debate, the media can't be faulted for reporting it.
I agree with the sentiment though. Harris has a lot of problems on her record and couldn't even make it to Iowa in 2020. That she has enough connections to get picked as VP anyway doesn't mean she has to be the default nominee.
Reporting the numbers of delegates she’s secured the support of and noting the number it’s more than needed to secure the nomination is “coronating”?
There's not going to be a popular vote either way, so why wait? Harris is also the most obvious choice, especially since she seems to be the only one who actually wants to run.
How does refusing to acknowledge the successor to the 2024 primary winner as the party's nominee so pundits and convention delegates can push whoever they want at voters instead serve democracy?