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Open Convention or Harris 'Coronation'? Democrats Weigh Options After Biden Exit.
(www.commondreams.org)
"coronation" is USA a monarchy now?
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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If we had the time to rerun primaries in fifty states and ask the voters I would say we should do that, but since we don't and Harris is a successor all the voters could have forseen when casting ballots for Biden we should just go with her.
What I'm not looking forward to is having to hear the opinions of party insider convention delegates over the next few weeks. If they try to act like extra special voters and give the nomination to someone other than Harris that's going to be a slap in the face to voters and make any sense of party unity totally implode.
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Parroting bullshit labels like 'coronation' when describing the logical decision to promote the VP candidate is feeding into conservative propaganda, even when presented this way.
Especially when it was essentially a coronation for Trump this time. Pretty much no one thought DeSantis or Haley had a chance, and they came the closest. Trump knew it, which is why he didn't bother doing any of their debates. Which made them pointless debates.
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Biden endorsed Harris. The donors want Harris. Even AOC endorsed Harris. It's going to be Harris even if it's an "open convention."
Then let it be an open convention. The last time the DNC crowned someone we got Hillary and a bunch of young voters switched over to Trump.
We should have an open convention even if there's a likely outcome to foster unity.
If the delegates get to swoop in at the last to make someone nobody's ever heard of the nominee instead of Harris, that's going to be a coronation that totally disregards voters. Harris being the nominee is what would have happened anyway if Biden had to step down and the logical way to go here.
Harris is not my favorite person in the world, but I guarantee there's a chunk of convention delegates who want someone like a Manchin or a Bloomberg or a Clinton or someone else worse.
Yes, I'm sure there will be a lot of "unity" from people like yourself when it's Kamala Harris anyway.
There will be, yes.
I think she's a bad choice to beat Trump and the most important thing is to beat Trump. If she's the pick I'll back her - but I'm not going to support someone who I think will lose while there's still a choice.
Edit: Beautiful show of unity - downvoting someone saying they'll back the eventual candidate. This kind of head-in-sand bullshit is what loses us fucking elections and it was all over the place shouting down people with legitimate criticisms of Biden before he stepped down.
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Just to elaborate more, it is an open convention because the delegates are unbound, they could vote for anyone now that Biden has withdrawn. To get on the ballot, anyone just needs to get the signatures of 300 delegates saying they support them. If the vast majority of delegates publicly endorse Harris before the convention though, it's essentially already over. As this would indicate she would easily win the first ballot (and no, before anyone asks, super delegates cannot vote on the first ballot).
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