Democrats to Fast-Track Harris Nomination Process Ahead of Convention to Head Off Legal Challenges
“will hold a virtual roll call vote on the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees weeks ahead of its convention in Chicago”
Democrats are planning to nominate Harris and her yet-to-be-named running mate by roll call ahead of their national convention in order to avoid any legal challenges. The party of ‘our democracy’ strikes again.
Democrats are worried Republicans will try to block Harris from certain state ballots. You know, like Democrats tried to do with Trump.
FOX News reports:
Democrats to confirm nominees by virtual roll call weeks before DNC in Chicago to avoid legal challenges
The Democratic National Committee announced Wednesday it will hold a virtual roll call vote on the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees weeks ahead of its convention in Chicago next month to avoid potential legal challenges.
It was suggested Republicans could challenge the inclusion of the Democratic nominee on a number of state ballots due to their respective election laws should Democrats delay voting on a nominee until the convention after President Biden dropped out of the race.
But the likelihood of such challenges appears to be fading.
Candidates will now have until July 27 to declare their candidacies with the convention and until July 30 to show they’ve met the qualifications for nomination. The earliest delegates can begin voting electronically will be Aug. 1, assuming Vice President Harris is the only candidate to declare and meet the required qualifications and delegate support threshold.
Although unlikely, if more than one candidate declares and meets those requirements, a period of up to five days will be allowed for each candidate to make the case for nomination to the delegates before voting can begin.
Harris announced she’d locked up the nomination within 36 hours of Biden’s exit from the race, noting she’d won commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates.
“As a party, it’s our obligation to design and implement a fair nomination process for delegates to formally express their preferences through a vote to select an official presidential nominee of the Democratic Party who will go on to top the ballot in November,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement.
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison appeared on the Today show this week and promised the process of nominating Harris will be ‘fair and transparent.’
From FOX News:
“This process is going to be fair, transparent, open, but it’s going to be fast. And we have designed it to allow our nominees to really hit the measures and to hit the requirements that are necessary to be on the ballot in all 50 states. And in Ohio, in order to be on that ballot, you have to have not only a presidential nominee but also a vice presidential nominee. So it is going to be up to the eventual nominee to make that determination. But we have designed this process so that they have the sufficient time in order to select who that may be,” Harrison said.
See below:
DNC Chair @harrisonjaime says on TODAY that the Presidential and VP nominees will be settled before the convention, telling @craigmelvin that “If we’re going to be on all 50 ballots, we have to have all that done and locked up by August 7.” pic.twitter.com/KqNo7h4jaj
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 23, 2024
Right. Because everything about this has been so transparent so far.
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So let me get this straight. The Democrats are rushing to nominate as their candidate for president a woman who received exactly zero votes in the Democrat primaries, doing so electronically (it’s like totes safe & secure) ahead of their convention as to head off any potential challengers?
The fix is in folks. This is going to get interesting (and not in a good way).
I don’t think the Democrats care about that “We the people” phrase.
No, but they still have enough sway over idiot voters whose hatred for Republicans is boiling hot.
What I don’t understand is why blow up the process for her? She’s a dreadful candidate, arguably (perhaps inarguably) their weakest potential candidate. It feels like there something we’re just not seeing….which scares me.
It feels like there something we’re just not seeing….which scares me.
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she declines the nomination in favor of the mooch?
It’s called, “cheating” aka vy-mail ballots, ballot box stuffing, counting delays ..
If you do not expect to ever be using “the electoral process” ever again after you seize power by whatever means . . . why not blow up the process for her?
Subotai Bahadur
She owns al the campaign funds.
And it appears that she’ll secure the nomination even without naming a VP; that somehow she will qualify for all the State ballots with a ‘TBN’ in that slot.
And if anyone contests it the judges will repeat their 2016 runaway chicken-shirt disappearing act yelling “Lack of standing! Lack of standing! Lack of standing! La-la-la-la-la-lah!”
Well, who does have standing? The Trump campaign, probably. Who else? One thing is for sure, if someone without standing challenges something what the **** do you expect to happen?
And if no one has standing to challenge something, then yes, it can’t be challenged. That’s fundamental. How is it so hard to understand?
All the delegates r going to transported via a secure tunnel….
I can imagine all sorts of bad things about a tunnel.
Very secure. The tunnel is end-to-end
shreddedencrypted.Kamala Harris
half Jamaican, half Indian,
born of non-citizen parents,
spent her formative years in Canada.
But wowee
she’s on fast track to be the nominee.
AOC wants to know what Kamala’s third half is.
ask willie brown
Kamala became the presumptive nominee after the consumptive nominee bowed out.
I thought the delegates were obligated to vote for Biden in the first round of the convention. Biden would then have decline the nomination and release his delegates to vote for whoever they choose.
Your downvote over my comment is as flaccid as Joe Biden’s pecker. It serves no purpose.
And it will be “fair and transparent” as long as it’s Harris that’s nominated. If things go tits-up and someone dares to put their name in for the nomination then I figure the nomination process will be neither fair nor transparent. Guaranteed.
It’s all just as transparent as Joe Biden’s bathing suit, and for much the same reasons.
There is officially nothing the Democrats can now do to avoid their convention becoming a manure show.
Just the opposite. They’ve guaranteed the convention will be nothing but a perfectly staged production, a coronation of Harris. Under their current convention rules, a candidate has to be declared prior to the convention beginning with a certain number of delegates signed to commit to that candidate before the candidate’s name can be placed in nomination. Prior to their Kamalagasm, there might have been a half-dozen names placed in nomination. That’s not going to happen now.
There will only be one name placed in nomination: Harris’. Delegates can then either abstain or vote for her. It looks like she’s already received commitments from well more than enough delegates to put her over the top on the 1st ballot. They have apparently decided to go with their weakest candidate in order to protect the order and comity of their convention.
Democrats have finally attained the elegance of a classical Soviet election.
Manure would smell better.
And let’s not forget that they have to have the virtual roll call in order to meet the Ohio Ballot deadline
The Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, called the legislature back into session more than a month ago to specifically amend the statutory deadline. IOW, there is no Ohio deadline problem anymore.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ohio-lawmakers-hold-a-special-session-to-ensure-biden-is-on-the-2024-ballot
I stand corrected – I’ve been working on the road for a couple of months and must have missed that update.
Don’t feel bad. Media outlets, probably at the prompting of Democrats, continue to report this ‘deadline’ fallacy. For some reason, Democrat party bosses want people to believe that there’s some ominous deadline they have to circumvent. In reality, it just doesn’t exist.
They did amend it, but apparently the amendment doesn’t come into effect until September 1, and the Dems are worried that lawsuits may prevent it coming into effect at all, so they decided to play it safe and do the virtual roll call before the original deadline.
If I didn’t know any better I’d think the Democrats were engaged in subverting the Democratic process……but that can’t be possible can it???? I thought only the MAGA extremists did that stuff….
“It’s different when *we* do it.”
Next will be proxy voting. One person will cast all the votes and they will call it democracy.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is more “fair and transparent” than this clown show.
talk about a “screw you” to the bernie contingent, clyburn’s grift as well as rfk, et al–let alone any dem voters–guess what dems? we no longer need your input let alone your votes–thanks !
While we have certain cultural and societal expectations about how our political processes run; what was our Social Contract is on its last legs. The Democrats can use whatever secret internal means that they want, theoretically within the law but these are Leftists, to name their candidates. They can have their Politburo name the candidate and as long as said candidate goes through their official dog and pony show they are the candidate.
Subotai Bahadur
So basically the Dem Convention is just going to huge campaign ad where they can have parties, get smashed, and pat themselves on the back.
My thought exactly. There’s nothing for the convention to DO except be a gala social affair.
The problem was that the people who scheduled and booked the 2024 Democratic Convention did not pick a date ahead of the 50 state deadlines. A major reason was that the Democratic Convention did not want to be scheduled against the Olympics or the Republican Convention.
This was a problem even before President Biden stepped down. All followers of election laws expected the Democratic delegates to do a virtual online vote prior to the actual Chicago meeting.
The few appearances lately seem to show a “different” Kamala – didn’t see the usual donkey cackles like every other time she’s displayed her ignorance. Isn’t it odd that the DEMOcrats have to use some kind of DRUG Cocktail to get Joe to operate somewhat and then ANOTHER version to calm down their REPLACEMENT NITWIT?? SOMEONE on their side knows their drugs!!!
Hey, Lawyer type people. Could a primary voter or group of voters file a legal challenge against this move and force an open convention?