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Harris has been endorsed enthusiastically by the candidates who would be her challengers. She just needs to make a smart VP pick. It will set the tone for trusting her judgment.
I personally think Andy Beshear is the right choice. He can appeal to Republicans who care about decency and country over party. That’s enough votes to win the swing states.
A woman for the time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ms. Harris tapped former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who once oversaw Barack Obama’s vice-presidential vetting, to oversee her choice of a potential running mate, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Two of Ms. Harris’s top political advisers, Sheila Nix and Brian Fallon, joined the Monday morning call of senior staff members on the Biden-turned-Harris campaign — a sign of her team’s widening footprint inside the operation.
The next step in the party’s formal nomination of Ms. Harris will come on Wednesday, when the rules committee of the Democratic National Convention is scheduled to meet to set a date for a virtual roll-call vote of the state delegations.
Any momentum toward a competitive nominating contest appeared to melt away early Monday when a half-dozen Democratic governors quickly fell into line behind Ms. Harris — among them Andy Beshear of Kentucky, JB Pritzker of Illinois, Wes Moore of Maryland and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
Democrats were delighted by the jolt of energy, with donors flocking to give after Mr. Biden’s exit: The Harris campaign announced on Monday that it had raised $81 million in her first 24 hours, a record sum, from 888,000 unique contributors.
Tim Walz of Minnesota was due for a round of cable TV interviews on Monday night and Tuesday morning, during which he planned to explain the party’s nominating process and promote his own political biography.
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Does nobody else see the problem with “donors flocking”?
Yet again, oligarchs and the absurdly wealthy are buying influence, and it gets ignored
maniii@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right now, any candidate that gets people motivated enough to get to the polls and not “pokemon Go to the polls” has to be good enough to keep Drumpf out of the oval office.
Its sad to see the “bots” and “farms” existing on both sides. Propaganda is good for one thing, brainwashing and disenfranchising the masses.
DNC and democracy are always for sale and this time around is no different in that.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yesh, well as true as that is, maybe it’s time we stop accepting the status quo. The more of this shit I see, the more militant I start thinking.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right. Also, does nobody see the problem with the fact that delegates are pledging without any sort of vote from the people? The oligarchs have chosen two whole people out of 330 million, and told us that it’s democracy when we get to pick one of them, and one of them has sworn to destroy the country. This is not a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I agree with you in part. But I’m sure common folks are also a good portion of the donors.
Actually, let’s find out…
Ok. This is from 2020, so I’m not sure how good it reflects 2024:
www.opensecrets.org/…/demographics?id=N00036915
It says that women were the majority donating, and the biggest group donated between $1,000 and $3,000 - still a lot of money for many common folk, but that’s far from the “oligarchs” that you guys are talking about.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s how it is in US politics. There’s only a choice between the insane horror clown and the corporate stooge. Shitty choice but an easy one nonetheless.
aleph@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It doesn’t get ignored; it’s one of the most common criticisms of US politics.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I meant more on this level than the world stage.
Plenty of posts about the candidacy change, but very few issues taken with the fact that there were huge donors pledging to not donate without a change in candidate, and woopsie-doodle, now you’ve got money flowing again.