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Harris to be sole Democratic presidential candidate heading into official party vote
Associated Press ^ | July 30, 2024 | Robert Yoon

Posted on 07/30/2024 7:09:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Vice President Kamala Harris is the only White House hopeful who has qualified to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Democratic National Committee said in a statement on Tuesday.

Although no other major Democrat had indicated any plans to challenge Harris, the DNC’s announcement officially clears the path for the vice president to seek her party’s nomination uncontested, just nine days after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and created a vacancy at the top of the ticket.

Harris will now face a vote by the party’s national convention delegates, who will officially ratify the nominee in a new online voting procedure adopted by the party last week. Voting will begin Thursday and will conclude on August 5, the release said. Votes for anyone other than Harris will be tallied as “present.” According to an Associated Press survey, Harris was the overwhelming choice of convention delegates to replace Biden as the party’s standard-bearer and face Republican former President Donald Trump on the ballot in November.

Under party rules, a candidate qualifies to compete for the nomination by submitting a notarized declaration of candidacy, meeting legal requirements to be president and securing the electronic signatures of at least 300 delegates, with no more than 50 signatures from any one delegation counting toward the 300 minimum. The DNC announced that 3,923 delegates had petitioned to nominate Harris. …

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To: Olog-hai

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/07/29/judge-wont-remove-rfk-jr-from-november-ballot/

Three days left to block Kennedy via the NJ Secretary of State.


21 posted on 07/30/2024 7:43:42 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask Congress to send middle class property/income tax cap amendments to the states.)
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To: Billthedrill

Incredible isn’t it?

Joe Biden won the support of the vast majority of voters in the primaries, and thus had the most pledged delegates at this convention.

With joe’s withdrawal we had originally been told that all of those delegates were free agents and free to vote for anyone.

Now we’re told that there’s only one official candidate that they can vote for at the convention. And if any delegates have the audacity to vote for someone other than the one official candidate ,,their vote simply will not be counted.

The jokes write themselves, as far as how the Democratic party is hardly democratic in their own internal procedures.


22 posted on 07/30/2024 7:44:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (")
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To: Olog-hai

To be on the ballot in Maine:

https://www.wmtw.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-maine-presidential-ballot/61740308


23 posted on 07/30/2024 7:47:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask Congress to send middle class property/income tax cap amendments to the states.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Democrat Party”, there’s no such thing, and nothing “democratic” about that party.


24 posted on 07/30/2024 7:48:06 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought DT was the “danger to democracy”. They body-slammed it with this.


25 posted on 07/30/2024 7:51:55 PM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: Olog-hai

“He accuses the White House of orchestrating his deplatforming. He is suing the Biden administration and media outlets including The Associated Press, The Washington Post, the BBC and Reuters for alleged censorship.”

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign


26 posted on 07/30/2024 7:53:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask Congress to send middle class property/income tax cap amendments to the states.)
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To: Olog-hai

True dat!

If you’ve seen any of my other comments/posts, I have NO LOVE for the RINO Quislings in the Uniparty.

None, whatsoever. A POX on all their houses!


27 posted on 07/30/2024 8:06:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: End Times Sentinel
“Democrat Party”, there’s no such thing, and nothing “democratic” about that party.

The Democratic Party is democratic in the tradition of the German Democratic Republic, Democratic Cambodia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

28 posted on 07/30/2024 8:07:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Olog-hai

as disgusting as it is, we are witnessing the suicide of a major American political party

as Ineligible Harris is dragging down-ticket D candidates down with her

(which is why I still think that the DNC Puppetmeisters will, perhaps at the very last minute like at the convention, find new fresh faces that haven’t disgraced themselves with communist.nazi political “statements” ... maybe new people from the worlds of sports and entertainment.. or?)

those in charge of the DNC do not want to lose control over “our” federal government, there’s just too much money to be made running it for themselves


29 posted on 07/30/2024 8:18:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

President Trump proved he was an enemy of democracy by forcing the Democrats to act like Stalin.

:-)


30 posted on 07/30/2024 8:22:31 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

when he dropped out, Biden did not give other candidates
much time to raise the mucho campaign money needed.

Biden had $240 million in his war chest.........scattered
around to the DNC, PACs.....he himself had $95 million.

He gave Harris $91 million of that for her campaign.
That scared off a lot of wannabes.


31 posted on 07/30/2024 8:24:55 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Where’s Robert F Kennedy Jr? He’s a Democrat, right? Why doesn’t he get a shot? (Uh, no pun intended). Okay, maybe he wasn’t in the primaries. What about Dean Phillips? Democracy, my ass…


32 posted on 07/30/2024 8:26:18 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: faithhopecharity
as disgusting as it is, we are witnessing the suicide of a major American political party

Wrong. Kamala Harris will win the popular vote. The Electoral College will be close. It depends on who will win MI, PA and WI.

33 posted on 07/30/2024 8:30:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Olog-hai

DemonRATaly coronated without a vote by the subjects.


34 posted on 07/30/2024 8:55:27 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: MinorityRepublican

we disagree

but no matter because so long as the DNC’s ETM (election theft machine) is still firmly in place, she will “win” the key states

if the GOP does anything now it must get that D-ETM machine shut down

getting a true, honest vote in Obama’s “Transformed Amerika” has to be top priority


35 posted on 07/30/2024 9:49:03 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

If I was witnessing these same actions from a leading a political party that was in another country I would say that they were intentionally setting up the country to have no choice than to declare a civil war. The Democrats are utterly abandoning democratic processes in this election and have done so on many other issues like illegal immigration etc. Does the Deep State want to have a martial law declaration? Do they want to have the most extreme mass social violence the world has ever seen?


36 posted on 07/30/2024 10:10:34 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: faithhopecharity

All of this is happening for one reason only.

Because enough voters from one party have gotten pissed off enough over a period of many years to nominate a true political outsider in Trump.

And that threw the entire political establishment of both parties into disarray.

The fake wrestlers can’t compete with a real wrestler who actually represents the people. And has a following of voters who see him as a true representative, and not just someone they’re voting for because they think they’ll be a little less worse than the other guy.

The actual plan was to get the Trump voters to dump him for DeSantis. That didn’t work so they tried the indictments.

And it was only after they saw that the indictments were going nowhere that they knew they had to get rid of Biden.

Let’s not kid ourselves, both parties are still strong. They’ve got rat finks populating every political office in the land, from dog catcher to Senator.

Luckily, the presidential primaries are the one place where the combined weight of fed up voters from across the country can actually make an impact.

8 years later, we are continuing to see the rippling effects of that.


37 posted on 07/30/2024 10:59:08 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: The Fop

Hi

So where’s that primary challenge in the D party?


38 posted on 07/31/2024 1:49:24 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: fhayek

I thought I read elsewhere that Kennedy IS suing and/or making a stink over this.

Without the complicit Enemy Media giving him any airtime, it’s not happening. Right?

What a flippin’ MESS! I mean, don’t get me wrong; I WANT to see the Socialist Democrats eat their own, but seriously? Are ALL the Political Science Majors DEAD? If anything, I can’t believe Bernie is keeping his yap shut over this situation...though all of his ill-gotten gains were due to Socialist Democrats in the first place so, Meh!


39 posted on 07/31/2024 6:17:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Liz

Yeah, I get that, too. Doesn’t make it RIGHT! Doesn’t make it Constitutional.

But, whatevs, Right? Anything goes. The Republic be Damned!

*SPIT*


40 posted on 07/31/2024 6:20:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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