Posted on 08/21/2024 1:12:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
44 delegates voted “present” during the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) symbolic roll call vote, according to a Daily Caller review.
The vote, a symbolic gesture after the Democrats officially nominated Harris as their candidate with a virtual roll call in early August, highlighted the party’s divide over the contentious Israel/Palestine issue.
Likely among the 44 present votes were the 30 delegate members of the “Uncommitted” protest movement. They say they “feel deeply hurt and betrayed by the President’s decisions to continue funding war crimes and the mass killing of Palestinians,” according to their website.
Some members of the Uncommitted movement represent officially uncommitted delegates, like Washington state’s Yaz Kader and Sabrene Odeh, according to The Seattle Times. Both voted present during the virtual roll call earlier in August in an effort to pressure Harris to support a ceasefire and an embargo on U.S. weapons to Israel, The Times reported.
“I entered my vote on behalf of a 10-year-old who was bombed and killed on her 10th birthday,” Odeh said, according to the outlet.
Kader and Odeh joined seven other delegates from Washington in voting present.
Twelve other states joined Washington in relaying present votes. Those states were Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and the home state of Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, Minnesota, a Daily Caller review found.
Minnesota led the charge with ten present votes, the most of any state.
The 44 symbolic present votes outranked the 37 delegates who were officially pledged to “Uncommitted” before President Joe Biden bowed out of the race.
Harris officially secured 4,567 of the 4,695 available delegates, NBC News reported. That number far outweighed the 1,967 delegates needed to secure the nomination.
Since Kamala will not hold a Press Conference, why not hire an impersonator to do a Press Conference? It would be fake but better than listening to a fake Convention full of lies and fake news reporting.
They should have voted for Biden.
not a single american voted for her.....
I think part of it is they want the MSM stenographers to submit the questions in advance and they refused...................
44 DNC Delegates Snub Harris, Vote ‘Present’
An Pelosi cast the other 4567 votes.
Yet they will claim 100 Million will vote for her in the election................
well, IneligibleHarris has to be one of the worst possible candidates for the DNC
there are several (equally objectionable in my humble opinion) Demo politicians with far less obvious “baggage” that they could’ve selected. And run with chances of attracting a lot more votes than Harris.
Whatever, though, whatever. The DNC didn’t call me for my advice or input. So, they have to suffer with their own decisions.
They don’t want to vote for Genocide Joe or Kill ‘em All Kamala.
She's already been coronated without ANY votes. My vote only prolongs the hypocrisy. Voting is obsolete and redundant.
Harris is lunatic left.
What term applies to people who are to the left of lunatic left?
“The DNC didn’t call me for my advice or input.”
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The DNC didn’t ask me, either.
I would’ve said “Big Mike”.
But s/he is infamous for saying s/he/it hates America
not sure America has degenerated or been undermined sufficiently for such an inapt declaration to attract many more votes?
Being voted for by the citizens is a threat to our democrazy.
SAYING???
SHE WROTE HER COLLEGE THESIS: TITLED: “WHY I HATE AMERICA”
Say, isn't Tiananmen Tim from... Oh, just skip it.
Libertarians.
Oh my!
“ Voting is obsolete and redundant.”
My Dad always said “Don’t vote. It only encourages them”.
I held my nose to vote for jorge busho, McLame, but couldn’t keep up the hypocrisy re romney. The hypocrisy is suffocating.
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