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Vice President Kamala Harris is fond of repeating is: “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
At 1:46 PM ET on a slow Sunday, Joe Biden, America’s 46th President, decided not to seek re-election. An agonizing 27 minutes later, Biden endorsed Harris as his choice for the Democratic nomination.
It was a remarkable moment in presidential history, very similar to what transpired in 1968. The 1968 Democratic Convention was also in Chicago, the site of the 2024 convention. The 1968 proceedings were marred by chaos and violence that played out on national television. Then, the many disputes over the party’s stance on the Vietnam War, civil rights, and other issues, led to a fractured party and a sense of disarray. The top vote-getters on the floor were Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Senator George McGovern. Humphrey faced Nixon in the general election and lost in an electoral landslide, winning only
light of the Biden decision, the first-round vote will likely happen as a mark of respect. But the second round vote will be a competitive affair unless Harris sews up her support before then. Former President Bill Clinton endorsed her, putting an end to rumors that Hillary Clinton would want to be in the top spot again. Still, curiously, former President Barack Obama or former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, from Harris’s Bay Area district, declined to endorse her. The latter two leaders orchestrated the coup that brought Biden down. A messy intra-party fight is on the cards.
Other strange protocol deviances occurred. Biden chose to release his announcement on X with a single-page letter signed on personal letterhead with the name Joseph R. Biden at the top. The events of the day were a party matter, of course, but Biden referred to focusing “solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” This phrase was to preempt calls for him to resign from the presidency. So, should the letter have been on White House stationery? At least, why not on DNC paper?
The Undemocratic Democratic Party. One thing is clear. The party that calls itself the “Democratic Party” and refers to democracy at every turn – even Biden couldn’t resist saying in his farewell post how “We’ve protected and preserved our democracy” – continued a nine-year streak of extraordinary activism doing everything undemocratic.
First, it was the Russia-Russia-Russia scandal started by Biden staffers such as Jake Sullivan, who worked on the Hillary Clinton campaign. When this proved to be a dud, it was the first Ukraine impeachment scandal started by Adam Schiff, one of the architects of Biden’s downfall this week. It turned out that Trump was right after all, given all the information in the Hunter Biden laptop that showed how corrupt Ukraine is and how the Biden family handsomely benefited.