America’s political scribblers have been having a conniption for the past 24 hours because Democratic voters and donors rallied to Kamala Harris as soon as Biden announced his withdrawal from the race. The punditocracy, you see, wanted the candidate chosen at the party convention, the way their grandpappies did it, and they’re doing their damndest to find the handful of people who want the chaos to continue. Raw Story, for example, dug up an interview on Fox News where a “Democratic donor” says he wants his million dollars back because he wanted an open convention. Yeah, right. All the Democrats I know run to Fox News when they want to take their racism and sexism for a run around the block. We’ve got some of these same “people” – they’re bots for all I know – suddenly showing up here, at a blog they’ve never visited before, to claim they’re Democrats but they want someone other than Harris. The term for people who disrespect Black women, BTW, is misogynoir. Expect to hear a lot of it in the weeks to come.
The Associated Press put the lie to the bullshit by the simple expedient of doing some fucking reporting. They polled delegates to the Democratic convention, and Harris already has enough to secure the nomination. If Democratic voters are upset they sure picked a funny way of showing it: They donated a record amount of money in the 24 hours after Biden’s announcement. Any effort to derail her candidacy is an effort to elect Trump.
The bluster out of Republikkkans is poor cover for their fear and panic. Trump already is trying to weasel out of debating Harris because now there’s only one senile old man in the race, and it isn’t her. Wanna take bets on how quickly the media acts like babbling incoherence is no longer an issue?
The floor’s yours.