US Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-7th) and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren pretty immediately endorsed Kamala Harris for president today:
Pressley tweeted:
Thank you for your dedicated service President Joe Biden.
And Kamala Harris, I’m all in, let’s go.
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed Harris as well:
She is a proven fighter who has been a national leader in safeguarding consumers and protecting access to abortion. As a former prosecutor, she can press a forceful case against allowing Donald Trump to regain the White House. We have many talented people in our party, but Vice President Harris is the person who was chosen by the voters to succeed Joe Biden if needed. She can unite our party, take on Donald Trump, and win in November.
US Sen. Ed Markey agreed:
Kamala Harris is battle-tested and ready to serve. She will galvanize voters and make history on Election Day. All in for Kamala.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-4th) is ridin' with Harris as well.
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"Vice President Harris is the
By anon
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 7:39pm
"Vice President Harris is the person who was chosen by the voters to succeed Joe Biden if needed."
No she wasn't. Unlike Gubernatorial races in Massachusetts where the Lt. Gov is elected by the voters, voters in the U.S. do not get to elect VP candidates.
I mean, technically
By Waquiot
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 8:48pm
If you voted for the electors for Biden for President, you voted for the electors for Harris as Vice President.
That said, I’m hoping for an open nomination process. Whitmer 2024!
$$$$
By tblade
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 10:09pm
Can the Biden/Harris campaign transfer its cash on hand to Whitmer or whoever emerges from an open nominating convention? Will Biden/Harris transfer all their campaign cash to the new nominee? The answer better be an ironclad yes to both before opening up the process. 105 days is not enough time to start fundraising from scratch. And if I were the forced-out VP—after four years of service and a hard year on the campaign/fundraising trail—there is no way in hell I would give up my campaign money because I would be saving it for the 2028 Dem primary.
Harris has raised $30 million today since Joe announced his withdrawal. $30M. The small donors are with Harris. Any "Draft Whitmer" (or any similar campaign) can't approach those numbers.
Harris already has the field offices. Harris was a part of the Biden/Harris administration and has a legitimate claim to its accomplishments. Blue state governors do not have such claims. Even if the hypothetical Whitmer campaign retains all present Biden-Harris field offices and there's minimal staff turnover (Would this even be allowed by the FEC? Are Biden staffers cool with both their POTUS and VPOTUS candidates being forced out? Again, the answer better be an ironclad yes), a brand-new messaging strategy would need to be built from scratch; new logos, signs, merch need printing; and all campaign workers would need retraining—which would cost a boat load of money.
The Dems held a primary. Joe Biden defeated Dean Phillips. VP Harris is the inevitable POTUS nominee for a number of pragmatic and structural reasons.
(Not an anti-Whitmer post; she's great!)
short answer
By anon
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 6:28am
Transfer to another candidate? No. Use to benefit another candidate? Of course.
"Money" is the 2nd stupidest reason to go with the flow in choosing the next President. The stupidest reason for choosing the next President is blatant racism and sexism, which is inarguably how Harris slid into this position in the first place.
Best to follow a somewhat Democratic process, hold a debate before the Convention, and allow delegates to choose the best candidate.
Clown comment
By tblade
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:15am
STFU.
I mean
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:24am
Biden *did* straight up say his running mate would be a woman. He didn't pick the best person, he picked the best woman.
I won't charge him with racism and sexism in doing so, but it's indisputable that he disqualified all male candidates off the bat.
We're on the same page
By tblade
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:38am
Harris did not win her current position because of racism or sexism.
Biden chose Harris to pick up
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 4:35pm
Biden chose Harris to pick up votes where he was soft. Who knows if Biden thought Harris was capable of replace him as President in extremis as Biden’s frequent and recently extravagant arrogance and narcissism may indicate that he thought it would never possibly come to that. If her core belief is only to get ahead then we’re in for muddled Presidency that lauds solipsism and America-bashing and that she will cash in on afterward as is the norm from the our caliber of Presidents we elect. Hopefully, if she wins the “open convention” she goes on to win in Nov and the unicorn goes off to pasture (after whatever is in store) and that Orangfinger is a one and done.
Well
By lbb
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 11:47am
That certainly was quite the externalized internal monologue unsupported by facts.
My days of not taking you seriously...
By HenryAlan 2.0
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 10:58am
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Your argument is premised on the idea that it's not possible to find a woman who is as well qualified as a man. That's a hardly credible position to take considering there are 100 million women in the US who are over 35. Setting that aside, VP picks are almost always based on political calculation. Nobody uses your argument regarding the dozens of white men who've been picked. But not to worry, Harris will no doubt select the whitest, straightest man in America as her running mate.
Kudos
By lbb
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 11:48am
I am stealing this. Also, nailed it.
I can't take credit for the line
By HenryAlan 2.0
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 10:16am
It comes from the Firefly TV show, spoken by Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), who is an icon of sorts to a lot of libertarian minded folks like Will. I thought he might appreciate my use of it in his regard.
Is Harris going to be an LBJ,
By Frelmont
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 8:43pm
Is Harris going to be an LBJ, a Truman, a Wilson maybe? Is she an Agnew, a Gerry, a Marshall or a Quayle?
My point is she needs to lead. She needs to be a leader and and the Harris the press is showing us in unimpressive. I’m not impressed by “GOT HYPE?” I will be Kamala Harris’s biggest cheerleader if she does something more that lecture and nod her head.
What IS your deal?
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:17am
Did you even watch the speech she gave? She's a brilliant public speaker.
I'm trying to figure out what flavor of troll you are and failing.
A Trumpie dipshit who is
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:39am
comically bad at pretending to be a Democrat.
Whitmer
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:34am
Didn't she already state she is NOT going to run against VP Harris?
Whitmer already announced she isn’t running
By Jiggles
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 10:33pm
It’s going to be Harris.
no, would be chaos causing division
By deselby
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:14am
no open process or dumping Harris.
Expectations on Harris are low, but she will greatly outperform expectations with the right message, staff and running mate.
If she panders to the identity politicians she will lose. Can't repeat the mistakes of "Hillary!"
She, and everybody supporting the campaign should not rest on a "first woman president" mantra.
TINA
if she panders to the identity politicians
By J.R. Dobbs
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 8:12am
What were you trying to say?
Harris / Whitmer 2024
By J.R. Dobbs
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 8:10am
Stop hoping for chaos that will be eagerly exploited by every media outlet from here to Bangalor.
Team Blue No Matter Who
We need to put MAGA to bed THEN we can sort through the ash and rubble.
Trump losing an election
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:56am
Won't put MAGA to bed.
Only his electorate dying will do that.
No, but it will keep them out of power for a bit longer
By necturus
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:42pm
The Democrats are in the position of defending Constantinople against the Turks. They have to win every battle they fight. If they lose one, it's game over.
The last eastern Roman emperor, Constantine XI, watching the Turks flooding into the city, supposedly said "the city has fallen and I am still alive!" before grabbing a sword and rushing into battle. He was never seen or heard from again, nor was his body ever found.
Ha
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:58am
No.
Whitmer isn't running. She gets it.
Don't make the same mistake twice
By BostonDog
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 7:40pm
Listen to Obama and have an open process for choosing the nominee. It might be Harris but whoever gets the nod will have a lot more public support if it's perceived they had to campaign instead of just being handed the nomination, even if it's only DNC delegates that get to vote.
Endorsing today accomplishes nothing.
It is an open primary
By WalkingTheDog
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:39am
With Biden out of the race, all of his delegates are free to vote for whomever they want. They do not need to be "released" and Biden cannot direct them to vote for a specific candidate.* Many of the other potential presidential contenders are supporting Harris and announcing that they will not seek the nomination. The seems to be a call for unity - united we stand, divided we fall.
* In the Democratic party, delegates are not bound to their candidate to begin with. They're instructed to vote “in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.” That said, the candidates choose their delegates for their loyalty.
Here's a link to the info above. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/-de...
Hence the wasted opportunity
By BostonDog
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:51am
Every Democrat should be saying, "Harris is great and she'd make a great President but I'm going to wait and see who else is interested before endorsing."
Then wait a week or two and endorse the person leading in the polls provided they don't seem like a liability for other reasons.
It probably will still be Harris but at least it makes it seem less like a rigged system.
Sadly, that's not happening and it's too late at this point.
What is "rigged" here?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 5:38pm
Ironically, the Democratic Party is not a democracy. It is not a government entity. It is a private institution.
Like corporations, many of the founders hated the idea of having political parties at all. They are enshrined in our system, but they are not the official system. There is no provision in the constitution for them. They make their own rules.
Easy to forget that the GOP and the Democratic Party aren't constrained by any laws to hold a plebiscite to change endorsed candidates.
VP Pick
By Irma la Douce
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 7:51pm
Among the names floated as a possible VP pick, one of the news pundits this afternoon suggested former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
Wrong Person of Irish Descent
By John Costello
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 9:14pm
Mark Kelly will be floated and would make a terrific candidate.
Gulf war pilot, space shuttle astronaut, gun safety advocate. Spoke live to Glastonbury from space. All in.
Okay...
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:02am
I get the shiny, but where are the actual qualifications in that ad?
Sadly, where we are now, it’s
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:18am
Sadly, where we are now, it’s not about qualifications for the job, it’s about ability to defeat Trump in the election. These two goals don’t necessarily align.
Indeed not
By necturus
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:49pm
Joe Biden has been the most effective President of the United States in decades. He got more done in the first two years of his Presidency than Barack Obama did in eight years.
Yet Biden is not a viable candidate in 2024, not even against a convicted felon and habitual liar without a patriotic bone in his body.
he's been a senator for four years!
By deselby
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:14am
Longer than Barack Obama when he was elected president
Plus you learn a lot of things rising to senior rank in the military, not to mention the technological education of being an astronaut.
Okay...
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:59pm
Okay...what things?
I really like the idea of Kelly on the ticket
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:23pm
He would have the respect of the military beyond the power of the office. That could be critical if the trumpbots pull another bullshit coup attempt.
He would be able to reach other veterans on the fence and make it clear how they could lose everything they worked for if Trump is elected.
He's also from a swing state and knows how to navigate that scene - how to mobilize voters and move them away from the crazy like he moved them away from Scary Fake and her legions of Qbots.
Bad idea
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:01am
Whoever's picked for VP needs to have strong foreign policy or economic chops. Maaaahty has neither.
Two local delegates ...
By adamg
Sun, 07/21/2024 - 8:22pm
State Rep. Chris Worrell and his brother, City Councilor Brian Worrell, said they will vote for Harris at the convention.
They all said President Biden was fine
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:01am
And anyone who criticized him was a hater, I don't trust their judgement or honesty.
No contradictions; two things can be true
By tblade
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:29am
They can still think Biden is fit for term 2, but faced with Biden's withdrawal—which was out of their control—they can credibly believe VP Harris is the best choice to defeat Trump.
Also, defending criticism of Biden was not denigrating VP Harris.
Defending President Biden
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:13am
Did not denigrate VP Harris, It does speak to their honesty though. Just my opinion and I'm not here to convince anyone to change theirs.
All the stories started to come out after the debate on his decline and all those who knew and tried to hide it, before it was too obvious to keep denying it.
Okay...
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:00pm
How, exactly? How were they dishonest? Show receipts.
I don't think you want to make this race a
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:55am
sweepstakes about honesty, do you?
I do
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:56am
That should get a third-party nominee elected. But it won't, because the electorate is garbage.
...and the most prominent
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:07am
...and the most prominent third-party candidate is a bit of a crackpot.
Sad that I'd choose
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:26am
"Medicine is fake" over what the D's and the R's are offering.
I'm probably voting Oliver, but if I see something I don't like, I'll look into Cornel West, and if I see something I don't like, I'm writing in Chris Rock.
Seriously, how did that chump get cute and funny Cheryl Hines to marry him?
This progression of events
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:32pm
This progression of events has been so bad and left me so tired that I read your "I'm probably voting Oliver..." and all my tortured brain could come up with was "Oliver Cromwell?"
Admittedly, the entertainment prospects of daily reading John Costello reacting to Oliver Cromwell have a certain... macabre fascination.
"Oliver Cromwell?"
By necturus
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:03pm
Be careful what you wish for.
It was, after all, growing dysfunction in the Roman republic that led to the rise of Caesar and the consequent transformation of Rome into an empire.
And there is no doubt that Trump and the Republicans are agents of chaos. They're not here to build but to tear down.
Sad indeed
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:01pm
Because that's an exceptionally stupid take.
Who?
Chase Oliver (presumably)
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:47pm
Chase Oliver (presumably)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_inde...
Stupid?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:34pm
How so, usually well-reasoned foil?
Obtuse?
By lbb
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 11:51am
Normal people aren't up to speed on all the bit players in your little cult, usually againsty self-parody.
Is it my fault
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 7:03pm
That I'm better than most everyone else on Googling ballot access and sample ballots before I go vote?
Is it my fault
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:20am
That I don't bother to keep up to speed with the candidates of crackpot parties?
For the record, I'm also unaware of which offices Shiva Ayyadurai is running in 2024. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
If you don't keep up to speed
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 2:16pm
With the candidates of crackpot parties, then I'm left wondering why you know anything about the GOP at all.
Nice
By spin_o_rama
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:31pm
Reductive and tribal.
And then there was a debate
By Ari O
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:42pm
All Biden had to do was come into the debate and give a SOTU-like performance.
He failed to clear a pretty low bar, and failed quite spectacularly.
The thing is … Biden may well be fine. The thing about a president is it matters less exactly what words they say in what order and more what they do. But someone who is 82 and has been in a very stressful job for four years … yeah, they might not want to do another four. It probably shouldn't have taken Biden this long to figure it out.
Stunning news
By Sock_Puppet
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:37am
Democrats in array
Time to estimate them
By Plen-T-Pak
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:32pm
.
A sitting VP is always the worst possible choice
By necturus
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:00am
The only sitting VP to win a Presidential election recently was George H.W. Bush (1988). Before Bush, you have to go all the way back to Martin Van Buren (1838).
Al Gore lost in 2000. Hubert Humphrey lost in 1968. Richard Nixon lost in 1960. Even Bush would have lost in 1988 had Dukakis not run a truly execrable campaign.
Either Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer would be a far better choice than Harris.
This is shaping up to be a re-run of 1968, when Lyndon Johnson suddenly quit the race in favor of Humphrey. Even the calendar is identical.
This is the last summer of America as we've known it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
This is shaping up to be a re
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:10am
Incorrect.
Yes, there are some similarities to 1968.
However, LBJ made his announcement in late March. Also, the primary calendar started later back then than it does now.
Other differences from 1968
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:55am
1968: Multiple viable contenders after the primary process, brokered convention.
Humphrey severely hampered by association with Johnson’s Vietnam War.
Chaotic violence on the streets (and in the hall) during convention, drove voters to alleged “law and order” candidate.
2024: All signs indicate convention delegates are prepared to unite for Harris, whatever interim process is implemented.
Zero enthusiasm for non-registered democrat Joe Manchin.
Harris associated with incredibly impactful administration.
Roe, Bitches.
And, I don’t agree with Van
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:40pm
And, I don’t agree with Van Jones’s ‘68/‘24 comparison likening Gaza to Vietnam.
Not the primary calendar
By necturus
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:01am
The actual calendar. July 22 is a Monday, just like it was in 1968.
Yes, LBJ quit in March. And primaries were not nearly as significant as they are today... except this year they aren't. Harris will get the nomination without winning a single primary, just like Humphrey in 1968.
In 1968, the Vietnam war divided Democrats against one another, just as the Gaza war is doing this year. There were protests on college campuses, just as there are today.
The only thing missing is Mayor Daley.
The actual calendar. July 22
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:27am
So?
The sun rose in the east that day, too. Unlike the 22nd being a Monday, the continued consistent motion of the Earth relative to the Sun actually has some impact on the major Party tickets and the election (the destruction of most (human) life on Earth would negatively affect voter turnout).
Gaza divides the Socialist
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:41pm
Gaza divides the Socialist-Progressives from the Democrats.
al gore “lost”
By berkleealum
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:21am
al gore “lost”
No, Al Gore lost.
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:18am
No, Al Gore lost.
As did Trump in 2020.
No air quotes.
Um
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:03pm
Where's the bit in the Constitution about how the Supremes can decide elections on a whim?
SCOUS: Stop the recount (Gore
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:44pm
SCOUS: Stop the recount (Gore ahead) wait, (Gore ahead) wait, (Gore ahead) wait, (Bush ahead) NOW!
i’ll never understand
By berkleealum
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 12:12am
this need to demonstrate impartiality by drawing two obviously unrelated things as two sides of a coin.
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