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But Kamala Harris Didn’t Win a Single Primary!

A look into how she could become the official Democratic Presidential nominee

John Polonis ("Johnny P")
The Political Prism
8 min readJul 25, 2024

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Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris; Wikimedia Commons

Has the Democratic Party staged a coup against President Joe Biden? Is it reminiscent of the infamous Clinton emails from 2016 where the party derided the Bernie Sanders campaign?

And how could Kamala Harris become the Democratic nominee for President when she didn’t win a single primary? Sure, she was on the ticket that won, but only in her capacity as Vice President.

If you listen to conservative media or Elon Musk and his cronies on X, you may be led to think this is the antithesis of democracy; that Democrats are trying to overthrow the Republic and strip votes away from those who voted for Biden (not Harris!) in the primary. Or as the conservative commentator David Sacks called it: “elder abuse!”

Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports fame (and infamy) even weighed in by accusing the Democratic Party of “hijacking democracy”; that they “stole the vote” from the American public because Kamala Harris…

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John Polonis ("Johnny P")
The Political Prism

Lawyer writing on law & politics, artificial intelligence, and the future of it all.