https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/28/kamala-harris-control-democratic-party/
" Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party chair, and Bakari Sellers, the former South Carolina state lawmaker, started running their own delegate whip operation weeks before Biden bowed out. There was no public list of the 4,000 or so first-ballot convention voters the risk of it leaking, causing harassment and death threats, hung in the air. But Brazile and Sellers knew the local politicians, the union leaders and the state party chairs who ran most delegations."
"They also knew the rules. It didn't matter how many donors or members of Congress called for Biden to step aside, or how many scripts the playwright Aaron Sorkin published on op-ed pages. Pledged delegates would decide, and they could betray Biden. According to Rule 13 (J), they had the power to vote on the first ballot "in all good conscience." So Brazile and Sellers made sure everyone held firm, reporting back to the campaign's whip operation and White House senior counselor Steve Ricchetti that the troops remained in formation."
" But when it came up, Brazile also told people that the party already had a backup quarterback on the roster. Sellers told others Harris could not be skipped. There was no question in those calls what would happen if Biden made a different choice. "I said: 'Oh hell no, you are not taking Vice President Harris out. That is not going to happen,'" Brazile said."
" Biden bowed out of the race at 1:46 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, July 21, sending Harris's advisers scrambling to the vice president's residence, where she wore a Howard University sweatshirt while placing more than 100 calls over the first 10 hours. Aides rushed to the campaign office in Wilmington, Del., to flip an entire brand from a dead stop before passing around late-night beer and whiskey to wind down."
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They started raising money before her campaign filed with the FEC. Joe Biden had made reference to a group of Democrat "elites" who were wanting him out and magically, the state Democratic chairs were on board without a second thought. This was a coup, plain and simple, with no chance for any other candidates to come forward.
" Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party chair, and Bakari Sellers, the former South Carolina state lawmaker, started running their own delegate whip operation weeks before Biden bowed out. There was no public list of the 4,000 or so first-ballot convention voters the risk of it leaking, causing harassment and death threats, hung in the air. But Brazile and Sellers knew the local politicians, the union leaders and the state party chairs who ran most delegations."
"They also knew the rules. It didn't matter how many donors or members of Congress called for Biden to step aside, or how many scripts the playwright Aaron Sorkin published on op-ed pages. Pledged delegates would decide, and they could betray Biden. According to Rule 13 (J), they had the power to vote on the first ballot "in all good conscience." So Brazile and Sellers made sure everyone held firm, reporting back to the campaign's whip operation and White House senior counselor Steve Ricchetti that the troops remained in formation."
" But when it came up, Brazile also told people that the party already had a backup quarterback on the roster. Sellers told others Harris could not be skipped. There was no question in those calls what would happen if Biden made a different choice. "I said: 'Oh hell no, you are not taking Vice President Harris out. That is not going to happen,'" Brazile said."
" Biden bowed out of the race at 1:46 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, July 21, sending Harris's advisers scrambling to the vice president's residence, where she wore a Howard University sweatshirt while placing more than 100 calls over the first 10 hours. Aides rushed to the campaign office in Wilmington, Del., to flip an entire brand from a dead stop before passing around late-night beer and whiskey to wind down."
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They started raising money before her campaign filed with the FEC. Joe Biden had made reference to a group of Democrat "elites" who were wanting him out and magically, the state Democratic chairs were on board without a second thought. This was a coup, plain and simple, with no chance for any other candidates to come forward.
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