With the Democratic National Convention beginning in Chicago, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will be on display for a week, showcasing their strategies for defeating outgoing President Donald Trump in November. But on Monday, CNN analyst Scott Jennings gave a harsh critique that clearly surprised the panelists on the leftist network.
Jennings questioned the fairness of the Democratic nomination process in an impassioned tirade. He compared the Republican and Democratic primaries, saying, “Republicans had a real primary,” in an interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip. In the Republican primary, participants cast their ballots for the candidate they preferred, and the victor became the party’s nominee. The Democrats did not act in that way. After a rigged primary in which 14 million voters supported Biden, many later had second thoughts.
Jennings did not hold back in implying that the popular vote had been disregarded and that the DNC had rigged the nomination process in favor of their favorite candidate. Biden’s former director of communications, Kate Bedingfield, made an effort to defend the party’s procedure by referencing how a sitting president often faces little competition in the primary.
“She was on the ticket with him that got 14 million votes in this primary. Also, the incumbent president running effectively more or less unopposed in the primary is pretty, pretty standard operating procedure. So to suggest, now that — that’s somehow sort of some sort of undemocratic effort is just that’s just not true. That’s not true.”
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.@ScottJenningsKY to @AbbyPhillip: “[Republicans] had a real primary. I mean, the Republicans had a primary where people showed up and they voted their preferences and then the person they voted for actually got the nomination of the party. That's not what the Democrats did. They… pic.twitter.com/cJN7jIhMXX
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 19, 2024
Jennings swiftly retaliated, pointing to the peculiar way in which Biden resigned and alleging in a Sunday morning tweet that the Democratic leadership had forced him out. He clarified, “You ran the President of the United States out of his job by tweet,” he explained. The panel struggled to respond as Jennings continued, “You guys — party bosses, I get it. Like, you all are rough players.”
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is scheduled for August 19–22 at the United Center in Chicago, will formally nominate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota and Vice President Harris for president. After Biden dropped out of the campaign earlier in the year and backed Harris, the latter swiftly amassed enough delegates’ support to secure her nomination. Early phone and online voting for the nomination process was available from August 1 to August 5, with modifications made in response to ballot deadline issues. August 19’s afternoon business session in the United Center will be one of the main events. Delegates will cast in-person votes on the party program and formally nominate the vice-presidential and presidential candidates.
Vice President Harris will make the case for herself while taking the stage immediately following Biden’s primetime speech in which he praises his administration. Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state, is next on the schedule for tonight. The speakers for this week don’t end there. Former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are increasing the number of appearances they make on the campaign trail in the battleground states. With a full schedule of daily events in crucial battleground states, Trump is preparing to take on the Democrats for airtime by concentrating on subjects where Republicans feel they have the advantage. His busiest campaign week since taking on his main rivals last winter will be this one.
