“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
The Democratic Party’s convention starts on Monday, and Kamala Harris will be featured in almost every frame—but in all the excitement, something huge just leaked past the Democratic Party censors: One of their most important official documents doesn’t list Kamala as their presidential nominee!
It’s a major oversight that party delegates will scramble to fix ASAP — and they have almost no time left.
They may have lost track of things in the commotion of the last few weeks: Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi maneuvered Joe Biden into giving up on a second term. (Biden confirmed Pelosi’s betrayal earlier this week, saying that Democratic leaders told him they worried about losing the House and Senate if he remained as their nominee.)
Then, a 20-year-old man stalked President Donald Trump to one of his rallies and nearly took him out with a head shot.
Then, the Democrats held an official count that confirmed Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate—and she tapped Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
They’ve been generating as much glowing PR as possible for their new ticket, claiming they are the living embodiment of “joy” itself.
The cover of Time magazine, which used to mean a lot, says it’s “Her Moment.”
Harris’ “honeymoon” has been so over-the-moon that left-wing Vox news is comparing the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate to Beyonce.
The legacy media have turned her from a despised vice president into a celebrity, and she’s been basking in it.
But there’s still a big problem: The current version of the Democratic Party platform still says the party’s 2024 presidential candidate is Joe Biden!
For all the attention Kamala is getting in the media, the current version of the platform…released on July 13…barely mentions her at all.
The 2024 Democratic Party platform draft mentions Joe Biden a whopping 11,875% more often than Kamala Harris. The platform talks about Biden by name 285 times. Kamala Harris gets only 30 mentions—and six of them as part of the “Biden-Harris Administration.”
It’s actually worse than it sounds: Most of the remaining 24 times her name is in the document link her to Biden, referring to “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats.”
It never quotes her. It rarely praises her work.
It only mentions her in her individual capacity six or seven times…and several of those say the same thing in different words.
Kamala Harris is a complete afterthought—or she’s being hidden, because she was less popular than Joe Biden, who was so unpopular he had to step down as the candidate before Donald Trump destroyed him this November.
The current version of the platform—which was obtained by Politico—has an obsession with Biden as a person: talking about his life, praising him, quoting his words, and promising what will happen “in a second term.”
“This election is a choice between two very different economic visions for America,” the platform says. “Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club at Mar-a-Lago; and Joe Biden, who sees it from kitchen tables in Scranton like the one he grew up around.”
“President Biden believes that you shouldn’t have to go to four year college to live a good, middle-class life,” it continues.
“Trump talks. President Biden delivers.”
The platform makes promises of what will happen “under President Biden’s plan” for America, which will be enacted “in a second Biden term.” For instance, “In President Biden’s second term, he will push Congress to provide the resources and authorities that we need to secure the border…In his second term, President Biden will continue the work to ensure a secure border, protect U.S. jobs, and maintain stability in neighboring countries in order to keep Americans safe and prosperous.”
Really? When did he start?!
He also promised to raise taxes. Former President Donald Trump cut the U.S. tax rate, “President Biden will raise that rate back,” it says.
The platform seems to say Biden thinks of the U.S. military in passing—and, mostly, he thinks he’s done enough for the men in uniform. “President Biden has never and will never turn his back on our military. In his second term, he will continue to invest in upgrading to next-generation weapon systems.”
The promises continue that “in President Biden’s second term,” he will choose left-wing judges, regulate the development of artificial intelligence with his friends in Silicon Valley, “end veteran homelessness,” and “grow the middle class.”
“And in his second term, President Biden will continue to support access to FDA-approved medication abortion,” it says (which would shrink the middle class, and the poor).
In all, the platform mentions Biden’s “second term” 20 times and promises “Biden will” take action 25 times.
That’s a big role for someone who isn’t even running for president again.
If that’s not enough, the current draft of the platform even quotes Joe Biden like he’s Chairman Mao.
“As the President often says, capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism, it’s exploitation. And the American people are tired of being played for suckers,” it says in one place.
“President Biden has often said that the United States is strongest when we lead not only with the example of our power but with the power of our example,” it states in another.
“To any American with the ingenuity and drive to make a million bucks, President Biden says, great. Just pay your fair share in taxes,” in a third place.
“Great.” What an incredible quotation!
Then again, for all his tongue-twisters, goofs, and gaffes, at least Joe Biden tried to say something. Kamala Harris’ nonstop repetition about an America “unencumbered by what has been,” soothed by the “significance of the passage of time,” her reflections on the “duality” of democracy, and her brilliant insight that inflation means “prices are going up” would embarrass any teenager earning a C+ in civics.
Kamala Harris was a forgettable vice president—and the sooner America forgets her, the better.