“I watched the black-white stuff start on Thursday night.”
In the 2024 election, Barack Obama found himself in the unexpected position of fighting against the rise of the second black president. Opposing him was nearly every black Democrat, from Rep. Jim Clyburn, who helped put Biden in the White House in exchange for promises to appoint a black woman as his VP and to the Supreme Court, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, who were determined to make Kamala the candidate.
Biden’s debate collapse had created a historic moment of the worst possible kind. Dems needed to oust the man at the top of their ticket before his nomination could be confirmed and pick a replacement. Obama wanted a mini-primary process to pick his chosen candidate, but virtually every other powerful black Democrat wanted to rubber stamp Kamala for the position.
Kamala had desperately wanted to become the next Obama and had obsessively pursued Obama’s approval, but despite the similarities in their backgrounds, both were the children of radical academics and absent foreign fathers, raised in an atmosphere of privilege before learning to blow racial dog whistles to win over black voters and guilty white liberals, he had remained cool to her. Kamala had been far more interested in Obama than he was in her.
And that had not changed just as Kamala was on the verge of following in his footsteps.
Obama could see the disaster coming a while away. Kamala was unpopular, as bad a speaker as her boss, lacked charisma and had no appeal to voters, from his perspective, she had nothing in common with him other than their tentative racial identification, but he was unable to convince top black Democrats who may have had their own private doubts about Kamala’s political skills, but were not about to pass up the opportunity of a second black president.
Kamala’s appointment, or at least that of a black VP, had been the promise they secured from Biden, and with the old white guy on his last political legs, they were determined to cash it in.
Even as the fallout grew from Biden’s debate performance, ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House‘ revealed that Congressional Black Caucus members “laid down a marker: if Biden exited the race, they would accept no option other than Vice President Kamala Harris”.
Racial tensions exploded among Democrat insiders right after the debate. “I watched the black-white stuff start on Thursday night,” an elected official recalled.
At a private chat, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first ranking House Democrat and Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third ranking House Democrat, “had watched next-generation white governors lay the groundwork to battle Harris for the nomination” and agreed that, “they would not let their party skip over the first Black woman vice president, not without a fight.” --->READ MORE HERE
The Dems couldn't stop her in 2024. They may not be able to stop her now.
Kamala is not only running for president, she’s using the assets from her past presidential campaign to launch her new one.
Last weekend, Harris’ team sent a promotional email about the book, “107 Days,” that was paid for by the Harris Victory Fund — a collaboration between her presidential campaign, the DNC and state Democratic parties.
The bottom of the email reads: “Paid for by Harris Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized by Harris for President, the Democratic National Committee and the State Democratic Parties,” after which it lists dozens of states.
While the DNC does have a new chair, a lot of it is still staffed by Biden and Kamala people. Remember also that Kamala raised and (wasted) a ton of money, but kept on fundraising to pay off ‘campaign debts’. The fundraising went on unusually into 2025. The money supposedly was going to to go the DNC, but this suggests that much as with Hillary Clinton, the DNC remains a ‘pass through’ for a particular presidential candidate.
It also means that no matter how bad of a candidate Kamala seems, if she has the backing of the party operation, she can’t lose. If you doubt that, remember such stellar previous nominees like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and… well… Kamala whom no sane handicapper would believe could win based on their personalities and campaign appeal alone.
All of this means that Kamala’s candidacy may prove to be almost as hard for Dems to stop in 2028 as it was in 2024.
And, as I discuss in today’s article, Racism Made Kamala the Candidate and Cost Dems the White House, one key factor that helped rig her nomination in 2024 is still present. --->READ MORE HERE
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