Kamala's Deputy Campaign Manager Explains Why There Wasn't An Open Primary - Get Ready To Laugh

Posted • December 7, 2024: President Joe Biden decided that if he were going to be forced out of the 2024 race, he wouldn’t allow his enemies to dictate the terms of the new ticket. There are numerous stories about how the party brass wanted a mini-primary, not a coronation, but Biden decided to nuke it. When he announced he was ending his re-election bid, he immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. If you’re wondering why Barack Obama and other top Democrats took longer, this wasn’t the plan—no one wanted Kamala. Pelosi admitted she wanted a lightning-round primary. That’s the primary reason, but there’s another one that’s predictable given the ethos of the Democratic Party: they were afraid to infuriate black women if someone other than Kamala won. You simply cannot make this up, but deputy campaign manager for the Harris operation, Quentin Fulks, admitted that this was a central concern for going down the primary route.

He expounded further at the Harvard Institute of Politics, where he said that losing black women, Kamala’s strongest voting bloc, would have left whoever won, should it not have been the vice president without any base or party infrastructure. He then said that he’s not making a case against primaries in making these points: Kamala Harris campaign manager explains the Democrat party could not have an open primary because it would have upset black women: Quentin Fulks: "To open up a Democrat primary, you would have had black women, be highly upset if it was not Kamala Harris. I hear your concern and I am not saying that primaries are not important." In the Democrat party, DEI is more important than 'Democracy'. -- It was important that we hijack the democratic process, because we thought some of our voters cared more about tribal affiliation than democracy, and we didn't want to be seen as beholden to democracy. (…)

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