More than 14 million Democratic primary voters cast ballots supporting Biden as the nominee. Now a few thousand of his delegates will pick his replacement, prompting questions about the democratic process.
By Colby Itkowitz, Holly Bailey and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington PostAn audience at Renaissance High School in Detroit listens to President Biden speak July 12.
Vice President Harris speaks at a campaign event Thursday at Westover High School in Fayetteville, N.C. Throughout the campaign, Democrats have assailed Trump as a threat to democracy because he has denied the results of the 2020 election and refused to concede. But now, Trump is trying to use the potential elevation of Harris to flip the script.
“I’m the nominee of this party because 14 million Democrats like you voted for me in the primaries,” Biden said at a Detroit campaign event on July 12. “You made me the nominee, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not donors, you the voters. You decided, no one else, and I’m not going anywhere.”
Roberto Reveles, 91, a delegate from Arizona, said it is “perfectly fair” to swap Harris in for Biden. Oversight Project, wrote in an early April memo that if Democrats tried to replace Biden, “there is the potential for pre-election litigation in some states that would make the process difficult and perhaps unsuccessful.”
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