This year’s Democratic National Convention was billed as some sort of joyful celebration, but many who witnessed it say it was a disgraceful display for a candidate who did not earn the party’s nomination.
One such critic is Evan Barker, a longtime Democratic Party fundraiser who has raised at least $50 million for the party over the course of her career. After watching the DNC effectively coronate Kamala Harris, however, Barker decided to become a former Democrat.
As Breitbart reported:
She highlighted a recent report that prominent donors, such as Laurene Powell Jobs, circulated polling data aimed at persuading other high-profile donors of Harris’s electability, effectively sidelining other candidates.
“Clearly, there was a whole operation behind the scenes,” she said. “This would not have happened, in my opinion, without donor pressure — there’s no way.”
Barker further criticized the lack of policy discussion at the convention, labeling it a “corporate infomercial” disconnected from the struggles of working-class Americans, noting that Democrats “have completely abandoned” working class people like her family.
Of course, she’s far from the only one critical of the Democratic Party’s plan to oust Joe Biden in favor of Harris without a vote.
One of the most confusing things about this election is that literally nobody voted for Kamala to be here
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) October 28, 2024
.@DrJillStein: Kamala Harris Was "Coronated" by the Democrat Party pic.twitter.com/lWo5cbzzje
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 23, 2024
Kamala Harris was coronated in a backroom deal, because Joe’s cover-up was blown and donors stopped writing checks. The Democrat Party is powered by money- not people. Now, they’re trying to brainwash you. They want us to believe Kamala’s a political juggernaut and the next… pic.twitter.com/uxhkdUatSy
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 24, 2024
A number of other staunchly leftist activists and groups were disillusioned, including Black Lives Matter.
As the National Review reported in July:
We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs,” the group declared in a Tuesday statement. “Any attempt to evade or override the will of voters in our primary system—no matter how historic the candidate—must be condemned.”
The antagonistic statement comes after Harris secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee Monday night. She will likely be nominated at the DNC’s virtual roll call ahead of the party’s nominating convention in Chicago next month. But BLM wants the public to participate in the nomination process.
Here’s some additional coverage of BLM’s reaction:
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