Hmm: Democrats are combating to get third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West off the poll in a number of states — whereas concurrently battling to maintain RFK Jr. on some states’ poll even after he’s withdrawn.
“Defending democracy” positive is a difficult enterprise.
In fact, the “precept” at stake right here is nothing however “what’s finest for Kamala Harris.”
Stein and West, each critical lefties, will siphon off votes prone to in any other case go to the Democrat; leaving Kennedy on (the calculation goes, anyway) will price Donald Trump extra votes than it does Harris.
And by no means thoughts that RFK’s marketing campaign needed to battle to get on most ballots again when he threatened to price Dems extra votes (which is what polling indicated when Joe Biden was nonetheless the nominee).
This additionally follows Democratic efforts — quashed by the Supreme Courtroom — to maintain Donald Trump off the poll in a number of states.
To not point out Dems’ years-long technique of intervening in GOP primaries to spice up extremist candidates who they determine can be simpler to beat within the basic election.
All of it makes a mockery of Democrats’ supposed concern for voters’ rights and clear elections.
“Elections” the place you possibly can’t vote for the candidate you need are a trademark of tyrannical regimes like Iran, Venezuela, China and the previous Soviet Union.
In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Courtroom simply denied Democrats’ request to have Jill Stein faraway from the poll, a ruling Stein rightly known as a “huge win towards the anti-Democratic Get together’s warfare on democracy.”
Anti-democratic, certainly: In Michigan, state Democrats challenged West’s candidacy, and the Board of Elections tried to have him disqualified by claiming his affidavit of identification wasn’t correctly notarized.
In the meantime, RFK Jr., who dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump on Aug. 23, is attempting to drag his title off the poll in swing states to keep away from taking part in spoiler.
However Democrat-run Wisconsin and Michigan denied Kennedy’s request to go away the poll, with Wisconsin Democratic Board of Elections member Mark Thomsen telling Kennedy’s camp: “You’re not going to have the ability to reduce a cope with somebody and play last-minute video games. . . . We all know Trump and Kennedy are taking part in video games.”
Solely Democrats get to play video games, together with switching out Biden for Harris as soon as they realized Joe was a positive loser.
They maintain saying “democracy is on the poll” this yr, however (to cite Inigo Montoya) we don’t assume that phrase means what they assume it means.
