The Democrats just keep stepping on their you-know-whats. In their latest peccadillo, they have scheduled their national convention after the candidate filing deadline for the state of Ohio, and now they are having to come up with a workaround, in which they will nominate befuddled old Joe Biden virtually.
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The Democratic National Committee announced on Tuesday that it will nominate President Joe Biden through a “virtual roll call” vote ahead of the August convention to ensure he appears on the Ohio ballot this November.
Ohio’s ballot deadline is Aug. 7, two weeks before the DNC planned to hold its official presidential nomination at an in-person convention in Chicago. Frank LaRose, the Republican secretary of state, warned last week that Biden would not be on the state’s ballot unless the state lawmakers moved the ballot access deadline to after the Democratic convention. Days later, the DNC announced it would expedite the nominating process, though no date has yet been announced for the virtual roll call.
The DNC Chair, when commenting on this workaround, made one of the most staggeringly ironic statements of this election cycle:
“Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree. But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement. “Through a virtual roll call, we will ensure that Republicans can’t chip away at our democracy through incompetence or partisan tricks and that Ohioans can exercise their right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice.”
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Did you get that? “…ensure that Republicans can’t chip away at our democracy”?
Like Democrats have when suing to have Donald Trump removed from ballots in blue states like Colorado and California?
Like Democrats have when dragging a former President of the United States into courtrooms on what are sadly and obviously trumped-up (hah) charges?
Look, I’m no more fond of a tu quoqueargument than anyone who abhors a logical fallacy, but I don’t think this is a hill the Democrats should choose to die on. Not with how their candidate is looking these days, and certainly not given their increasingly desperate attempts to halt the return of Trump in “Trump II – This Time It’s Personal.”
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It’s impossible to conclude anything from this being necessary other than the fact that the DNC has, as we used to say in the Army, engaged in a certain act with a certain animal of the canine variety. We are looking not only at a befuddled president, not only at a vice president who loses debates with potted plants, not only an administration full of DEI hires who seem to have trouble distinguishing the difference between face and fundament on a wide variety of issues but also an incompetent Democratic National Committee who seem to be incapable of reading a calendar.
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What’s amazing about all this isn’t Biden’s crashing poll numbers; what is amazing is that those numbers have not yet dropped into single digits.
Ohio isn’t the only state where the Democrats faced problems, although those issues are already resolved.
The state of Washington and Alabama also have early certification deadlines that fall before the DNC. But Democrats in the former resolved the issue by offering a provisional certification of Biden’s nomination. Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation earlier this spring that deferred the state’s certification deadline until after the DNC.
This seems appropriate.