{"id":2339025,"date":"2024-09-10T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-party-tried-to-boot-everybody-it-dislikes-from-ballots\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T07:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:37:45","slug":"democracy-party-tried-to-boot-everybody-it-dislikes-from-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-party-tried-to-boot-everybody-it-dislikes-from-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democracy&#8217;\u00a0Party Tried To Boot Everybody It Dislikes From Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocracy-party-tried-to-boot-everybody-it-dislikes-from-ballots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2339025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article \u2064discusses the \u2064Democratic Party&#8217;s internal politics and their handling of primary candidates, comparing it to Henry Ford&#8217;s famous \u2063quote about\u2063 the\u2063 Model T. It highlights how party leaders have stifled competition by preventing\u200d viable primary challenges and attempting to erase independent candidates, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from the ballot in\u2064 several\u200c states after he decided to run independently. After a debate showcased President Joe \u200cBiden&#8217;s decline, concerns about his campaign viability grew within the party, leading to suggestions that he\u200d step\u2064 aside in\u2062 favor of Kamala Harris. This maneuvering disregards the democratic choices of voters, canceling out millions of votes cast for Biden. The piece critiques these actions as\u2062 hypocritical and argues they are a form of election interference, \u200bparticularly in\u2062 the \u2064face \u200bof potential competition from other candidates like \u2063Cornell West and Jill Stein. Ultimately, it portrays the situation as a cynical\u2063 effort to maintain party power rather\u2063 than genuinely support democratic processes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Henry Ford famously said of his <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.ford.com\/articles\/history\/the-model-t.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Model T<\/a> cars that the &ldquo;customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.&rdquo; A hundred years later, the Democrat Party bosses are effectively saying the same thing: We are for &ldquo;democracy&rdquo; as long as our chosen candidate is the only choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, the Democrat Party bosses prevented any real primary challenge to their incumbent.&nbsp;Then, after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bowed out of the Democrat primary to run as an independent in the general election, the Democrat bosses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/democrats-allies-sue-to-keep-rfk-jr-off-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed legal challenge<\/a> after legal challenge to prevent him from appearing on the ballots in Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Delaware, and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/im1776.com\/2024\/08\/24\/rfk-address-to-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kennedy stated<\/a>, &ldquo;In the name of saving democracy, a Democratic Party set itself to dismantle it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Democrat bosses, President Joe Biden exposed his mental and physical decline to the entire world in the now-infamous June 27 debate with Donald Trump, and they could no longer keep up the charade. In the weeks following the debate, Biden tried to reassure his party leadership, in failed interview after failed interview, that he could manage on the campaign trail. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, the only elected Democrat who managed to make it to New Hampshire,<strong> <\/strong>called out the powers that be, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/07\/09\/congress\/dean-phillips-breaks-biden-silence-00167170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, &ldquo;If this has been vindication, vindication has never been so unfulfilling.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips continued, &ldquo;I made my case eight months ago and I think it&rsquo;s time for others to share their perspectives. I&rsquo;m deeply disappointed in a political system that has resulted in this dynamic that we now face.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the bosses forced a man who likely did not know what X, or Twitter, even was to release two statements on the social media website dropping out of the race and endorsing Kamala Harris. After Harris was installed as the new Democrat nominee for president, Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nancy-pelosi-admits-concern-biden-campaign-1941551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted on CNN<\/a>, &ldquo;I did what I had to do &hellip; My concern was not about the president; it was about his campaign.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, 14 million Democrat primary votes for Joe Biden were tossed into the garbage, right where the party bosses wanted them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But not only Democrat primary voters were denied an alternative. Through whatever convoluted excuse they could come up with, the party bosses attempted to force <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-robert-kennedy-cornel-west-jill-stein-3cef5d4716e7650a1a113d7ebc45d6cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">any and all<\/a> potential liberal rivals off of the general election ballot so the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-rnc-chair-shows-his-true-colors-with-cringey-kamala-harris-endorsement\/\" title=\"Former RNC Chair Shows His True Colors with Cringey Kamala Harris Endorsement\">party didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t run into another &ldquo;blue wall&rdquo; problem as it did in 2016. In places such as Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Democrats tried to keep RFK Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein off the ballot. It&rsquo;s so patently absurd that even in her home state of Wisconsin, a DNC staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/democrats-lose-ploy-to-remove-green-party-ticket-from-wisconsin-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a petition<\/a> with the Wisconsin Elections Commission to keep Stein off the ballot, alleging that she failed to complete a technical, procedural step.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one can argue this is anything but a cynical hypocritical power play, as only now that Kennedy has suspended his campaign and thrown his support to Trump do Democrats want Kennedy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/rfk-jr-remain-on-ballot-michigan-wisconsin-rcna168506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remain on the ballot<\/a>, presumably in the hopes that he will siphon off votes from Trump. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that brings us to Democrats&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-release-more-receipts-showing-the-depths-of-biden-family-profiteering-with-foreign-enemies\/\" title=\"GOP Senators Release More Receipts Showing The Depths Of Biden Family Profiteering With Foreign Enemies\">egregious election interference<\/a> against their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-durham-probe\/\" title=\"Everything You Need To Know About The Durham Probe\">chief political rival<\/a>.&nbsp;The Democrats in power weaponized the Department of Justice in ways previously unseen to keep Trump from running for another term.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They raided Trump&rsquo;s Mar-a-Lago home to retrieve documents and bring charges against him while ignoring documents Biden had no right to as senator and vice president, which were lackadaisically stored beside his Corvette in a garage. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They judge- and jury-shopped indictments against Trump in New York City, D.C., Georgia, and Florida, yet only succeeded in convicting him on a twisted novel theory that is a prime example of <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/new-report-how-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-and-judge-merchan-violated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political persecution<\/a>. No one ever has been, and no one else likely ever will be, charged in such a case. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a unanimous United States Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-trump-insurrection-election-colorado-51e79c0f03013034c8a042cb278b6446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> the Democrat bosses&rsquo; attempts in Maine, Colorado, Illinois, and elsewhere to keep Trump off ballots in those states under a rejected 14th Amendment argument.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat Party bosses have disenfranchised their own voters by installing a presidential nominee who has received no votes for president, either this primary election or during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-kamala-harris-wants-to-memory-hole-her-border-record\/\" title=\"Why Kamala Harris Wants To Memory-Hole Her Border Record\">short-lived 2020 presidential campaign<\/a>. In the general election, they will continue to work to remove candidates from the ballot or worse, put them in jail. <\/p>\n<p>Forget Henry Ford, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would be proud of the Democrat Party&rsquo;s efforts to give voters no choice in the election. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Michael Thielen is president and executive director of the Republican National Lawyers Association.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Ford famously remarked that customers could have his Model T cars in any color they wanted, as long as it was black. A century later, the leaders of the Democratic Party seem to echo this sentiment: they support &#8220;democracy&#8221; only when their preferred candidate is the sole option available. Initially, these party leaders stifled any genuine primary challenges to their incumbent. After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew from the Democratic primary to run as an independent in the general election, party officials launched a series of legal actions to block him from appearing on ballots in states like Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Delaware, and New Jersey. As Kennedy pointed out, \u201cIn the name of saving democracy, a Democratic Party set itself to dismantle it.\u201d He noted that lacking confidence in their candidate&#8217;s ability to win fairly at the polls led the DNC to engage in ongoing legal battles against both President Trump and himself.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for party leaders, President Joe Biden&#8217;s evident mental and physical decline became apparent during a widely discussed debate with Donald Trump on June 27th; thus maintaining appearances became impossible. In subsequent weeks following this debate, Biden attempted unsuccessfully through various interviews to reassure party leadership about his capability on the campaign trail. Rep. Dean Phillips from Minnesota\u2014one of the few elected Democrats who made it to New Hampshire\u2014criticized those in power by stating that if this situation represented vindication for them, then such vindication was profoundly unfulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips expressed disappointment with a political system leading them into this predicament and suggested it was time for others&#8217; perspectives to be heard after he had made his case eight months prior. Consequently, party bosses compelled someone who likely didn\u2019t even understand social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) into issuing two statements endorsing Kamala Harris after he dropped out of contention for president himself. Following Harris\u2019s nomination as the new Democratic presidential candidate, Nancy Pelosi acknowledged on CNN her motivations were not about Biden but rather focused on ensuring his campaign&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>Thus 14 million votes cast by Democrats during primaries were disregarded entirely\u2014a move clearly desired by those at the top of their hierarchy. However, disenfranchisement extended beyond just primary voters; using various convoluted justifications aimed at avoiding another &#8220;blue wall&#8221; scenario like 2016\u2019s election loss led these leaders trying hard not only against RFK Jr., but also Cornell West and Jill Stein across states including Nevada and Wisconsin where attempts were made even within Stein\u2019s home state through technical procedural claims.<\/p>\n<p>This blatant hypocrisy becomes more evident now that Kennedy has suspended his campaign while supporting Trump; suddenly Democrats want him back on ballots presumably hoping he will draw votes away from Trump instead.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover concerning is how Democrats have engaged in severe electoral interference against their main political opponent\u2014their use of Department Justice resources has reached unprecedented levels aimed solely at preventing Trump&#8217;s re-election bid through tactics such as raiding Mar-a-Lago over document retrieval while ignoring similar issues surrounding Biden\u2019s mishandling classified materials stored carelessly alongside personal items like Corvettes within garages.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve pursued indictments across multiple jurisdictions yet managed only one conviction based upon dubious theories indicative more so than ever before regarding political persecution than actual justice being served\u2014no one else has faced charges under comparable circumstances nor likely will again anytime soon either! <\/p>\n<p>Additionally unanimous rulings from United States Supreme Court rejected efforts by Democrat officials attempting exclusionary measures targeting Trump via discredited arguments rooted within 14th Amendment interpretations across Maine Colorado Illinois among other locations too!<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately what remains clear here is how deeply entrenched these power players are willing go disenfranchise even fellow members within own ranks installing nominees without receiving any legitimate votes whatsoever either past elections or current primaries alike\u2014all while continuing efforts remove alternative candidates altogether or worse imprisoning them outright! Forget Henry Ford; Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would surely commend today\u2019s Democrat Party endeavors ensuring voters face no real choices come election day ahead! <\/p>\n<p>Michael Thielen serves as president &amp; executive director Republican National Lawyers Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2956,"featured_media":2339026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-speaking.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5521,6571,35802,5894,40526],"class_list":["post-2339025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-party-politics","tag-politics","tag-voter-suppression"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-speaking.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}