The shocking success of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has led to some people wondering if America should rethink its election timeline.
Namely, editor-in-chief of ‘Semafor,‘ Ben Smith. On Monday, he tweeted his suggestion that this may become a “new model” of campaigning in which all events and primaries are pushed until just weeks before the party convention.
“Did Kamala accidentally stumble into a new model for a very short campaign? What if the a party pushed all the primaries into the weeks before the convention? The long American campaigns have a real downside,” he wrote.
Did Kamala accidentally stumble into a new model for a very short campaign? What if the a party pushed all the primaries into the weeks before the convention? The long American campaigns have a real downside.
— Ben Smith (@semaforben) August 12, 2024
This didn’t sit right with many people, including ‘Federalist’ Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway who was quick to point out the driving force behind Harris’s campaign.
“If by ‘Kamala’ you mean the media-enabled regime that is destroying the country through propaganda and lies, possibly,” she wrote in her re-tweet.
If by “Kamala” you mean the media-enabled regime that is destroying the country through propaganda and lies, possibly. https://t.co/XOVoG5JXHi
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 12, 2024
Other X users shared their opinions on the concept of a truncated election process:
What if we just removed voters from the equation entirely?! Think of the efficiency!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 12, 2024
this only works if the media is actively campaigning for you too
— Mike Morrison (@MikeKMorrison) August 12, 2024
Yes,
It’s called never being accountable for any positions past or present and having the media carry all your water for you.
You’re such an embarrassment to actual journalism.
— J (@ARaised_Eyebrow) August 12, 2024
“Guys, new election strategy just dropped. You hold a soft coup on your old boss after he was exposed for being mentally incompetent, but you do it so close to an election no one can really cant be exposed or vetted, then you get legacy media to cover for your own incompetence.…
— Sack Head Shaun (@2againsttyranny) August 12, 2024
“Accidentally stumble”?!?
A rigged primary process following by a debate where Biden figuratively sh*t himself onstage followed by a threat to invoke the 25th amendment, which is essentially a coup to steal the nomination without a primary vote, is not a “stumble”.
— Moshe Hill (@HillWithView) August 12, 2024
She was able to do it because she was able to pivot the whole infrastructure that was built over the last year+ before this – which couldn’t have happened in any other circumstances.
— Eric Jotkoff (@Eric_Jotkoff) August 12, 2024
Tell us more about Kamala being in a primary, when was it, who’d she run against?
You absolute lawn flamingo!
— Outlaw Voter (@MaineRed2020) August 12, 2024
This would be impossible with an open primary.
I’m not saying that to criticize how she became the nominee, just to say it’s impossible to duplicate.
— Machine Pun Kelly (@KellyScaletta) August 12, 2024
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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