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Why Kamala Harris left the state to avoid Obamas in the middle of DNC. Not weird at all, right?

August 21, 2024 | | Print Article

Reports on the Obama-centric reason Vice President Kamala Harris bailed on the second night of the DNC suggested “the left are a bunch of backstabbing middle school girls.”

The left would have voters believe that the Democratic National Convention portrayed a unified party that hadn’t nearly rent itself in two over their nominee as they branded themselves with “joy.” But their nominee’s decision to hold a rally elsewhere to formally receive the support from delegates only appeared to further pull back the curtain on the schism.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported on Harris’ event with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, nearly 100 miles from Chicago in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and noted “a source familiar with DNC planning tells FOX… that choice was made out of sensitivity and respect to [President] Joe Biden.”

“Obamas are still not on the White House’s good side,” the source said. “It would not be helpful to their relationships.”

Heinrich further detailed the “plan came together to avoid the optics of Harris — still serving as Biden’s Vice President — appearing alongside one of the figures he views as responsible for driving the end of his reelection bid — at the very convention which was supposed to be his only weeks ago.”

“We are in tricky territory,” added the source.

The Fox News correspondent also shared a post from ABC reporter Beatrice Peterson that showed Harris campaigning for then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in 2007 with the added caption, “VP Harris’ event tonight in Milwaukee counter-programmed both the man she has long supported, now rallying support for her White House bid, as well as her own husband’s speech.”

“A source familiar with DNC planning says the complicated relationship between Obama and Biden was the reason she stayed away tonight,” detailed Heinrich.

In pushing the idea that the party was united behind the Harris-Walz ticket, the New York Post reported on the hype efforts by Milwaukee Democratic organizer Jaliah Jefferson who had told the crowd at the Fiserv Forum, where the Republican National Convention had been held weeks earlier, “I’m really gonna need your energy when they broadcast us live.”

She reminded that Harris officially achieving the nomination “will be broadcast into TVs all over the country. And voters need to know that Wisconsinites, they stand with her.”

Knocking the extensive efforts to prop up the campaign, a source told the newspaper, “It’s all manufactured.”

“Obama and Biden know she is going to lose,” the individual added as the Post referenced a previous report wherein a source close to the president’s family had said Obama had pushed for the delegates at the convention to select the new candidate, but Biden had opted to back Harris.

“It was Joe’s big f*ck you. Joe said, ‘If I’m out, then I am endorsing her,” the source had said.

Supporting the notion that crowds were being enticed with performers like “DJ Kate,” who had reportedly entertained for over a half-hour before Harris arrived, and there was hardly a groundswell of favor for the nominee, the Post reported that after Harris and Walz departed, attendees were asked to leave and told they could watch the rest of the DNC’s second night from the screen outside the arena, including the Obamas’ speeches.

“The vast majority of attendees,” stated the Post, “left immediately.”

Reactions to the extensive effort the Democrats had undertaken for their, ahem, separate but equal second night, social media users couldn’t help but call out the childish appearance.

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