Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said the way Vice President Kamala Harris was nominated for the Democratic presidential nomination was undemocratic.
Vance Full Send Podcast In an interview with the Nerk Boys published on Friday, one of the hosts, Bradley Martin, said “there’s really no democracy” in light of Harris becoming a candidate without actually running as a presidential candidate in a primary election that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have criticized as a “rigged election.”
“They’re on the sidelines and they’re saying, ‘Donald Trump is against democracy,’ but they’re also [Biden] “They just picked the candidate they wanted for so long that they missed the opportunity to vote for a new candidate,” Martin said. “So there’s no democracy there.”
“Not at all,” Vance agreed.
“14 million people voted. [Biden] “How many of you voted for Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination? Zero. None,” Vance added.
He also finds it ludicrous that some on the left have denounced him and former President Donald Trump as a “threat to democracy,” given the current state of the Democratic presidential nomination process.
“Trump is the most popular guy in his party, but he won the primary because that’s what he has to do. He has to convince voters that he’s the one. That’s how it works,” Vance said.
Vance, the Ohio senator who turned 40 on Friday, added that powerful Democratic Party strongmen and elites had pushed Biden out of the running, raising the question of “what is the real center of power in this country?”
“Essentially what happened was Barack Obama, the Clintons and a couple of billionaires got in a room and said, ‘Hey, this guy’s a political liability. Let’s throw him overboard,'” Vance said. “It’s pretty creepy when you think about it.”
“But when you realize he’s the president of the United States, it raises the question: if a few billionaires and unelected officials can oust the president, where is the real center of power in this country?” he added.
Vance urged Democrats who feel “uneasy” about how the electoral process is unfolding to vote Republican.
“You may not agree with us on everything but at least in our party we believe we have to convince people instead of trying to run this corrupt process behind the scenes,” he said.
