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Timeline of Events
Sunday
•Joe Biden drops out.
•Kamala Harris announces campaign with Biden endorsement.
•Kamala Harris says she is going to work hard to earn the nomination.
•Kamala Harris makes calls to party delegates.
Monday
•Kamala Harris continues making calls to party delegates.
•Kamala Harris makes two public speeches.
•AP announces Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to be the
Democratic Nominee (Monday night).
•Kamala Harris releases this statement, noting she has worked hard to
"go out and earn this nomination" as promised (Monday night).
A 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a
process Democrats should be proud of. We do not live in a dictatorship.
Delegates are not oligarchs.
Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown
vice president without any public voting process would make the
modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites.
We call on the @DNC to create a process that allows for public
participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party
delegates.

Ruh-roh! Somebody forgot to buy off Black Lives Matter! I bet I know where several million dollars of Kamala’s recent fund-raising is about to go.

As BLM cogently explained, voting involves “public participation in the nomination process,” not “just a nomination by party delegates.” You couldn’t ask for a better antidote to all this flim-flammery and equivocation than that single post from Black Lives Matter.

Please pass the popcorn.

Trump’s campaign general counsel David Warrington filed the complaint yesterday. It alleged, “Kamala Harris is seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash — a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended,”

CNN noted that it’s unlikely the Federal Election Commission will act on the complaint until well after Election Day, given its historically slow pace of resolving enforcement questions. Well, it’s slow whenever claims involve democrats.

But in another plot twist, two days ago FEC Chair Sean Cooksey posted a citation to federal election law suggesting that donations to Biden’s presidential campaign must be returned to donors, not transferred to cackling selectees:

@SeanJCooksey
11 C.F.R. § 110.1(b)(3):
"If the candidate is not a candidate in the general election, all
contributions made for the general election shall be either returned or
refunded to the contributors or redesignated ., or reattributed .., as
appropriate."

But in another plot twist, two days ago FEC Chair Sean Cooksey posted a citation to federal election law suggesting that donations to Biden’s presidential campaign must be returned to donors, not transferred to cackling selectees:

SeanJCooksey
11 C.F.R. § 110.1(b)(3):
"If the candidate is not a candidate in the general election, all
contributions made for the general election shall be either returned or
refunded to the contributors or redesignated ., or reattributed .., as
appropriate."