The 2024 Democratic Party platform features a lot of Joe Biden, and a lot of Donald Trump
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The Democratic Party’s proposed platform, released Sunday on the eve of the Chicago convention, is full of contrasts between former President Donald Trump and the old Democratic nominee.
The Democratic Party’s proposed platform, released Sunday on the eve of the Chicago convention, is full of contrasts between former President Donald Trump and the old Democratic nominee. The 92-page nonbinding document, which outlines the Democratic National Committee’s priorities for the next four years, will be voted on by delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. But it hasn’t been updated since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him. “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job,” the platform’s preamble says. Platforms, which lay out the goals and policies the party broadly supports, are typically crafted to mirror the priorities of their presidential nominees. However, Harris officially locked down the Democratic nomination in late July — and began laying out the details of her policy agenda with the rollout of an economic platform in North Carolina on Friday. Her campaign has already disavowed some of the more progressive positions she took as a presidential candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary. And because the platform released Sunday night was built for a Biden reelection campaign, it’s not clear whether Harris will support every tenet. Steve Grossman, a former Democratic National Committee chairman during Bill Clinton’s presidency, said it’s no surprise Harris’ team would not have wanted to “create any divisiveness whatsoever around platform issues” in the short window between her emergence as the party’s nominee and the convention.
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