The Democratic National Committee’s virtual roll call vote has closed, and the Democratic Party announced that Vice President Kamala Harris received the votes of 99% of the participating delegates.
In a statement late Monday, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and Minyon Moore, the Democratic National Convention committee chair, said that the roll call results would next be certified by the convention’s secretary, Jason Rae, formalizing Harris’ status as the Democratic nominee who will take on Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
Why not?
It heavily favors moderates. No one, or at least very rarely will anyone get their first choice. But the least offensive candidate will be a lot of people’s second or third choice. There’s no functional reason it would lead to more than two parties, and doesn’t do anything to break up the big two we already have. You just have more candidates from each party running.
So you end up with a race towards milquetoast, be the least offensive. Be everybody’s second choice.