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By Guy Page
Vermont Democrat delegates to the national convention met “in an informal meeting” Monday, July 22 to unanimously endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee for president, according to a statement by the Vermont Democratic Party.
The party chair portrayed the endorsement as the culmination of two days of grassroots support. However, both GOP Chair Paul Dame and BLM have said Harris is being forced on Democratic voters by the party leadership.
“We’ve heard an outpouring of support from Vermonters across the state for Vice President Harris in the last day and a half,” said VDP Chair David Glidden, 29, a St. Albans LGBTQ youth advocate for Outright Vermont. “Our phones have been ringing off the hook with a record number of people signing up to volunteer to elect Democrats up and down the ticket in November. I’m proud to be a part of such an historic moment.”
At the VDP’s May 18 state convention, nearly 400 Democrats from around Vermont gathered and elected 11 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and that group in turn finalized the slate with five more in June, Glidden said in a July 22 statement.
In public statements this week, the delegates hit the key talking points already established for the Harris campaign: youth, abortion rights, her experience prosecuting sex abusers, and the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Project.
“Those delegates met in an informal meeting tonight to discuss the current state of the Presidential race and decided as a group to lend their voices to the chorus cheering Vice President Harris on,” Glidden said.
The meeting was held virtually, with 14 of Vermont’s 16 pledged delegates in attendance, and two more indicating support for Harris by text, according to a VTDigger report.
Glidden is not the only youthful delegate representing Vermont, one of the oldest states in the U.S.
“As one of the youngest delegates in America, I am thrilled at the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris running for President,” said homelessness support advocate Addie Lentzner of Bennington, a recent high school graduate. “I fully support her nomination, and I look forward to following her lead to put Trump’s Project 2025 in the trash bin, making these next few months – and next four years – empowering and transformative for America.”
“Reproductive rights are on the ballot this year and there is no better standard bearer than Vice President Harris,” said Thea Wurzburg of Winooski, another young person and former Welch staffer and airplane manufacturer BETA employee Thea Wurzburg. “I’m ready to defeat Trump’s extremist agenda that would turn back the clock on so many of our fundamental rights, and finally elect our first woman president.”
“President Biden and Vice President Harris have led one of the most successful and accomplished administrations in the modern history of America,” said CD Mattison, a delegate from Burlington and unsuccessful candidate for mayor this year. “American democracy is under threat with the Republican commitment to Project 2025. Vice President Kamala Harris has proven that she knows how to deliver against perpetrators and predators at all levels. She’s ready to prosecute the case against Donald Trump and win for the American people.”
Other voting delegates to the convention in Chicago next month include Howard Dean, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, Rep. Becca Balint, Vice-Chair and Vermont Historical Society staffer Amanda Gustin, Staffer for House Speaker Jill Krowinski Molly Moore, former staffer for Mayor Miro Weinberger Samantha Sheehan, and Balint staffer and campaign aide Peter Trombley.
GOP chair recalls VP’s uninspiring run for president in 2020
In his commentary following Pres. Biden’s announcement he would not seek another term, GOP Chair Paul Dame called Harris “an unbelievably terrible candidate” during her 2002 presidential run.
“When she ran in 2020 Kamala Harris received her only positive attention when she hit Joe Biden hard in a debate for being a racist segregationist. But ultimately, she was seen by Democrats as an unbelievably terrible candidate who had such little support among Democrats that she was forced out of the race before the first vote was cast. Her own fundraisers had trouble convincing donors to support her,” Dame said.
He noted that Harris was doomed after her exchange with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard who pointed out that:
-Harris imprisoned over 1500 Californians for marijuana use, then laughed about it when asked if she had ever smoked herself;
-Harris blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from Death Row;
-Harris kept people in prison beyond their sentences.
Dame also questioned the national Democratic leadership’s apparent fait accompli of Harris as the presumptive candidate.
“Democrats saw her and rejected her in the last election – now they are being forced to accept the once-failed candidate. There are few things more anti-democratic than the situation Democrats have put their own voters in,” Dame said.
Much of the content in this story was sourced directly from statements provided by the Vermont Democratic Party and the Vermont Republican Party.
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I mean what did we expect?… When the Democratic party ditched Bernie, nobody really said anything in Vermont.
Just a bunch to go along to get alongs….
I would be outraged if I were a Democrat!! Why are you even trying to “convince” me??? The fix is already in, and it doesn’t matter what I think!! This is full-on cover-your-ass damage control, by telling you “they” know best, that a primary isn’t really needed, because voters might interfere with the “election”.
But, as it turns out, God blessed me with the ability to think for myself, and thus there is no way I could be a Democrat!!
Nice, a Quintet of Marxists who hate America.
Yes, this is what the DemocRATs call democracy, when you know your current candidate is losing kick them to the curb and then have a bogus meeting behind closed doors, and then select ” pick ” your new candidate in the dark of night, no choice this is it.
Harris is going to be fun to watch, we all knew Joe was and is not competent due to his mental decline, but Harris is an Idiot, a babbling idiot…. let the fun begin !!
Kamala is an excellent pick by the Commiecrats.
It will be fun to watch their screeching u-turn in a few weeks when Kamala fails to get traction and they have to fall in line behind the real candidate.
Bruh, You want to talk about losers, Donnie lost the last two popular votes, soon to be three. Before JD Vance, the lowest approval rating was a +9, JD is a minus 16. JD Vance is the Ron DeSantis of Sarah Palins, he is so unlikable. Loved the eyeliner too, very Appalachian masculine. Anyone see the Diet Dew Clip? Yeesh
Speaking of losers, our vote doesn’t matter because of the electoral college, but it would be awesome to see Hillary be the only person that couldn’t beat Donny.
Anyway, Paul if you’re going to call someone a loser, it generally helps if you’ve actually won something, otherwise it takes one to know one.
The presidential election is designed to win states for the number of electoral vote tally, it’s not a popularity contest. The popular vote means nothing as it’s a well-known factor that if presidents were elected by the popular vote rural populations would always lose to the urban liberal votes. The founders knew this in the 1700s. Maybe you should read the federalist papers and study the constitution. I guess calling the former president Donnie is supposed to win you some point from the echo chamber you live in. Disrespect and shaming, Rules for Radicals #5. And aren’t you supposed to be a teacher? Apparently, education has been dumbed down much further than I realized.
“And aren’t you supposed to be a teacher?” No
Its not a popularity contest is something a loser would say. I forgot to add that DONNIE is the only President who’s political party lost ground every mid-term election, so I guess he is a winner
Yes, the country is in such great condition. We have all been losers under Biden and his “team”. So, you have a bad case of TDS and that only affects you and your Donnie rage. I’ve never met a liberal who wanted to learn anything outside of the hive. I have bad news for you, DONNIE is going to be your president soon. I guess that would make you and yours all losers in November and beyond.
Are they spiking the football before the convention? Did they read the BLM statement (shocker I must say.) They may throw their support behind the most disliked figurehead in their party, but I expect they will be prompted to pivot as the electorate and election rules are not in line at this time.
Kamala, in spite of her bizarre cackling fits and innane word salad, has a lot of musty, questionable baggage (Willie Brown) and bad grifter, prosecutor history with minorities she can’t bury or hide. We do know them all by their fruits regardless.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Four of the 5 delegates pictured are an LGBTQ youth advocate, a former Welch staffer, an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Burlington and a recent high school graduate and abortion advocate. My question is, does every democrat/progressive delegate have to qualify as an advocate for all the crazy s–t that their party represents? I just don’t see a whole lot of actual knowledge expressed in this group picture. What I do see is a very strong reason not to vote for anything they say or do.
A handful of party elites pick the least qualified woman who barely passed the bar, garnered NO votes in Iowa, dropping out a few days later, and lied to us all saying Old Joe was “sharp as a tack” for the last 3.5 years? What ever happened to the “will of the people” as expressed by floor votes at their national convention? Not to mention she was picked by Old Joe ONLY because of skin color and ovaries? (he said so) 170 Million women in the USA and she’s the best of the best? What about her LIES, along with Mayorkas, about the 9 Million new welfare recipients that rushed over the “closed border”? These people have NO shame, none.
Send the disgusting liberal leftist Dem Swamp Rats 🐀 🐀 packing period!
Wake up Americans wake up!!
Folks get out and get people Registered to VOTE and get out and VOTE Red, Red, Red VOTE RED!
Get-R-Done Patriots Get-R-Done Donald J Trump Get-R-Done 👍🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸👍