(DailyChive.com) – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is demanding the DNC stop using his state as a reason they need to hold virtual elections to validate Kamala Harris as the next Democratic presidential candidate.
LaRose blasted DNC Chairman Jamie Harris (no relation) in a letter dated Thursday, July 25. He decried deceptive framing by Democratic officials who have been arguing that the virtual vote in advance of the convention to solidify Harris as the presumptive nominee was due to state laws in Ohio that mandated the choice be identified by August 7.
LaRose pointed out that there was a law passed and signed that extended the deadline to September 1.
The DNC plans to hold a virtual vote with its delegates early anyway and continues to cite Ohio’s ballot access deadline as the justification, despite there being no conflict.
DNC officials speaking with the corporate press claimed that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was threatening legal action to challenge the Democratic nominee being placed on the ballot which they argued disenfranchised voters. The narrative sounds strikingly similar to Colorado and Maine attempting to remove Trump from their state ballots until the Supreme Court rejected their rationales.
The official repeated the Democratic party line about having an “open, fair, and democratic” selection for the next nominee, despite completely short-circuiting the primary process which is how parties traditionally selected their candidates by getting genuine input from voters instead of billionaire donors. Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings was one of several Democrat mega-donors who held their cash donations until Biden was replaced.
Harris claimed she had the support of 4,000 delegates within 36 hours of Biden withdrawing from the contest. She posted on social media that she was “proud to have earned” that support. Inherited would have been a more accurate verb.
LaRose pointed out that legally, there’s no need to hold any selection early under Ohio law now that the extension has been approved. He added that candidates have until September 1 to finalize their candidacy within their respective parties and any claims that the virtual roll call is required earlier are misleading.
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