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Harris spoke generally about supporting the Biden administration’s key goals, which are more or less endorsed in the program in its written form. | Photo credit: X
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are scheduled to vote on their 2024 platform on Monday evening, which lays out the party’s known priorities but falsely names President Joe Biden as a candidate for re-election.
The largely ceremonial vote at the party’s convention in Chicago is a sign that the party is agreeing on a unified vision for the next four years – albeit a somewhat outdated one: Vice President Kamala Harris has outlined few of her own specific policy positions since assuming the Democratic presidential nomination last month.
The Democratic National Committee said Sunday that the 90-page document is a powerful statement of the historic work that President Biden and Vice President Harris have done hand in hand and offers a vision for a progressive agenda that we can build on as a nation and as a party over the next four years.
The party said its platform committee voted to adopt the platform on July 16, days before Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and endorsed Harris. As a result, the document repeatedly refers to Biden’s second term and his administration’s accomplishments. It mentions Harris’ work as vice president, but does not describe her candidacy or detail her views on key issues.
Harris spoke generally about supporting the key goals of the Biden administration, which are more or less advocated in the program in its written form.
The program calls for restoring abortion rights across the country, continuing to promote green energy initiatives that can create jobs and help slow climate change, capping child care costs for low-income families and urging Congress to approve a path to U.S. citizenship for people who have long been in the country illegally.
It also states that Israel’s right to self-defense is unchallenged and supports the Biden administration’s efforts to negotiate a permanent ceasefire that could end fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Harris laid out a series of new economic proposals last week but otherwise has not released a detailed list of her policy positions since taking the Democratic leadership position. Her campaign aides have suggested she no longer holds some of the more liberal positions she took during her first presidential campaign in 2020, including advocating for a ban on hydraulic fracturing.
Candidates are not bound to their party’s electoral program anyway and often do not do so.
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First published: August 20, 2024 | 7:08 am IS
