Democrats Release Party Platform in Chicago: Calls for Reelecting Joe BidenJoel B. Pollak 19 Aug 2024
The Democratic Party released its official platform on Sunday night, to be voted on at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois — and it calls for reelecting President Joe Biden, who was still the candidate at the time the document was finalized in mid-July.
“President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job,” it says.
Read the full, 91-page document here.
The platform begins with a “land acknowledgment,” declaring that the convention is being held on lands once belonging to Native Americans. This is a left-wing practice that, the Wall Street Journal noted last weekend, is central to the ideology behind campus anti-Israel protests — the claim that the United States and Israel are guilty of “settler colonialism.” This also “means rejecting the understanding of American history that has been mainstream since the mid-20th century—that it is a story of slow progress toward fulfilling the nation’s founding promise of freedom for all,” the Journal notes.
The Democratic platform claims Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have achieved enormous progress for Americans, and that Donald Trump “is rigging our economy for his Mar-a-Lago friends and billionaire donors, who like him, are only in it for themselves.”
It omits some of Harris’s recent economic proposals, such as a taxpayer-funded $25,000 down payment for first-time home buyers and a $6,000-per-child tax credit. It does, however, include rhetoric claiming, without evidence, that companies are guilty of “price gouging,” a claim central to Harris’s demand for socialist-style price caps to fight inflation.
The platform makes a number of misleading claims, including the claim that the U.S. is “finally rebuilding … broadband” as part of the administration’s investment in infrastructure. Despite a $42.5 billion fund for expanding broadband under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which Harris was meant to supervise, not one new connection has been built.
Despite focusing on President Biden, the platform omits some of his recent plans to “reform” the Supreme Court by imposing term limits, which Democrats would hope to use to oust conservative justices and replace them with liberals.
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