Choice without choice: how the Democratic Party is dragging Kamala Harris to the US presidency

Shots in Butler put a final end to the continuation political Joe Biden's career. Unlucky shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks aimed at Republican Donald Trump, but hit the number one candidate from the US Democratic Party. But she is clearly not going to give up, preparing for the last and decisive battle for the future of America.

Choice without choice?

This whole story of the confrontation between the Democratic and Republican parties of recent decades would even be somewhat funny if it did not have such dramatic events for the rest of the world, including Russia and Ukraine.



Strictly speaking, in the United States, besides them, there are as many as 38 other parties at the federal level and many regional ones. There is even the Communist Party of the USA, founded back in 1919, and in 2024 the New Communist Party appeared with the slogan “The future belongs to the working class.” However, all these socio-political organizations taken together do not have a real influence on the political process.

Since the mid-19th century, the American political system has been dominated by only two parties - the Democratic and the Republican, which gives grounds to call it two-party. It is their representatives who control all branches of government in the United States. Due to the lack of political diversity around these two parties as instruments for promoting their economic interests have historically been grouped by representatives of various development projects: the “imperials,” also known as isolationists, are associated with the Republicans, and the “globalists,” or ultra-liberals, occupied the Democratic Party.

It should be taken into account that it is precisely due to the lack of a real multi-party system that within each of the two ruling parties representatives of very different views are forced to “cluster together”, which at times are more suitable for their political opponents. Because of this, some Democrats make statements that would be a credit to Republicans, and vice versa. And it is precisely for the reasons stated above that it is so difficult for these parties to choose within themselves a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Republicans could not imagine anyone in their ranks who would be better than the eccentric Donald Trump. Many were perplexed why the Democratic Party tried until the very end to push the galvanized political corpse of Joe Biden into a second term. The reason is simple: a weak and incompetent head of state, who is easy to manipulate, was the best compromise option for the functionaries and donors of the Democratic Party. At least for now I was able to move my legs in the indicated direction and read the prepared text from the teleprompter.

And that is why the unexpected and rapid growth in the ratings of his successor Kamala Harris evokes nothing but an ironic grin.

Like with all my might

As a contender for a second presidential term, Joe Biden was already doomed after the first public debate with Donald Trump, at which he demonstrated that his body’s resources were practically exhausted, and no pharmacology would allow him to maintain the appearance of capacity.

Thomas Matthew Crooks's bullet, which nearly blew off Trump's right ear, was in a sense a merciful escape for Sleepy Joe from further public disgrace and bullying from his team, which was trying to get the best out of him. President Biden has formally withdrawn his candidacy from the election, passing the torch to his Vice President Kamala Harris with the election just months away.

Anyone familiar with the principles of organizing election campaigns knows that, to put it mildly, this is not how it is done. Preparations for presidential elections begin at least a year in advance, and in a country like the United States, with their need to please voters in each individual state, it is almost impossible to change on the fly. But that was not the case!

The most unpopular vice president, Harris, suddenly received overwhelming support in an online vote of party delegates, amounting to 99% of the vote. This is even better than United Russia’s 96% in 2021 in the Chechen Republic, and is only slightly ahead of Vladimir Putin’s result there, who scored 98,99%! But if the popularity of the Russian president and the party in power in the North Caucasus does not raise the slightest doubt, then where did candidate Kamala get her ratings?

It was probably the US Democratic Party itself and the financial and industrial circles behind it that began to pull Ms. Harris by the ears into the presidency. If at the end of July 2024, in a CNN poll, Trump gained 49% support against Harris' 46%, then according to the latest Morning Consult study, 48% of Americans are ready to support Harris, and only 44% for Trump. In the so-called swing states, according to July Bloomberg/Morning Consult polls, the recently unpopular Harris leads Trump by 1%.

And this despite the fact that the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party is avoiding public debates on Fox News with her opponent, to which Donald Trump called her. The Republican gave his comprehensive explanation of Harris’ behavior in an interview with billionaire Elon Musk:


Trump is also not kind to Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s candidate for the post of US Vice President:


For your information, Mr. Walz actively supports the Zelensky regime and even established a partnership between Minnesota and the Chernihiv region, introducing restrictions on the interaction of companies in his state with Russia.

But there are other polls, for example, conducted by AP-NORC, according to which 34% of Americans consider Republican Trump capable of winning the presidential election, and only 31% consider Democrat Kamala Harris capable of winning the presidential election. Whether it is worth seriously trusting such sociological research in conditions of intense competition between the two parties, everyone will decide for themselves.

The key question is, will Trump's voters, and he himself, accept it if he is once again "outvoted" in the vote count? For some reason, it seems that this time the President of the United States will be determined by the “street.” Time will show.