Democrat Party Platform Calls For Reelection Of President Joe Biden For Second Term

On Monday, the Democratic National Committee released the 2024 Democratic Party Platform ahead of the DNC in Chicago this week. The platform, which outlines the party's various policy goals and principles, seemed to make one major error, however. It calls for President Joe Biden to be reelected to a second term despite dropping out of the race over a month ago.

The platform erroneously lays out the goals of a second Biden term on at least 19 separate occasions throughout the 91-page document. "President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job," the platform reads. The errors outlining "President Biden's second term" occur throughout the document, including on pages 47, 50, 69, 74, and 75.

"In the just released Democrat Party platform, "Biden's second term" appears a grand total of 19 times. It's hilarious incompetence but it's also the truth," the Trump campaign wrote in response to the error. "Kamala's presidency would be a Biden second term. A continuation of his broken economy, broken border, and broken world."

The document, which is divided into 11 chapters, opens with a "Land Acknowledgement" explaining that Democrats are meeting on land previously "stewarded" by the ancestors and descendants of various Tribal nations. "We honor the communities native to this continent and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals," the first page of the report reads.

The agenda, allegedly finalized in mid-July before Biden exited the race, argues that Trump is running to enrich his "Mar-a-Lago" friends and that Biden is running to protect working-class Americans. "This election is a choice between two very different economic visions for America: Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club at Mar-a-Lago; and Joe Biden, who sees it from kitchen tables in Scranton like the one he grew up around."

The platform also fails to mention any of Vice President Kamala Harris' economic proposals that have caused controversy over the past few days. As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, the Harris campaign claimed that taking on high grocery prices, created by the trillions of dollars of spending passed during the Biden-Harris administration, would be a major priority in Harris' first 100 days as president. The campaign proposed that it would institute "the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries—setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can't unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries." The campaign also proposed a $6,000 per child tax credit and a $25,000 downpayment for first-time homebuyers. 

While failing to mention these signature economic policies, the platform does outline how Biden has gone after companies that allegedly price gouge. "President Biden's lowering costs agenda is historic in scope, attacking the issue from every angle to help cut costs for consumers, crack down on price gouging, and get companies to use their record profits to reduce prices long-term," the platform says.

The Democratic Party Platform is a window into the party's left-wing radicalism, and the repeated error that pushes for a Biden second term highlights the unprecedented coup against a sitting president by his own party. The Democrats will try to honor President Biden on the first night of the convention by thanking him for his years of service and his willingness to exit the race. Nevertheless, if the Democrats wanted to honor Biden, they would have respected the votes of the Democratic primary voters and allowed the president to stay in the race rather than forcing him out.

Read the full Democratic Party Platform here.

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