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A Divided Party Amid Grand Speech of Michelle Obama
The Democratic Party is facing a challenging election season, with Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, and the Clintons delivering their grand speeches at the convention. The Obamas, who began with a strong message about Joe Biden as one of their first and best choices, have been criticized for being too old, too white, and associated with the pre-Obama Democratic Party establishment. However, Michelle Obama has always been a fan of Harris, calling her the “best-looking attorney general in the country.” The campaign process has been criticized for treating all whites as advantaged and all minorities as disadvantaged, regardless of their individual circumstances.
Sanders’ Consistent Critique of Economic Inequality
Republicans are lucky that Michelle Obama is allergic to the indignities of the modern campaign process, as Democrats would likely unite behind her and walk barefoot over broken glass to elect her. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders missed the memo about the Biden-Harris administration’s economic success story. Speaking at the United Center, Sanders emphasized the need for an economy that works for all Americans, not just the greed of the billionaire class. He argued that while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the top 1 percent have never had it so good.
Sanders’s assessment of the economy is always the same, whether unemployment is low or high, whether inflation is low or high, or whether interest rates are low or high. He sandwiched this familiar dire assessment of the American economy between his early remarks crediting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for helping unemployed Americans, offering more health coverage, and expanding the child tax credit, and his closing assessment that “in the last three-and-a-half years, working together, we have accomplished more than any government since FDR.”
Pritzker’s Contradictions and the Influence of Big Money
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Some people might conclude that there’s a contradiction there or that the “accomplishments” Sanders keeps touting are making economic conditions worse. In conclusion, the Democratic Party faces challenges in addressing the issues of great wealth, economic inequality, and the challenges faced by the working class and the wealthy. Bernie Sanders and J.B. Pritzker have been criticized for their differing views on foreign news. Sanders called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, while Pritzker compared Donald Trump to a billionaire with a net worth of $3.5 billion and spent $350 million on his two races combined.
Pritzker’s communications team in the 2018 governor’s race was larger than any newsroom in the Midwest, spending roughly $313,000 each day of the campaign. Sanders had previously stated that the top priority for Democrats is to get big money out of the political process, insisting that billionaires should not be able to buy elections, including primary elections. Democratic delegates applauded both lines and saw no contradiction between Pritzker boasting about being “an actual billionaire” and Sanders insisting that billionaires should not be able to buy elections.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Mixed Reception
Pritzker was followed by Ken Chenault, the CEO of American Express for 17 years and currently the chairman of the global venture-capital firm General Catalyst. There is reason to believe that some scheduler at the Democratic National Convention was trying to make Bernie Sanders’s head explode. The issue of the Biden-Harris administration has been a topic of debate among Democrats, with some questioning whether she is the Ukraine hawk who some people believe she is and why Donald Trump should be denouncing a failed Biden-Harris administration rather than a “failed nation.”