Trump received far more votes in the 2020 Democratic primary than Kamala Harris

Former President Donald Trump received significantly more votes in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as a write-in candidate than Vice President Kamala Harris, who sought the party's nomination but withdrew before the first primary election, shows the records of the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC).

Harris secured enough verbal commitments from delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Monday to secure his party's presidential nomination, despite never having won a delegate in an election and polling just 844 votes in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. seconds in the FEC records. Former President Donald Trump, despite not running for the Democratic nomination, received 3,793 write-in votes in the party's 2020 presidential primary.

Although Harris dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in December 2019, she still appeared on the Democratic primary ballot in New Hampshire on February 11, 2020, and in Arkansas, which held its primary on March 3. Harris received zero write-in votes in the California primary on March 3, 2020, despite being his home state.

According to FEC data, Trump received all of his write-in votes in the Democratic primaries in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

Republicans have widely criticized the rapid consolidation of the Democratic Party around Harris as undemocratic.

“The idea of ​​selecting the nominee of the Democratic Party because George Soros and Barack Obama and a couple of elite Democrats walked into a smoke-filled room and decided to throw Joe Biden overboard? That's not how it works,” he said. Ohio Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance told the New York Post on Monday. reported. He said Democratic leadership installing Harris as their nominee without voter input was a “threat to democracy.”

Harris was polling at an average of 3% when he dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary, seconds in Roll Call. He cited a lack of financial resources at the time. After the California primary on March 3, 2020, Harris endorsed then-candidate Joe Biden, who selected her as his running mate later that year.

“Kamala Harris is every bit as weak, failed, and incompetent as Joe Biden, and she's also dangerously liberal. Not only does Kamala have to defend her support of Joe Biden's failed agenda for the past four years, but she also has to answer for his terrible record of crime in California,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller. News Foundation. “A vote for Kamala is a vote for more crime, inflation, open borders, high gas prices and war around the world, and our team will make sure every American knows it.”

surveys done since Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris on Sunday, which shows no clear leader between the vice president and Trump.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to DCNF's request for comment.

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