Black Lives Matter Criticized Harris Endorsement Called Dems "Oligarchs"
Video Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: There was a general consensus to go with Kamala Harris Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., discusses endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris on Your World. The left-wing organization Black Lives Matter is resisting the installation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee and are calling on the Democratic National Convention "to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates." In a statement Tuesday, the group, which rose to prominence in 2020 for organizing nationwide protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, said that "a 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of." For weeks after his disastrous debate performance last month, internal party pressure mounted against President Joe Biden to drop out of the race — though he resisted those calls and insisted he was