The party platform approved by Democrats this week focuses far more on attacking former President Donald Trump than on their 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris and what she plans to do, if elected.
The 92-page platform approved this week at the Democratic National Convention contains 150 mentions of “Trump” – five times more than its 32 mentions of “Harris.”
The word “Biden” appears 287 times, or nine times more than “Harris,” partially because Democrats didn’t bother to change the document’s text after Pres. Joe Biden dropped out of the race, leaving Harris to be the party’s nominee.
Biden’s “second term” is referenced 19 times. And, one sentence explicitly declares the race to be between Biden and Trump:
“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.”
“MAGA” – short for “Make America Great Again” – is referenced with disdain on 17 occasions.
As for Democrats’ legislative agenda, the platform has 10 mentions of the types of bills they hope “to pass” if their candidate is in the White House. Four of the seven bills cited by name support either illegal immigration or unions:
- “Democrats will keep fighting to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.”
- “We’ll work to pass the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.”
- “We’ll keep pushing to pass an updated Glass-Steagall Act.”
- “Democrats will work to pass the bipartisan Disaster Resilience Tax Credit.”
- “Democrats will work to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.”
- “Supporting a pathway for long-term undocumented individuals, improving the work authorization process, and securing the future of the DACA program.”
- “President Biden has also called on Democrats and Republicans to pass bipartisan legislation to promote competition and privacy in the tech industry.”