5 notable provisions in the Democratic Party platform
1. Assumed Biden would be the Democratic nominee
The Democratic Party Platform was released Sunday, nearly a month after Biden dropped out of the race and Harris was installed as the presumptive nominee but the language of the document does not reflect this development.
Biden’s name is mentioned a total of 287 times in the document. Many of the references consist of details about the Biden administration’s record. However, the beginning of the document includes a sentence declaring, “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job.”
“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 states.
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The document also mentions the prospect of a “second Biden term” and vows that “Under President Biden’s plan, no American earning less than $400,000 a year will pay one single penny more in federal taxes, period.”
In addition to insisting that “President Biden’s plans will cut taxes for middle-class and low-income Americans,” the platform includes pledges that “Biden will raise that [corporate] tax rate back to 28 percent” and “Biden will double the tax rate that American multinational corporations pay on foreign earnings to 21 percent.”
“President Biden’s plan will let families go three years without having to resubmit Medicaid paperwork for children younger than [6], reducing burdensome red tape,” the platform asserts. “President Biden will keep calling [grocery and gas] companies out for price gouging, and hold them accountable when they don’t pass savings on to consumers.”
The platform also insists that “President Biden will continue to appoint justices and judges across the federal bench who are like Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson: brilliant jurists committed to defending American rights and freedoms.”
It adds, “In President Biden’s second term, he will continue selecting judges who will protect fundamental rights and who represent the diversity of the American experience.”
“President Biden will sign the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act to fully secure the right to vote in every state, ensure fair congressional maps for every American, modernize and secure our elections, and curtail the corrupting influence of money in politics,” the document proclaims. “In President Biden’s second term, he will push Congress to pass [immigration] legislation that is consistent with our values as a nation.”
The prospect of a “second term” for Biden is discussed nearly 20 times throughout the platform. Harris’ name is mentioned 32 times.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
