Trump Received Far More Votes in the 2020 Democratic Primary Than Kamala Harris

Former President Donald Trump received considerably more votes in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries as a write-in candidate than Vice President Kamala Harris, who sought the party’s nomination but dropped out before the first primary election, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.

Harris on Monday secured enough verbal commitments from Democratic National Convention delegates to secure the presidential nomination for her party, despite never winning a delegate in an election and only getting 844 voters in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to 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.

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

Trump received all his Democratic primary write-in votes in the New Hampshire and Pennsylvania elections, according to FEC data.

Republicans have widely criticized the Democratic Party’s swift consolidation around Harris as undemocratic. (Read more from “Trump Received Far More Votes in the 2020 Democratic Primary Than Kamala Harris” HERE)

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