NEW MONTH. NEW POST. We are now in the dogs days of summer 'cause August is when things get really, really hot. Though how appropriate that the first Saturday in August is when WWE presents SummerSlam, then the weekend after that is D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event? KlicKNet is devoted to coverage the latter with three LIVE episodes of FakeTV Box beginning next Friday at 4PM EST, we'll get into more details about that later; normally we would intro the 5-Day Rounder right about now, but that segment will return later this month, or perhaps in September. We're starting things off today with the Sneak Peek of the Week, this one's regarding Universal Epic Universe, which is set to open next summer in 2025. Universal Orlando has broken down each of the 5 lands that make up Epic Universe with their own videos on YouTube; this week was all about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic.
Before we go any further, I am happy announce that starting this Monday, August 5th, we are bringing back the legendary Daily Posts for one week only to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this blog. If you need a reminder of what the schedule looks like, take a look down below.
Our Inside Scoop this week is about the 2024 Presidential Election, and the last time we wrote about politics, things were in complete chaos. Last month Donald Trump got shot at one of his own rallies, and yet he still attended the Republican National Convention and accepted the GOP Nomination. Last month, Democrats were calling for President Joe Biden to drop out the race, which he did, and the moment I found out on social media, the only thing I could think about afterwards is how screwed we are as country. President Biden wrote in a social media statement on July 21 the withdrawal of campaign to be re-elected as President for a second term. Biden had announced that he would run for re-election on April 25, 2023, with Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate again. Biden won an overwhelming majority of delegates in the 2024 Democratic presidential primaries and was already considered the presumptive nominee before the primaries were over. But public concerns about Biden's age and health had emerged during his presidency, mostly because his fitness for the office and ability to carry out a second term.
Then to make things worse, Biden failed to keep up with Trump in the first presidential debate back in June. He was was widely criticized for performance, with commentators noting "that he frequently lost his train of thought and gave meandering answers, had a faltering appearance, spoke with a hoarse voice, and failed to recall statistics or coherently express his opinion on several occasions." Ouch! Tough words to say about our current commander-in-chief, and I thought my family was verbally abusive! Biden was faced with calls to withdraw from the race from fellow Democrats and from editorial boards of major news outlets, and by July 19, more than 30 senior Democrats had called for him to withdraw. Two days later, he would agree to drop out all while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement as the Democratic party's candidate in the 2024 election.
When I first heard that piece of news, I though to myself: "Well as least the Democrats have found someone to replace Biden on such short notice, it's just a shame that her chances at winning the election are even worse than Biden's." Some believed in previous months that Trump would still win if Kamala Harris were to take Biden's place, but in the past two weeks, we have seen something so beautiful, so magical, that it needs to be studied for the next few paragraphs of this piece that I'm writing. Kamala's campaign started the same day Biden had dropped out, she announced her intention to run for the Democratic nomination, and the "Biden for President" campaign committee had filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to change the name of the committee to "Harris for President," so it didn't take them, you should see the campaign emails that they've sent me since. The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue reported raising more than $50 million, which is its largest donation day since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, no shortage of coincidence right there.
In the first 24 hours of Harris's candidacy, the presidential campaign raised $81 million in small-dollar donations, the highest single-day total of any presidential candidate in history. Two days later on July 23rd, Harris held her first campaign rally at the West Allis Central High School gymnasium in the West Allis suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Republican National Convention was held a week earlier. The event reportedly grew a larger audience than any event held by Biden's 2024 campaign, I can't tell you how many people showed because I don't know how many people. Kamala's campaign slogan is"Together, we can win this! When we Fight, we Win; We're not going back." Also, she is currently using one of Beyoncé's songs called "Freedom" as the official song for her campaign, having obtained permission from Parkwood Entertainment on the day of her first rally. During her first rally in West Allis, Harris would frame her campaign as "a choice between freedom and chaos" and base it around the ideals of "freedom" and "the future". The Harris campaign soughts to highlight her experience as an attorney general and a prosecutor to "prosecute the case" against Donald Trump by pointing out his 34 felony convictions from the New York Hush Money Trial back in May.
The Democratic Party had quickly coalesced around Kamala Harris following President Biden's withdrawal and his endorsement of Harris, it's been like a virus that you would actually want to catch unlike COVID-19. Pretty much every Democratic governors has endorsed Harris, as well as the vast majority of Congressional Democrats, including senior officials such as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former Speaker and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. on July 26, former President Barack Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, endorsed Harris in a joint statement, other endorsements come from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Charlie XCX, Jamie Lee Curtis, Megan Thee Stallion, Viola Davis, March For Our Lives, Gen-Z for Change, the Writers Guild of America West PAC, the United Auto Workers, the United Farm Workers, is that even a thing, and the man who grilled Joe Biden the most outta dropping out, George Clooney. I can name a train load of more people and organizations who have endorsed to Kamala Harris to be the next president in the past two weeks, but we gotta move on.
On July 22, Harris received enough state delegate endorsements to win the nomination and become the presumptive nominee, and while the endorsements were non-binding until the party's formal vote, CNN estimated that she would have secured enough delegates to win the nomination. True, true and so she has, for just yesterday a majority of Democratic delegates voted to select Kamala Harris as the party's nominee for president in a virtual roll call vote which will end on Monday, but the bottom line is that his will 100% cement her status at the top of the ticket heading into November. Voting opened on Thursday for the party's more than 4,000 delegates to cast their ballots using an online form or over the phone. Harris needed to secure votes from 2,350 delegates to cross the threshold required for winning the nomination, and now she has them. So with the 2024 Democratic National Convention taking place on August 19th in Chicago, Illinois, Harris has focused her attention towards finding a running mate.
A large amount of people have gone on social media and said that they would like to see Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg be selected as her running mate, of course, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro have been the leading candidates, while Governor J. B. Pritzker of Illinois, Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota have also been reported to be on Harris's shortlist by various media outlets. I believe that Tim Walz is the one who called Donald Trump "weird" of course we all already know that since Trump always says the weirdest stuff all the time. I liked to point that North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper was considered to be in the mix of being Kamala's VP Selection, but he has recently withdraw in hopes of finding other ways to help Kamala win the election, that is almost as heroic as President Biden dropping out of the race. If you've noticed real carefully, some of the finalist come from a battleground state which could determine who wins the election in November. Harris has said she will announce her running mate on Tuesday, possibly at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, KlicKNet will be monitoring that event to what happens.
In conclusion, we have seen the Democratic Party gone from panic mode to happy hour, some like myself believe that Joe Biden dropping out would be the end of the world so to speak. Hours after he dropped, I posted a picture on Instagram of me wearing a blue striped shirt while standing in the middle of a subway station, all to show my support and endorsement to Kamala Harris. The assassination attempt of Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention a few weeks ago seemed like living proof that Trump's got this election in the bag, but the Democrats pulled a rabbit out of the hat and now they're confident that that rabbit can turn things around in their favor. By the way things are looking right now, the script has been flipped and now it'S Trump, MAGA, the GOP, and even Project 2025 who are in panic mode. We're two weeks away from seeing Vice President Kamala Harris become the first Black woman and first Asian American to be nominated for president by a major political party, there's already been a first black president in the United States, but Kamala Harris is in firm control of doing the impossible by not only become the first Asian-American president of the United States, but most of all the first female president of the United States.
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