Kamala Harris never won a single primary vote in 2024.
Now Jen Psaki is on MS NOW telling voters the Democrat Party would never choose a nominee that way.
She described it word for word – and she doesn't realize what she just admitted.
What Psaki Said – and What Actually Happened
In a recent clip that racked up nearly 800,000 views on X, the former Biden White House press secretary delivered a passionate defense of the 2028 Democratic primary process.
"There is no, thank God, dark room in Washington where people sit around and they decide here's who the nominee is going to be," Psaki said, gesturing emphatically. "That's not how democracy works."
She just described 2024 to a T.
On July 21, 2024, Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from the presidential race – and immediately handed his endorsement to Kamala Harris. He hadn't lost a single primary. No challenger had beaten him. Biden simply pointed at his vice president and said, "Her."
Within days, over 3,000 of the party's 4,000 pledged delegates fell in line behind Harris. Not a single credible challenger stepped forward. Gavin Newsom, who had spent months positioning himself as a future contender, endorsed Harris before the weekend was over. The deadline for challengers to qualify for the ballot came and went on July 30 with zero candidates meeting the threshold.
The roll call was a formality. Harris was the only name on the ballot. She received 99% of delegate votes in a virtual process that wrapped up August 6 – six weeks before the convention even opened.
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Nancy Pelosi's Phone Call
The "dark room" story gets worse.
Multiple reports identified Nancy Pelosi as the key power broker who delivered Biden the message that his time was up. According to Democratic insiders cited in contemporaneous reporting, a phone call to Biden – who was isolating at his Delaware home after a COVID-19 diagnosis – was the decisive moment. Pelosi allegedly warned him that damaging internal polling would be made public if he stayed in the race.
Biden announced his withdrawal days later.
Pelosi denied the ultimatum. Then she acknowledged she hadn't spoken to Biden since he dropped out. Two longtime allies of 50-plus years – suddenly silent with each other after one of the most consequential decisions in modern Democratic politics.
That's not a dark room. That's a phone call. But the result was identical.
The Bernie Pattern
This was not the first time Democrats engineered a nomination outcome.
Bernie Sanders supporters watched in 2016 as the DNC – exposed by leaked emails – had placed its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton during the primary process. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned over the fallout. Party officials were forced to apologize.
Eight years later, the party didn't even bother with the primary stage. They waited until the incumbent dropped out, moved the delegates as a bloc, sealed the ballot before challengers could organize, and called it democracy.
What This Means for 2028
Psaki made these comments in the context of 2028 – and the irony is now permanently on the internet.
Thirty candidates might run, she promised. The voters will decide. Barack Obama is "leaving space" for the process to work.
Democrats said the same things in 2023. Fourteen million people voted in their 2024 primary – for Biden. Then the party decided those 14 million votes didn't count and handed the nomination to someone who received zero.
The 65 million Americans who voted for Kamala Harris in November never got to choose her in the first place. They were handed a candidate selected by party insiders operating at the highest levels of Washington – and then told this is how democracy works.
Jen Psaki just proved she either doesn't know that or doesn't care.
Sources:
- "The DNC's virtual roll call to nominate Kamala Harris started Aug. 1," CBS News, August 2, 2024.
- "DNC virtual roll call vote ends with Kamala Harris receiving 99% of delegate votes," CBS News, August 6, 2024.
- "Harris is only candidate on virtual roll call for Democratic presidential nominee," The Washington Post, July 31, 2024.
- "Nancy Pelosi helped pressure Joe Biden to end his 2024 campaign," NBC News, July 23, 2024.
- "Pelosi hasn't spoken to Biden since he ended reelection bid," Washington Examiner, 2024.










