The 2024 Democratic Party platform features a lot of Joe Biden, and a lot of Donald Trump

CNN —

The Democratic Party’s proposed platform, released Sunday on the eve of the Chicago convention, is full of contrasts between former President Donald Trump and the old Democratic nominee.

The 92-page nonbinding document, which outlines the Democratic National Committee’s priorities for the next four years, will be voted on by delegates at the party’s national convention on Monday. But it hasn’t been updated since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him.

“President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job,” the platform’s preamble says.

Platforms, which lay out the goals and policies the party broadly supports, are typically crafted to mirror the priorities of their presidential nominees. However, Harris officially locked down the Democratic nomination in late July — and only began laying out the details of her policy agenda with the rollout of an economic platform in North Carolina on Friday.

Her campaign has already disavowed some of the more progressive positions she took as a presidential candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary. And because the platform released Sunday night was built for a Biden reelection campaign, it’s not clear whether Harris will support every tenet.

Trump pointed to the repeated references in the platform in a Truth Social post on Monday, claiming, “It shows that the Platform is not that important to them when they won’t even make the change.”

Trump campaign spokesman Dylan Johnson argued in a statement earlier in the day that the mentions are “an open admission that Kamala has no policies of her own. She has no plan to fix the litany of crises she’s created.”

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