‘He Has Unified The Democratic Party’: CNN Correspondent Says Feelings For Trump Made Dems Accept Harris ‘Coronation’

CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny said on Friday that Democrats’ feelings about former President Donald Trump unified them in approving Vice President Harris as their presumptive nominee without backlash.

Harris secured enough delegates on Friday to garner the Democratic Party’s nomination to be President during a virtual roll call process organized by the Democratic National Committee, with nearly no primary voter approval. Zeleny, on “CNN News Central,” said even President Joe Biden voters he spoke to in Michigan made no mention of “a coronation” because of Trump unifying the party.

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“I was in Michigan this week talking to a lot of voters and there was no talk of a coronation, even among Joe Biden super fans,” Zeleny said. “And the reason for that is Donald Trump. He has unified the Democratic party.”

“What is happening now is Democrats look more like Republicans in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago,” he added. “They seem unified, which is not normally how this party has been, certainly in terms of policy and things, but I have not really picked up any whiff of talk of coronation. Privately, perhaps by some people who might have thrown their hat into the ring, but … there’s no one else on the ballot. That happened in an instant that Sunday.”

Progressive Wisconsin voters on MSNBC recently voiced their disapproval with the process leading to Harris becoming the de facto Democratic nominee, but said they would vote for her to be president anyway.