US Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she leaves to return to Washington at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, the United States, on August 1, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison announced Friday that enough delegates had been won to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, but the results have not yet been officially announced.
The Democratic National Committee won’t officially announce the results until Monday night, when the virtual voting process for delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention ends.
“I will formally accept your nomination next week once the virtual voting process is over, but I’m pleased to know we have enough delegates to secure the nomination,” Harris said during a call with supporters of her campaign’s announcement.
Harris will become the first black woman and Indian American to win a major party’s presidential nomination in U.S. history.
Representatives of the Democratic Party are convening Unusual pre-conference virtual voting To finalize their nominations prior to nomination Ballot access deadline It will be held in Ohio next week, ahead of the party’s national convention opening in Chicago on August 19. Plan formal selection Their presidential candidates have been doing this since May, long before Biden withdrew his re-election bid.
Harris is Run unopposed She secured the Democratic nomination after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid last month and endorsed her. Democrats instituted a new lightning-fast nominating process that allowed other candidates to compete, but no major Democrats entered the race, and unknown candidates who filed nomination papers failed to gain enough support to qualify for internal voting.
Virtual voting for about 4,700 convention delegates began Thursday morning and is not expected to end until 6 p.m. ET on Monday. Harris’ campaign said that in just over a day, she received more than 2,350 votes needed to clinch the nomination. Once a delegate votes, they cannot change their vote.
Under the party’s newly adopted rules, delegates will take “ceremonial and confirmatory” roll-call votes in person at the convention, but nominations will be officially announced after virtual voting closes next week.
