Kamala Harris, the incumbent Vice President of the United States, has attracted enough votes from delegates to the Democratic National Convention to secure the presidential nomination.
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The Washington Post reported this today, August 2.
It is noted that more than 4,000 convention delegates still had several days to submit their ballots, but no other candidate was able to provide worthy competition to Harris, which made her choice almost certain.
The day before, this was announced by the head of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, Jamie Garrison, who noted that Harris crossed the required threshold only a day after the start of online voting. However, voting will be open until August 5, after which Harris will officially become a presidential candidate.
The fact that we can say today, just one day after voting opened, that the Vice President has crossed the majority threshold and will officially become our nominee next week, my friends, is simply remarkable,” Harrison said.
After incumbent US President Joe Biden unexpectedly announced on July 21 that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Harris, Democratic Party leaders rushed to create a nominating process that would not depend on the Biden primary.
The new nomination contest allowed someone to run if they received 300 signatures from delegates in support of their candidacy and met other basic requirements. However, no leading Democratic Party member other than Harris ran, and candidates who had announced their intention to seek the nomination failed to collect the required number of signatures.
Harris, a black and Native American woman, becomes only the second non-white person in U.S. history to lead a major presidential ticket, after Barack Obama in 2008. Harris will also be the second woman to be nominated by a major party, after Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Source: The Washington Post
Kamala Harris has won enough votes to run for US President
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