In record time, the current Vice President of the United States has a gathered a strong enough majority of pledged Democratic delegates to win the nomination for President on the first ballot next month.
Kamala Harris’ home state of California and the Golden State’s more than 300 delegates to DNC ’24 in Chicago put her securely over the top earlier this evening. The VP now has another historical first in her sights. That new political reality comes on a very busy Day 1 of the Harris for President campaign and just over 36 hours after Joe Biden announced he was setting aside in the 2024 White House race.
“It is clear that Kamala Harris is going to have this nomination,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said tonight with clear joy on the very well attended “Black Men for Harris” call, as millions more were being raised for the candidate.
Frustration over the 81-year-old POTUS’ halting and stumbling June 27 debate performance and his seeming inability to see a path to victory against Donald Trump was a dead-end has dissipated almost instantly. Instead, after Biden said Sunday he was throwing his support behind his loyal VP, over $231 million has pored into the Dems efforts as formerly pens down donors started writing checks again, and small donors flooded the campaign.
At the same time, state delegates began Sunday gathering to offer their backing to the VP. Monday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the vote from the California delegation and the response was unanimous.
If Harris’ currently 2, 579 pledged delegates turn their promises into votes at the August 19 starting DNC, the Vice President will be the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to gain the nomination of a major American political party. In fact, the already history making first female VP and first Veep of color will be making history a little earlier as the Democrats‘ delegates will be voting in an already scheduled virtual roll call set to conclude on August 7.
That virtual call will seal who the party’s nominee is and, with potential rivals lining up one after another over the past 24 hour to make Madame Vice President into Madame President, that nominee is almost certain to be the former Senator from California Kamala Harris.
A candidate requires 1,976 of the total 3,936 DNC 2024 delegates to clinch the party’s nomination in the first round of voting. This does not include the 739 so-called superdelegates, made up of party elders, top elected officials and more, because they don’t vote on the first ballot.
Right now, the New York delegation has just finished voting, following the likes of Texas Democrats, as well as those from New Jersey and Nevada to got for Harris earlier Monday night.
The New York State Delegation proudly endorses @KamalaHarris as the Democratic nominee for President.
We’re going to finish the job Joe Biden started and send Trump packing in November. pic.twitter.com/xQctVmo4JS
— New York State Democratic Party (@nydems) July 23, 2024
One day into her 2024 campaign and with just over 100 days until the election, Vice President Harris has not yet revealed who her own VP pick is. However, some top Hollywood donors tells us that the likes of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina are being mention the most in deep pocket circles.
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