The vice president's campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday.
The vice president's campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday.
Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough delegate votes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday, though the results are not yet official.
The DNC will not make an official announcement of results until Monday evening, when the virtual voting process closes for delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention.
If anyone wants to know why they didn't wait until the DNC: Ohio has made the really shitty decision to attempt to fuck over the Democrats by requiring all candidates to be on the ballot by August 7th. They didn't let Ohio fuck them over.
I just want to highlight how shitty Ohio is being here because FlyingSquid isn't technically correct. Ohio has made the decision to extend the timeline... in a law that will take effect after the current deadline passes which is almost certainly an effort to rug-pull the new rules in the window between those two dates.
Ohio is being a bunch of fucking ass hats and everybody absolutely needs to know it.
To be fair Ohio has had an early August deadline for something like a decade? They've just always passed an extension. Because both parties have busted that deadline at times.
This time they are specifically choosing to try and screw with the democrats.
Nothing sarcastic about it. She is both. She is black and Indian. Her father was from Jamaica, her mother was from India. I'm sure she is proud of being multiracial.
But more importantly, she's American. And her opponents will question that. Don't let them get away with it.
Edit: That said, is she also the first presidential candidate with two foreign-born parents? Does anyone know?
Just so you know, Faux Spews and conservatives on twatter are very concerned that Democrats' freedom of choice is being trampled on. There was a coup to oust Biden and the "deep state" just appointed Kamala. I mean yeah but also..nah. a little introspection too, my gosh.
There may not be many holdouts, since it is virtual they are doing it all in a strict order and giving delegations more time than they usually do at the convention. It could be that they just got to the point in the roll call where they have enough votes for Harris to get the majority.
I read somewhere that since no other candidate met the requirements to be considered, no other candidate is involved. People who don't vote for Harris will have to vote "Present".
No. He didn't even win by any sort of thin margin.
The closest anyone even got to him was Dean Phillips got 19% in New Hampshire. I guess he spent his entire time campaigning there. Even state with the highest 'uncommitted' protest votes only got those up to 29.1%.
Some people here really don't like it, but Biden was going to be the nominee. So I'm glad he ended up dropping out and it's going to be Harris instead because it sure as hell wasn't going to be Dean Phillips.
(I will say that if you include American Samoa in this, Jason Palmer got 56% of the vote.)
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