Harris secures enough delegate endorsements to win the Democratic presidential nomination
Harris secures enough delegate endorsements to win the Democratic presidential nomination
Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.
Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.
While endorsements from delegates continue to come in, the vice president has now been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates she’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot.
Harris crossed the threshold amid a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening.
78 year old Trump is running a 2016 campaign. Same old tired rhetoric. Harris is running an energetic 2024 campaign focused on a better future. Harris will dominate this weeks media cycles. Then the Olympics, then then the Dem convention. Harris and the dems will take all the oxygen away from the GOP until Labor Day.
Then, just 3 weeks after Labor Day, some states will begin early voting, and mail-in ballots will already be in some folks' hands.
59Yeess YAASSSS!
30This is the best summary I could come up with:
Harris crossed the threshold amid a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening.
These endorsements are not binding and with President Joe Biden out of the race, delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
Under a plan outlined by Democratic officials Monday, delegates are expected to vote virtually to confirm Harris as the nominee by August 7.
The Democratic National Committee has long made clear that it is committed to locking in its nominee before the in-person convention begins on August 19 – and specifically before August 7, which, it says, is critical to ensure ballot access in all states and avoid the risk of litigation.
She delivered a speech to staff, previewing her campaign argument against former President Donald Trump and detailing her experience as an attorney general and prosecutor.
The vice president said in her statement Monday that she will continue to travel across the country in the coming months “talking to Americans about everything that is on the line.
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4What do I need to become a delegate? $500 million?
-3Fuck off
I love what Harris has been doing with messaging so far but this predetermination of delegates bullshit just harkens back to Clinton.
Leave the determination until the fucking convention.
-55It's not official until the convention, but it's not hard to keep a tally of the number of delegates that have voluntarily endorsed her or said "she will get my vote". They're just reporting that the tally is high enough that she'll win if nothing changes. It's just....the news reporting stuff.
71If a delegate wants to tell CNN who they plan to vote for, they have the freedom to do that. They should have that freedom too, there is nothing wrong with it. Similarly, CNN should have the freedom to ask a delegate who they plan on voting for.
The rest is just making 2000 phone calls, which is what interns are for.
13Leave the determination until the fucking convention.
Under normal circumstances I would agree but in this case there's a dangerously abbreviated timeline involved. There simply isn't enough runway left for a candidate to take flight if they spend the next month dithering around in confusion.
10If you think that Biden backed down without having majority alignment on a new candidate in order to avoid intraparty battles just months before the election... then I think you're wrong.
5Delegates have been determined prior to the convention for as long as I can remember. That is the entire point of the primary.
In this case, the person who won the primary has withdrawn. The presumptive nominee is now the person who voters expected to be his VP pick; so they should have understood that their vote for Biden was a vote for Harris if something happens to Biden.
Additionally, Biden has endorsed Harris. Most of the delegates are pledge to support Biden. While they are technically free to vote their conscious, the argument of "I should support the person endorsed by the one I was sent here to support" is pretty persuasive. As is the argument of "no one is running against her"
The issue with Clinton was the presence of super delegates, who were not required to follow any primary election results. An open convention turns all delegates into super delegates.
5Everyone can see that you’ll just wait until the convention to make up more shit to get upset about.
You will whine about “predetermination” now but it will be something else if Kamala secures a nomination. You will never accept this nor anything else that is positive for democrats. You will find a reason to whine, your reasons are just excuses.
4That's a nice strawman you've got there. If you check my comments you'd see that's very much not the case but your blind faith in how you judge others must be very comforting and reassuring.
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This take makes. No. Sense.
We have only FOUR MONTHS until the election. The Biden-Harris campaign can share funds, campaign offices, staff & volunteers. There is absolutely no logistics to set that up in time for a new candidate.
Four months.
You are here just to whine and sow discord.
3Exactly! The party running on saving democracy already stole our ability to democratically select a candidate. At least they should be willing to present the appearance of an approximation of democracy. Somehow that's suddenly a radical position.
-26Just like in the actual presidential election, during the primary, you are voting for electors (delegates) who have pledged their votes to a candidate, and their votes are cast at the convention.
If that candidate leaves the race, those electors still get to vote their conscience. That is what you have entrusted them to do.
13It would be great if we had a system like that, but we never have and it is not part of the constitution. Political parties have always been allowed to choose any candidate by any means that they want to put on their ticket. They could even choose 2 people, but that would be a bad idea. This will continue to be true as long as we have first past the post elections (and the electoral college). Ranked choice voting would solve some of these problems.
The democratic election happens when we vote for the president. The primaries are basically large state by state polls. No one's ability to vote was stolen and everyone who votes is still allowed to write in a name if they choose (but that is akin to not voting given our current system).
8The Democratic party is a private organization and they can pick their candidate however they want. They could have Kim Jong-Un directly appoint their candidate if that's how they wanted to do candidate selection.
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