The DNC will nominate and confirm Kamala Harris as the official Democrat nominee for President on Thursday.
Kamala Harris is the only candidate on the DNC party nomination ballot – her win is assured. However, unless something radically changes in the next 24 hours, not likely, there will be no vice-presidential nominee on the official DNC nomination ticket. Apparently, it looks like the DNC is choosing to use the convention in Chicago, as the opportunity to announce and celebrate the appointed Vice-Presidential nominee.
Politico has some of the details, but the big picture is as above:
WASHINGTON – Kamala Harris will be the only candidate on the Democratic National Committee’s virtual roll call ballot for president, cementing her status as the party’s all-but-certain nominee.
Convention delegates will begin voting on Harris’ nomination on Thursday and finish by Aug. 5, according to a statement released by the DNC Tuesday night. The vice president secured support from 3,923 delegates to appear on the virtual ballot.
Harris’ expected nomination next week marks the end of a dramatic and condensed process that immediately elevated the vice president after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race on July 21. Less than 10 days later, Harris has cleared the field, and her name will be the only one placed in nomination.
Three other candidates filed with the DNC, but they failed to collect 300 delegate signatures necessary to gain access to the virtual ballot.
Harris, Biden’s chosen successor, benefited from the compressed timeline. Within 24 hours of announcing her own run, a cascade of Democratic officials, donors and activists backed her candidacy, and no serious candidates challenged her bid. The DNC’s push for a virtual roll call — aimed at avoiding a Republican-backed legal challenge for ballot access in Ohio — also helped speed up the process.
Automatic delegates — traditionally referred to as superdelegates — will vote on the first ballot, since Harris “has the verified support of a number of pledged delegates equal to or greater than a majority of all pledged and automatic delegates,” the statement said. (read more)
The Obama-inspired DNC usurpation of ‘Democracy’ will have been achieved. Not a single 2024 primary voter voted for Kamala Harris, the party insiders have selected the nominee for the entire country of Democrats. Tell me again about this “defending democracy” narrative.
This process aligns with an interview that James Carville gave last Sunday. As much as people do not like the guy, me included, it is really something to listen to him tell the interviewer how the system within the private club of the DNC operates and the gleeful expressions Carville exclaims. WATCH (prompted):