The Democratic National Convention (DNC) began a virtual roll call on Thursday to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the convention scheduled for late August.
The swift vote, expected to be completed by Monday, underscores how quickly Democrats have moved to elect Harris, who has never won a presidential primary vote in her political career.
Harris withdrew from the 2020 presidential race before the Iowa caucuses and did not run in 2024 until President Joe Biden endorsed her. Some speculated Biden’s endorsement of Harris was an attempt to get revenge after party officials threatened to remove her from the race under the 25th Amendment.
Harris is the only candidate eligible The Associated Press reported that the party plans to accept votes after concluding its qualification process on Tuesday.
Representative Democratic National Convention The process begins Thursday, and they will formally select the presidential candidates. But unlike in years past, they won’t do so in the raucous party atmosphere of the convention hall, or even during the convention. Instead, they’ll be quietly filling out their electronic ballots from the comfort of their homes, offices or vacation destinations, more than two weeks before the first delegates step foot into Chicago’s United Center.
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Under new procedures adopted by the convention’s rules committee in late July, candidates must announce their intention to seek the presidential nomination by July 27 and submit the signatures of the 300 delegates needed for a roll-call vote by Tuesday night. Harris submitted the signatures of 3,923 delegates, about 84% of the total delegates and 99% of those who signed petitions, according to a statement from the Democratic National Committee.
The Democratic National Committee will nominate Harris as the candidate, as both the Democratic and Republican parties are plotting her candidacy. Her campaign is trying to portray her as the “liberal” candidate by bashing Biden’s “democratic” jargon, while Republicans are reporting on her past policy positions.
GavTrack’s scorecard ranked Harris as the most liberal senator in 2019, further to the left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). But GavTrack retracted its report in July, noting that its conclusions were drawn from “one calendar year” of data that was “insufficient to paint a reliable portrait of a senator’s activity.”
“Yes, I’m a radical,” Harris acknowledged at a public event at Google in 2010.
A list of Harris’ radical record can be found here.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
