As minutes passed after President Biden announced he was dropping out of the race, Democrats en masse joined Senator Chris Coons of Delaware in endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, including the political action committee representing the Congressional Black Caucus, Reps. Adam Schiff of California, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, James Clyburn of South Carolina, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Patty Murray of Washington, Mark Warner of Virginia, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Tim Kaine of Virginia, and LaFonza Butler of California.
But Harris cannot be nominated as the party’s candidate, given that the primaries are now over and Biden, not Harris, has collected the number of delegates needed to be the Democratic presidential nominee. Biden, however, has not yet been nominated for 2024, a process normally decided at party conventions.
About 3,900 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are now being asked to choose their party’s nominee, and roughly 99% of those who have pledged to support Biden no longer have to do so.
Another candidate could still come forward to challenge Harris, vying for delegate support at the convention starting on August 19, setting up a number of different scenarios that could play out, with a plenary vote likely to determine the winner at the convention. But if pledged delegates endorse Harris and vote to make her the nominee on the first ballot at the convention, the nomination race would be over quickly.
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