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.
I wonder who the hold outs are. And why.
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”.
Were there any states that held primaries where Biden didn’t win?
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.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries#Major_candidates
I’ve never heard of Jason Palmer before, but I can guess where he inexplicably spent the majority of his time campaigning.
You probably shouldn’t, since American Samoans are “non-citizen US nationals” and can’t vote in the Presidential general election anyway.
I have to give Dean Phillips some credit, he probably saw that Biden was starting to show his age and at least tried to get some attention on it. The debate was the tipping point for many (I know it was for me). If we had a debate earlier in the process then maybe we all could have come to this conclusion sooner.
Honestly, dropping out this late was kind of a genius move, even if it was unintentional. The Trump campaign is twisting in the wind. They were all in to fight Biden. Now it’s an old man against a woman who isn’t young, but also doesn’t look 59, and is clearly just far more intelligent and far more just cognitively able than Trump.
And the best attack Trump has been able to come up with is “she turned black all of a sudden.” Which he said to a bunch of black people.
Right? Kamala looks like she’s mid 40s. She’s aging pretty good.
Not to stereotype, but people say “black don’t crack” for a reason.
You’re giving way too much credit to the piece of shit that is Dean Phillips.
The “uncommitted” who withheld nominations for Biden on the grounds that we are supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestine.