The vice president's campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday.

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.

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    Just so you know, Faux Spews and conservatives on twatter are very concerned that Democrats’ freedom of choice is being trampled on. There was a coup to oust Biden and the “deep state” just appointed Kamala. I mean yeah but also…nah. a little introspection too, my gosh.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Nothing sarcastic about it. She is both. She is black and Indian. Her father was from Jamaica, her mother was from India. I’m sure she is proud of being multiracial.

        But more importantly, she’s American. And her opponents will question that. Don’t let them get away with it.

        Edit: That said, is she also the first presidential candidate with two foreign-born parents? Does anyone know?

        • hope@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          One could be a annoying and insist that until John Quincy Adams no president had any non-foreign-born parents.

          But more seriously, both of Andrew Jackson’s parents were born in Northern Ireland.

          Edit: and Van Buren’s parents were Dutch.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If anyone wants to know why they didn’t wait until the DNC: Ohio has made the really shitty decision to attempt to fuck over the Democrats by requiring all candidates to be on the ballot by August 7th. They didn’t let Ohio fuck them over.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I just want to highlight how shitty Ohio is being here because FlyingSquid isn’t technically correct. Ohio has made the decision to extend the timeline… in a law that will take effect after the current deadline passes which is almost certainly an effort to rug-pull the new rules in the window between those two dates.

      Ohio is being a bunch of fucking ass hats and everybody absolutely needs to know it.