Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to officially become the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee when the delegates cast their votes next month.
Harris, who was forced to quit her 2020 presidential campaign before the voting started, will likely become the party’s nominee without ever having earned a single vote from Democrat voters.
The Associated Press reported that Harris had secured the backing of more than the 1,976 delegates, the number that she would need to reach to win the nomination.
Harris only launched her campaign on Sunday after President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his failing re-election campaign as he continued to fall further behind former President Donald Trump in the polls.
Delegates, none of whom are bound to Harris, will cast their votes during the first week of August to make the nomination official.
Harris addressed her campaign on Monday after Biden turned it over to her and claimed that she was going to do everything she could to unite the Democrat Party.
“As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I’ve mentioned, of California, and before that I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris said. “Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own game. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Biden called into the meeting that Harris attended and said that he was going to be hitting the campaign trail for her as he continues to serve as president despite widespread calls for him to resign from office over serious concerns over his mental fitness.
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