DNC preps to deliver nomination to Kamala BEFORE convention

The Democratic National Convention is slated to begin on August 19 but officials are ready to crown Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee well before that date.

On Monday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced a nominee will be named by August 7 after employing a virtual roll call.

“Working with the Convention Rules Committee, the Democratic Party is prepared to shift the nominating portion of the Convention to an electronic format to ensure that our Democratic nominees for President and Vice President are certified before state ballot access deadlines,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison and Minyon Moore, DNC co-chair wrote in a memo that did not mention Harris.

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An “in-person contested convention” has been nixed reportedly due to “ballot access deadlines, potential Republican legal challenges, and the need to vet a vice-presidential candidate,” the Washington Post reported.

“As it stands, no candidate has secured a majority of the delegates to the convention,” Moore said.

According to The Hill:

The DNC will use an electronic voting system for delegates to vote for candidates for the nomination who meets three criteria — file formal declaration of candidacy with the committee, meet the party and legal qualifications to be president, and gather a minimum of at least 300 delegates with no more than 50 delegates from one state.

If more than one candidate reaches the 300 delegates threshold, there will be a window for qualified candidates to make their case to the delegates and the public, the DNC outlined.

“We are living through an unprecedented moment in history and, as a party, we are tackling it with the seriousness that it deserves,” Harrison told reporters on a conference call, according to the Associated Press.

“We are prepared to undertake a transparent, swift, and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a nominee who represents our values,” he said, adding that Democrats “can, and will, be both fast and fair as we execute this nomination.”

Democrats had already announced plans to hold a virtual roll call when Biden was still in the race. The change in date and plans was necessitated by the president’s withdrawal.

On Monday, after reports of a stunning fundraising haul of $81 million in 24 hours, Harris seemed well on her way to clinching the nomination with 770 delegates already endorsing her.

After President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would be ending his re-election bid, Harrison praised his record in a statement.

“The American people owe President Biden an enormous debt of gratitude for the unparalleled progress he has delivered over the last four years – and we will honor that legacy, and the decision that he has made today, through a firm commitment to nominating and electing a Democratic president this November who will carry that torch into the next four years,” the DNC chair wrote.

“The work that we must do now, while unprecedented, is clear. In the coming days, the Party will undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November. This process will be governed by established rules and procedures of the Party. Our delegates are prepared to take seriously their responsibility in swiftly delivering a candidate to the American people,” he added.

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