Harris secures enough delegate endorsements to win the Democratic presidential nomination | CNN Politics
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Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.

Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.

While endorsements from delegates continue to come in, the vice president has now been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates she’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot.

Harris crossed the threshold amid a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    4 months ago

    Fuck off

    I love what Harris has been doing with messaging so far but this predetermination of delegates bullshit just harkens back to Clinton.

    Leave the determination until the fucking convention.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Exactly! The party running on saving democracy already stole our ability to democratically select a candidate. At least they should be willing to present the appearance of an approximation of democracy. Somehow that’s suddenly a radical position.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        0·
        4 months ago

        Just like in the actual presidential election, during the primary, you are voting for electors (delegates) who have pledged their votes to a candidate, and their votes are cast at the convention.

        If that candidate leaves the race, those electors still get to vote their conscience. That is what you have entrusted them to do.

        • John Richard@lemmy.world
          01·
          4 months ago

          So that means that at least Florida, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Indiana must have primaries still for any delegates?