2024-08-07 01:01:22
Kamala Harris will be formally designated as candidate democrat for the US presidential elections in November, at the end of a online process which started yesterday.
Less than two weeks after the withdrawal of the candidacy of Joe Biden for a second term, thousands of party delegates began to elect the vice president Harris as her official replacement.
The conclusion of this process leaves no room for doubt, based on the fact that Harris is the the only candidate in the internal contest.
Typically, the official investiture of the candidate takes place in person at a party convention, scheduled this year in Chicago from August 19 to 22.
However, due to procedural requirements, the Democrats decided to move this vote online. An unusual methodology ―and one more oddity of this electoral process― but it should be similar to the one that was used exceptionally in 2020, during the pandemic. Covid-19.
Voting is expected to end on Monday evening. Democratic Party He has not detailed how the event will be monitored on a day-to-day basis and how its results will be announced.
Until recently, most of the more than 3,900 Democratic delegates had no choice but to nominate Biden, winner of the primaries organised at the beginning of the year. But they were freed from this limitation after the current president threw in the towel.
Harris, 59, quickly emerged as the only possible replacement, amassing support among party officials and garnering praise in the surveys best results that Biden.
And above all, he managed to re-motivate the Democratic base, which had an immediate effect on his fundraising campaign. money, which in just a few days raised more than $200 million.
The risks of internal war that briefly appeared on the horizon after the resignation of Biden, Democrats begin this convention with the intention of staging a solid support for Harris.
“Our party met this unprecedented moment with a transparent, democratic and orderly process to unite behind a Proven candidate “who will lead us in the fight ahead,” said Jaime Harrison, party president.
The battle at the polls against Trump in November promises to be tough, but according to polls, the Democrats are now in a better position to confront the tycoon, who until a few weeks ago was the clear favourite.
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2024-08-07 01:01:22