2024-08-08 07:41:38
US Vice President Kamala Harris, whose nomination as the Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election was supported by American leader Joe Biden, secured the support of 99% of the party’s delegates following an online vote.
About it Day.Az with reference to TASS.
According to a statement from Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, Harris “received the support of 99% of delegates who participated in the online vote.”
According to his statement, the text of which is cited by American media, 4,567 party delegates voted in support of Harris’s candidacy.
CBS television network notes that after the end of voting on August 5, Harris announced that she would accept the offer to run for president.
ABC television company, in turn, emphasizes that the results of the vote must be officially approved by the secretary of the party’s national convention in Chicago on August 19-22. However, in fact, after the voting was completed, Harris became the Democratic candidate.
Harris has secured the 1,976 Democratic delegate votes needed to clinch the nomination. Remote voting on whether to nominate Harris began on August 1.
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