The vice president’s campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday.

Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough delegate votes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday, though the results are not yet official.

The DNC will not make an official announcement of results until Monday evening, when the virtual voting process closes for delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    No. He didn’t even win by any sort of thin margin.

    The closest anyone even got to him was Dean Phillips got 19% in New Hampshire. I guess he spent his entire time campaigning there. Even state with the highest ‘uncommitted’ protest votes only got those up to 29.1%.

    Some people here really don’t like it, but Biden was going to be the nominee. So I’m glad he ended up dropping out and it’s going to be Harris instead because it sure as hell wasn’t going to be Dean Phillips.

    (I will say that if you include American Samoa in this, Jason Palmer got 56% of the vote.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries#Major_candidates

    I’ve never heard of Jason Palmer before, but I can guess where he inexplicably spent the majority of his time campaigning.

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      5 months ago

      (I will say that if you include American Samoa in this, Jason Palmer got 56% of the vote.)

      You probably shouldn’t, since American Samoans are “non-citizen US nationals” and can’t vote in the Presidential general election anyway.

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      5 months ago

      I have to give Dean Phillips some credit, he probably saw that Biden was starting to show his age and at least tried to get some attention on it. The debate was the tipping point for many (I know it was for me). If we had a debate earlier in the process then maybe we all could have come to this conclusion sooner.

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        5 months ago

        Honestly, dropping out this late was kind of a genius move, even if it was unintentional. The Trump campaign is twisting in the wind. They were all in to fight Biden. Now it’s an old man against a woman who isn’t young, but also doesn’t look 59, and is clearly just far more intelligent and far more just cognitively able than Trump.

        And the best attack Trump has been able to come up with is “she turned black all of a sudden.” Which he said to a bunch of black people.

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          a woman who isn’t young, but also doesn’t look 59

          Right? Kamala looks like she’s mid 40s. She’s aging pretty good.