Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president

Vice President Harris has passed the threshold needed to become the Democratic presidential nominee in a virtual roll call vote on Friday.

The vice president became the nominee just under two weeks since declaring her intent to run for the top of the 2024 ticket after President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. Within days, she secured support from enough delegates to clinch the nomination.

The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) virtual roll call vote started at 9 a.m. on Thursday and Harris ran for the nomination unopposed.

She had earned 3,923 delegates as of Tuesday, when the DNC announced that Harris was the only candidate to earn enough delegates to qualify for the virtual roll call.

She is the official nominee weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago begins on Aug. 19. And, she is expected to name her running mate within the next few days before she travels with the pick to seven swing states next week, starting with a stop in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

The decision to hold a virtual roll call vote ahead of the convention stems from plans initially made to ensure Biden appeared on the ballot in Ohio, which had a deadline to certify the party’s presidential nominee before the convention. Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has since extended the key deadline in his state.