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Vice President Kamala Harris has gained sufficient votes from Democratic delegates to win the get together’s nomination for president, Democratic Nationwide Committee Chair Jaime Harrison introduced Friday.
Harris will turn out to be the primary Black girl and first Asian American to steer a major-party ticket.
The announcement got here throughout a digital occasion with supporters Friday. Delegates began casting virtual ballots for the nomination Thursday, a course of that can proceed till Monday night.
“I’m honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the US,” mentioned Harris, who joined the digital occasion. “I’ll formally settle for your nomination subsequent week, as soon as the digital voting interval is closed.”
“Later this month, we’ll collect in Chicago, united as one get together, the place we’re going to have a possibility to rejoice this historic second collectively,” the vice chairman added.
It’s been clear since shortly after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris that the vice chairman could be the one severe candidate for the nomination. Nearly all the get together, together with potential challengers, shortly endorsed her, and it took lower than 36 hours for her to safe unofficial endorsements from sufficient delegates to be the get together’s nominee.
Harris is the one identify on the poll, as she was the one candidate to a collect the 300 delegate signatures essential to qualify.
Harris’ path to the nomination stands in stark distinction to her 11-month presidential run in 2020, when she dropped out forward of the Iowa caucuses. Biden later named Harris as his operating mate, a choice that positioned her to tackle the get together mantle after he stepped apart final month.
Because the official nomination course of has unfolded, Harris has spent the previous practically two weeks reorienting the marketing campaign she inherited on a truncated timeline.
Her marketing campaign mentioned Friday it had raked in a whopping $310 million in its July fundraising efforts, buoyed by renewed power inside the get together over her candidacy. The haul additionally greater than doubled what Republican nominee Donald Trump’s political operation mentioned it had raised final month.
Harris can be within the remaining levels of selecting her operating mate. A supply acquainted with the vetting course of advised CNN that the vice chairman is predicted to fulfill with the highest finalists over the weekend, together with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
Harris and her vice presidential nominee will spend subsequent week campaigning throughout the battleground states, beginning with a Tuesday night time rally in Philadelphia.
Although voting for the Democratic nomination started and can probably conclude earlier than Harris pronounces her operating mate, get together guidelines don’t require a separate vote to substantiate the nominee for vice chairman.
Whereas the official voting is going down nearly, delegates could have a ceremonial roll name on the Democratic conference in Chicago, which begins August 19.
This story has been up to date with further data.
CNN’s Samantha Waldenberg and Jamie Gangel contributed to this report.