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DNC Process for Nomination



By Sunday Night Vice-President Kamala Harris had the pledges of over 700 delegates.


By Monday night Harris had enough delegates to be the presumed nominee.



AP Democratic Delegate Survey

Last updated Jul 22, 2024, 9:41 PM



"Let me be clear: We remain laser focused on winning in November. Let me also add and be clear here that we will deliver a presidential nominee by August 7 of this year," said Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison in a press call Monday evening.


The earlier push to hold a virtual roll call before the August convention came under scrutiny from Democrats who wanted Biden to step aside and let another candidate run in his place. But now that the president has quit the campaign and endorsed Harris the furor around the issue has largely dissipated.


The committee on Monday laid out a process that will give candidates an unspecified period of time to gather at least 300 nominating signatures from delegates to qualify for the electronic ballot. If only one candidate qualifies, according to the memo, the next step in the process will be electronic voting.


But if multiple candidates qualify, "a period of no more than several days will follow” in which candidates will compete for delegates' support.


There could be several rounds of electronic voting if no candidate wins a majority on the first ballot. But as of Monday, Harris had enough pledged delegate support to secure the nomination.



Such a timeline, if it were implemented, could result in Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden’s endorsed successor, selecting her running mate by the middle of next week.


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The DNC laid out three qualifications to be considered for the nomination: A candidate must file a formal declaration of candidacy with the DNC, meet party and legal qualifications to be president and secure at least 300 delegate signatures, no more than 50 of whom come from one state delegation.




Harris may have only a few days to make perhaps one of the most important decisions: her vice president. Under a draft plan circulated Monday night by the Democratic National Committee, delegates could begin voting on the presidential and vice presidential nominations as early as next week, shrinking the typically exhaustive vetting process for possible candidates into a matter of days.


At an all-staff meeting at the now-Harris campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, Harris announced that both Julie Chávez Rodríguez and Jen O’Malley Dillion will be remaining in their roles leading the team as campaign manager and campaign chair, respectively.


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The nomination process could start as early as next week as the DNC is on track to keep its virtual roll call. The proposal came after an aggressive push to convince delegates to still back it, particularly now that Harris effectively cleared the field of would-be challengers, according to one person directly familiar with the committee’s thinking and granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.


“This has been an open process because no one has told anyone not to get in,” said one member of the Democratic National Convention rules committee, also granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. “But no one else has dipped their toe in the water.”






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