The five-day virtual voting ended this morning and Kamala Harris is now the Democratic presidential candidate.
Vice President of the United States Terrible Harris has formally secured his party’s presidential candidacy, when the virtual membership voting ended at 7 o’clock Finnish time in the morning.
Party convention representatives participated in the vote, of which 99 percent, or nearly 4,600 representatives, voted for Harris’ candidacy. Harris already got the required number of 1,974 party representatives right at the beginning of the vote.
The Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago on August 19. The party confirms the nomination after the end of the voting, leaving only a circus-like shout for a candidate at the party meeting itself.
Harris is also expected to announce his vice presidential candidacy today, and the two are scheduled to appear together for the first time at a campaign event in Philadelphia that evening.
Harris is expected to choose a senator as his running mate by Mark Kelly of Arizona, by the governor of Minnesota By Tim Walz or of the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro.
After the performance in Philadelphia, the two are scheduled to go on a five-day campaign tour to the so-called swing states, where the presidential elections in March will be decided.
AFP, AP