Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.
While endorsements from delegates continue to come in, the vice president has now been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates she’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot.
Harris crossed the threshold amid a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening.
The media is doing that thing again! You know, trying to coronate a candidate instead of waiting for the convention.
Please, can we not wait at least a fucking week for the illusion of democracy?
There’s not going to be a popular vote either way, so why wait? Harris is also the most obvious choice, especially since she seems to be the only one who actually wants to run.
Reporting the numbers of delegates she’s secured the support of and noting the number it’s more than needed to secure the nomination is “coronating”?
How does refusing to acknowledge the successor to the 2024 primary winner as the party’s nominee so pundits and convention delegates can push whoever they want at voters instead serve democracy?
The only other person that has said they will run is Marianne Williamson which is not a serious option.
I saw some buzz about Joe Manchin stepping up to challenge Harris.
That would be… interesting? Also not a serious option but more interesting than Marianne Williamson.
He has stated he will not be running.
I don’t see how. The Democratic Party’s delegates have committed to a candidate. They’re reporting on it. They can’t exactly be encouraging anyone to choose a candidate; they’re saying that the commitment has already happened.
The convention is when it’ll be official.
There is no time to fuck around unfortunately, they are making a smart move 100%. The Dems were pretty close to cannibalizing themselves over the Biden drop out thing. They need to quickly and coherently organize and unify. I’m saying all this and I’m not a big fan of Harris but I am pretty stoked to vote for her compared to my enthusiasm for voting 4 days ago.
The delegates/DNC are responsible here, not the media. If they’re all going to support Harris without any debate, the media can’t be faulted for reporting it.
I agree with the sentiment though. Harris has a lot of problems on her record and couldn’t even make it to Iowa in 2020. That she has enough connections to get picked as VP anyway doesn’t mean she has to be the default nominee.
There is no time for voting democracy itself is at stake!!
This is not a coronation. This is replacing the injured quarterback with a couple minutes left on the clock.
A couple of minutes != four months.
Four months until the actual election, not four months before people have to start planning for it. The logistics of finalizing, printing, and distributing materials for a nationwide election isn’t something that happens in a few weeks. It’s a lot less than four months until decisions need to be final and things need to be moving forward.
Yeah, 4 months is somewhat longer, and a 4 year presidential term is not crowning a monarch.