United States Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the 2,350 delegate votes required to win the Democratic party’s nomination ahead of the country’s November 5 presidential election.
Over 4,000 Democratic party delegates began voting virtually to select the presidential nominee on Thursday with voting expected to close on Monday when Kamala Harris’s nomination will be official.
Povonews.com previously reported that US President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Kamila Harris who ran unopposed in the Democratic presidential nomination race.
Kamali Harris posted on social media saying
“I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States,” said Harris, who joined the virtual event. “I will officially accept your nomination next week, once the virtual voting period is closed.”
“Later this month, we will gather in Chicago, united as one party, where we’re going to have an opportunity to celebrate this historic moment together,”
On Friday Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said
I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates, and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday
Harris is now America’s first Black woman and first Asian American to lead a major-party-ticket. If she wins the 2024 presidential election against former President Donald Trump she will also become the first female president in US history.
Kamala Devi Harris’s short biography
- Born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California
- Mother: Shyamala Gopalan (Indian-American Biomedical scientist with a PhD in nutrition and endocrinology)
- Father: Donald J. Harris (Jamaican-American Economics Professor)
- BA Political Science & Economics (Howard University, 1986)
- PhD in Law ( University of California College of the Law, 1989)
- Interned as a mailroom clerk for California Senator Alan Cranston
- Deputy district attorney in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office (1990 – 1998)
- Joined the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in 1998
- District Attorney for San Francisco (2003 – 2011)
- Attorney General of California (2010 – 2017)
- US Senator for California (2017 – 2021)
- US Vice President (2021 – 2024)
