I am proud to be voting for Kamala Harris, who will make history as the first woman president of the United States. And our country will make progress in being true to our heritage and our hope. -NP pic.twitter.com/zDsqNGPoLZ
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) August 2, 2024
Congrats to Vice President Kamala Harris for receiving enough votes from delegates to become the Democratic Party's nominee for president.pic.twitter.com/eA0eouDxrT
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) August 2, 2024
DNC Chair @harrisonjaime: "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 Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday."
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) August 2, 2024
Per the Associated Press, “The DNC chair said Harris has a delegate majority. This is how its virtual roll call process works“:
Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee, according to Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison, but it’s not time for the balloon drop just yet.
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention began officially selecting their nominee for president in a process that kicked off Thursday. But unlike in past years, they are not doing so in the raucous party atmosphere of the convention floor or even during the convention itself. Instead, they are participating in what the party calls a “virtual roll call” and filling out electronic ballots at their homes, offices and vacation spots more than two weeks before the first delegate steps foot inside Chicago’s United Center.
Harris was the only candidate eligible to receive votes after no other candidate qualified by a Tuesday night deadline. She’s looking to officially claim the nomination on Monday evening when the DNC is expected to release final results…
Under new procedures adopted by the convention’s rules committee in late July, candidates had until Tuesday to declare their intent to seek the nomination and until that night to submit the 300 delegate signatures required to qualify for the roll call vote. According to a DNC statement, Harris submitted signatures from 3,923 delegates, about 84% of the full delegation and 99% of delegates who signed a petition.
Any vote cast for someone other than Harris in the roll call will be counted as “present.”
Voting will remain open until Monday at 6 p.m. ET, and Harrison urged delegates who had not voted yet to do so by the deadline…
Among those voting are pledged delegates selected through state primary and caucus processes as well as more than 700 others who have automatic delegate slots by virtue of the elected office or party positions they hold. These include Democratic governors, U.S. senators and representatives, former presidents and DNC members…
The DNC said in a statement on Friday that it would announce final, state-by-state results after voting concludes on Monday. That’s a departure from how presidential roll calls are usually conducted by either party. In past conventions, the roll call votes were tallied in real time before a national audience, with state delegations announcing their votes from the convention floor or, in the case of the 2020 Democratic convention, through remote video presentations from every state and territory…
Although the official balloting and vote-counting are taking place remotely and mostly behind closed doors, aside from one delegate’s announcement of her vote during the Harris campaign’s livestreamed event, the DNC says the convention will feature a ceremonial roll call vote, mimicking the traditional ritual of state delegations announcing their votes from the convention floor with much fanfare.
To Kevin McCarthy, we say: LOL. ROTFLMAO, even.
I like her even more now. https://t.co/b94eZ9OEPY
— Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어 (@torriangray) August 2, 2024
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zhena gogolia
Love the chyron on that last clip.
Villago Delenda Est
The TCFFG/PAB is screaming for a mulligan. He wants Joe back!
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: You can smell the desperation going up to the satellite and back on that one!
HinTN
Poor Kevin
ETA: Erm, did tRump ever call the Dems in and ask, “What should we do?” Magic 8 ball says..
hueyplong
Pretty sure McCarthy never said “What are your ideas, what should we do?” to a Dem, though he might once have begged “Save me from my own party!!!!! Pleeeease!!!! Hellllp!!”
KatKapCC
WOOOOOO!! Excited :D
But also: Kevin, the reason for that is you have no ideas worthy of listening to.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Good catch.
Congratulations, Kam.
MagdaInBlack
I’m not sure I understand why Kevin thinks they or he should have any say in this?
Greg
Regarding that chyron: She spoke to the press LAST NIGHT at the airfield when the freed Americans came home.
Josie
@MagdaInBlack:
He is desperately trying to think of something to criticize her for and is sadly coning up empty.
Martin
@MagdaInBlack: That would be my question as a reporter. “Why would she care what your ideas are? You don’t care what hers are.”
Scout211
The latest news on the veepstakes:
CNN breaking news: There is no news.
Translation: There are no anonymous sources leaking to the press.
sdhays
McCarthy didn’t even have a successful idea on how to remain Speaker for a whole year. Why would anyone bother asking him for thoughts?
Anoniminous
@Josie:
I’m willing to bet the scum has lots of things he calls her in private that would get him fired if said on TV.
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: That also explains the whiny chyron that she hasn’t spoken to the press in 12 days.
Poor neglected press gaggle.
RevRick
I’m looking forward to joining fellow Democrats at future President Harris’ rally in Philly.
Jay
@MagdaInBlack:
You just don’t understand how lonely they are,………
KatKapCC
@Scout211: Sometimes the press itself makes a good case against freedom of the press.
MagdaInBlack
@Jay: Pobrecitos.
Anonymous At Work
@MagdaInBlack: Was it selective breeding or self-selection that rid the Republican Party of self-awareness? “They didn’t ask me for any ideas I had! Not that I will say what ideas I had! But I swear by TFG that I definitively maybe had the notion of at least one idea, tops!”
HumboldtBlue
sdhays
@Anonymous At Work: That’s the other thing about this asshole. He was so fucking weak he was almost irrelevant. Everyone was yanking his chain and his only agenda was enjoying his larger office. He lost his job primarily because he lied to everyone, badly.
Empty Suit, thy name is Kevin.
Scout211
Made up shit, thy name is Fox News.
hueyplong
And it’s worth noting there was something of a bipartisan consensus that McCarthy was stupid.
rodwell
The reason MVP did not bother to ask Kevin is because she from California and knows Kevin’s MO. You cannot have a conversation with him because he will lie about afterwards. Every California Dem knew his reputation. Adam Schiff tells the story how Kevin lied about a conversation they had on a plane when Schiff was first elected. Someday Kevin will realizes constantly lying to adults have consequences.
KatKapCC
Epic eyeroll. Apparently Kyle Rittenhouse got skeerded when wingnuts got mad over him saying he wouldn’t vote for Trump, because now he’s walked it back.
Even more of a spineless little twerp than we thought.
hueyplong
@KatKapCC: The people he talked to assured him that, unlike his victim, they were not unarmed.
different-church-lady
Christ, did McCarthy really want her to put him on the spot like that?
Chet Murthy
@KatKapCC: I watched his original announcement that he was gonna vote for Ron Paul (?? wut ?? really, Kyle?) and his reasoning was that TCFG wasn’t gonna be sufficiently strong on the second amendment. And that’s …. -ridiculous-. My (admittedly very cynical) take is that he was angling for some sort of payoff, and that’s what he got, which is why he’s back on the team. He just needed a payoff.
Martin
Oh, the $10M campaign gift to Trump from Egypt story has awoken from the dead.
Martin
@Chet Murthy: Trump banned bump stocks. That pissed off a lot of gun humpers.
John Revolta
“Okay, Kevin, I’ll bite…………..what are your ideas? What should we do?”
………………..”I wanna be SPEAKER! SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! ME!! MAKE ME SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!1!!1!1! I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT!! ME SPEAKER ME!!!!”
Urza
Someone ask Kevin the last time a Republican wanted to hear Democratic ideas and actually consider them.
NotMax
Watching a program on historical art restoration on Prime. It’s in English.
The subtitles, however, are for a completely different show, one about film restoration.
rodwell
I mean this is the difference between an adult and a child. An adult gets a job to do something, and a child get it to be someone. Joe Biden wanted to be president for decades. He gets the it and he decided he going to do something with position not just occupy it like the TFCG. We all know his accomplishments. With a narrow legislative majority, he started to address climate change, rebuild the manufacturing base in this country and the middle class, which will have profound impact for decades. This will be part of his legacy.
Kevin just wanted to be Speaker of the House and then he can say he is somebody. That was his only goal which is why he debase himself with seventeen votes to get the job and made any deal to get it. He gets to be the Speaker but a totally ineffective one because he had no policy goal but being speaker. His legacy is that he becomes a historical punchline and an OMG trivia question in decades to come.
MisterForkbeard
@KatKapCC: Rittenhouse knows where his gravy train is. Dude has no skills, is a shit public speaker, and it’s been a few years since he murdered someone so the Republicans don’t really care about him.
This got him a day of anger and then a bunch of plaudits today. He’s a rightwing star again.
kalakal
Being irrelevant getting to you Kevin?
Ken
@kalakal: Strange that it’s just happening now, after decades of irrelevancy.
kalakal
@Ken: Not exactly quick on the uptake is he?
RandomMonster
What, is he worried somebody might shoot him?
Darkrose
Kevin, your own party never asked what your ideas were. That’s why you’re no longer Speaker, numbnuts.
RaflW
Poor Kevin McCarty. Republicans didn’t want him. Democrats didn’t want him.
Maybe he should just stick to playing golf, fishing, or whatever failed Speakers do. I’m guessing no pot companies are clamoring for his ‘help’, unlike John Boehner.
RaflW
@MagdaInBlack: That seems like a specific Fox chyron. I see that as a way to soften the fact that Trump nearly vanished from public eye for days after Harris’s elevation to the top of the ticket.
She of course has been incredibly busy and very visible, even if she doesn’t stop to do press ‘avails’ after rallies. Oh, sad!
Btw, folks have also been commenting at Bsky that the ranks of Trump surrogates seem very thin these days. Unlike, say, Pete doing TDS or all the other veep hopefuls working the cameras and on the road.
Trump’s campaign isn’t pulling in nearly the money of Harris. Has far fewer field offices. Surrogates are limited, and Vance is turning out to be a bad stumper and even worse ‘on his feet’ speaker.
Nothing to get complacent about given the tight polls, but the momentum shift is rolling.
Msb
Typical Republican overreach: OH Rs’ “clever” little attempt to keep Biden off the ballot enables Ds to kill the chance of a divisive convention.
Won’t somebody think of the pundits’ disappointment? /s
wjca
Surrogates are not only limited, but the ones who are available are pretty terrible. Maybe not quite as bad as Vance. (At least some of them.) But nobody cleans up after them like they do for TCFG.
brantl
No, the reason she didn’t talk to Qevin, is because she knows that when you need a quart’s worth of ideas, you’re not going to get them out of an empty, vacuum-sealed pint jar.
brantl
Kamala should present him a different debate stage. with microphones muted as previously, when not speaking, with him nailed to his podium (literally would be good!), and no audience.