Vice President Kamala Harris was officially nominated for president by the Democratic Party when delegates finished virtual voting late on Aug. 5, according to Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison.
The party said in a statement released just before midnight that 99 percent of delegates had cast their ballots for Harris. It said it would next formally certify the vote before holding a celebratory roll call at the party’s convention later this month in Chicago.
Harris had surpassed the threshold of delegate support to become the party’s presumptive nominee on Aug. 2 after already submitting more than 3,923 signatures by the day prior, Harrison said. Based on DNC rules passed in July, a candidate needs written support from at least 1,975 pledged delegates on the first ballot to become the presidential nominee….