Vice President Kamala Harris is the only presidential candidate who has qualified to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Democratic National Committee said Tuesday.
No other major Democrat had made any indication they planned to seek the party’s nomination to take on former President Trump in November, but the DNC’s announcement officially clears the path for the vice president to run unopposed for the nomination, according to The Associated Press.
This comes after President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election campaign.
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The party’s national convention delegates will vote to officially ratify the nominee in a new online voting procedure adopted by the party last week. Voting will begin Thursday and finish on Monday, the statement said, adding that votes for anyone other than Harris will be tallied as “present.”
Harris had easily secured enough delegates to replace Biden as the party’s presumptive nominee, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
Party rules state that to qualify to compete for the nomination, a candidate must submit a notarized declaration of candidacy, meet legal requirements to be president and secure the electronic signatures of at least 300 delegates, with no more than 50 of the 300 signatures from any one delegation.
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According to the DNC, 3,923 delegates had petitioned to nominate Harris.
Even with the early vote to choose a nominee, delegates will still attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in late August. The party will hold a ceremonial state-by-state roll call vote on the convention floor before Harris and her running mate, who has not yet been named, deliver speeches.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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