California delegates vote to endorse Harris as nominee
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Kamala Harris has earned sufficient delegates to turn into the seemingly Democratic celebration nominee, after California delegates voted unanimously to endorse Harris.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi made the movement to endorse Harris for president at a digital assembly of California’s DNC delegation on Monday night, a spokesperson confirmed.
Pelosi, who represents San Francisco in Congress, introduced that with the endorsement of California’s delegation, Harris – a local Californian – had earned sufficient delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi made the movement to endorse Kamala Harris for president at a digital assembly of California’s DNC delegation on Monday night, placing the VP – a daughter of Oakland – excessive, per a spox. pic.twitter.com/p7xUdJYkZf
— Lauren Gambino (@laurenegambino) July 23, 2024
Politico studies that California delegates voted unanimously to help Harris:
Breaking: California delegates simply voted unanimously on a Zoom name to help Harris because the nominee
Nancy Pelosi made the movement & famous how Harris has energized celebration: “It’s all totally different now, because of the selflessness of Joe Biden and the excellence of Kamala Harris.” pic.twitter.com/VDaHk6wqfz
— Dustin Gardiner (@dustingardiner) July 23, 2024
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The column additionally talked about current remarks by Trump, flaunting his ties with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un.
“It’s good to get together with anyone who has quite a lot of nuclear weapons,” Trump stated on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee final week.
Whereas acknowledging Trump’s efforts to construct ties throughout his 2017-2021 presidency, the column stated no substantial optimistic change was caused.
The US and South Korea have been more and more alarmed by deepening navy cooperation between Russia and the North, accusing them of violating worldwide legal guidelines by buying and selling in arms for Russia to make use of towards Ukraine. Moscow and Pyongyang have denied any arms switch.
A delegation of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Workplace of the Russian Federation arrived in Pyongyang on Monday within the newest signal of nearer ties between the 2 nations.
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In the meantime North Korean state media on Tuesday criticized the USA for its elections and forged doubt over hopes of dialogue sooner or later whatever the end result of the US presidential race in November.
The political local weather between Democrats and Republicans is “confused by the infighting” and won’t change, stated a column carried by KCNA with out the identify of the creator.
“Dialogue with sinister try and such dialogue as an extension of confrontation are unnecessary to be held from the outset,” the column from the reclusive communist-ruled nation stated.
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Right here is Biden’s name to the Harris marketing campaign workforce occasion earlier on Monday:
![Joe Biden calls in live to Kamala Harris event: ‘I’m watching you, kid. I love you’ – video](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8235e9d7e5d39cdc69380281ae66c076b2ab2850/0_0_1920_1080/1920.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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Harris assertion on changing into the presumptive Democratic nominee
The Harris marketing campaign has launched an announcement confirming that she has obtained the help wanted to turn into the Democratic celebration’s nominee (although a reminder, has not but been nominated) and that she appears to be like ahead to formally accepting the nomination quickly.
Right here is the total assertion:
Once I introduced my marketing campaign for President, I stated I meant to exit and earn this nomination. Tonight, I’m proud to have secured the broad help wanted to turn into our celebration’s nominee, and as a daughter of California, I’m proud that my residence state’s delegation helped put our marketing campaign excessive. I stay up for formally accepting the nomination quickly.
I’m grateful to President Biden and everybody within the Democratic Celebration who has already put their religion in me, and I stay up for taking our case on to the American folks.
This election will current a transparent selection between two totally different visions. Donald Trump needs to take our nation again to a time earlier than many people had full freedoms and equal rights. I imagine in a future that strengthens our democracy, protects reproductive freedom and ensures each individual has the chance to not simply get by, however to get forward.
Over the following few months, I will likely be touring throughout the nation speaking to People about all the things that’s on the road. I absolutely intend to unite our celebration, unite our nation, and defeat Donald Trump in November.”
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With Harris elevating document funding and securing the help of nearly all of delegates, one of many subsequent questions will likely be: what does polling say.
The final main Harris-Trump polling was performed when Harris was a hypothetical candidate. She is now the seemingly nominee.
The New York Occasions’s Maggie Haberman was on CNN a short time in the past, the place she stated that Biden’s marketing campaign messaging has been “sporadic at greatest” –and that “when somebody is framing the argument towards Donald #Trump in a sustained approach, that might have a really totally different impact on the polling than what we’ve seen to date. It might not, however there’s simply been an absence of that.”
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Delegates might nonetheless change their minds earlier than 7 August, however no person else obtained any votes within the AP survey, for instance, and simply 57 delegates stated they had been undecided.
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In a name on Friday, earlier than Biden dropped out, Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow on the Brookings Establishment and a member of the celebration’s guidelines committee, likened the method of choosing a brand new presidential nominee to a mini-primary, with delegates because the voting viewers. If Biden had been to drop out, the method could be “scrunched into three weeks or one thing. It’d be extremely tight.” The query on the conference would then turn into whether or not a consensus had shaped on a brand new nominee.
However that’s not precisely what’s occurred. As a substitute, members of the California Democratic celebration have begun circulating a Google doc asking delegates to pledge their help for Harris publicly and instantly. A second Google doc was circulating to delegates with a kind for pledging their help for Harris on a petition.
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It’s been greater than 50 years since delegates to a Democratic nationwide conference haven’t recognized their nominee as they walked via the door. Now, within the wake of Joe Biden’s determination on Sunday to not search re-election, there’s a mad sprint.
Delegates are on account of convene in Chicago on 19 August, and whereas the Democratic celebration appears to be coalescing round Kamala Harris, there’s no assure that she would be the nominee, and others might nonetheless throw their identify into competition.
However just some hours after Biden’s announcement, Google paperwork had been circulating asking delegates to pledge their help for Harris.
Delegates are, by and huge, native volunteers anticipated to spend hundreds of {dollars} to fly to Chicago and attend the conference. It’s usually considered as a reward for activism and dedication, however it’s usually a far much less consequential position than it is likely to be subsequent month.
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New York delegation endorses Harris
The New York delegation to the DNC has endorsed Harris, it confirmed on X. New York has 307 delegates:
The New York State Delegation proudly endorses @KamalaHarris because the Democratic nominee for President.
We’ll end the job Joe Biden began and ship Trump packing in November. pic.twitter.com/xQctVmo4JS
— New York State Democratic Celebration (@nydems) July 23, 2024
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Harris won’t preside over the chamber when when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint assembly of Congress on Wednesday.
In accordance with an aide, she is going to meet with Netanyahu on the White Home sooner or later this week. On Wednesday, Harris is scheduled to be in Indianapolis to average a dialog with the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Inc, one of many nation’s oldest Black sororities.
The @VP will meet with Netanyahu on the White Home this week, per an aide. She is scheduled to be in Indianapolis on Wednesday to average a dialog with Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.’s Grand Boulé, when Netanyahu addresses Congress.
— Lauren Gambino (@laurenegambino) July 22, 2024
Harris’s absence throughout Netanyahu’s controversial handle underlines the mounting stress between the Biden administration and the right-wing prime minister, because the loss of life toll from Israel’s battle in Gaza surpasses 39,000.
The vice chairman, who serves as president of the Senate, would usually preside over the chamber on such events, sitting on the Home rostrum subsequent to the Speaker as she has performed beforehand for addresses by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Israeli president Isaac Herzog.
The aide emphasised that Harris’s absence shouldn’t be interpreted as a snub or change in her dedication to Israel’s safety, however represented a scheduling battle.
Throughout her assembly with Netanyahu this week, the vice chairman is predicted to debate Israel’s safety, in addition to to once more condemn the 7 October assault and the acts of sexual violence which have occured whereas stressing her concern for the humanitariain situtaion in Gaza.
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In case you missed Harris’s speech to marketing campaign workers, here’s a key clip:
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Texas delegation endorses Harris
The Texas delegation to the DNC has simply put out an announcement saying it endorses Harris. Texas has 273 delegates, the third highest after California and New York.
Tonight, the Texas Democratic Nationwide Delegation proudly introduced our endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as our celebration’s nominee for President. Her historic tenure as the primary Black and South Asian girl to carry the workplace of the Vice President has been marked by an unwavering dedication to justice, fairness, and progress for all People. Together with her intensive expertise, dedication to public service, and confirmed management, we imagine Kamala Harris is uniquely certified to defeat Donald Trump and lead our nation ahead – championing the values and beliefs that unite us as a rustic.”
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