By Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson
Kamala Harris gets enough delegates for Democratic nomination
(Updated at 8:21 p.m. PT with statement from the VP) In record time, the current vice president of the United States has gathered a large enough majority of Democratic delegates to secure the presidential nomination on the first ballot next month.
Kamala Harris' home state of California and the Golden State's 300-plus delegates at DNC '24 in Chicago safely carried her over the top earlier tonight. Now the VP has another historic first in her sights. That new political reality is coming at a very busy day 1 of the Harris for President campaign and just over 36 hours after Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race for the White House in 2024.
"When I announced my campaign for president, I said I intended to earn this nomination," Vice President Harris said around midnight on Monday on the East Coast. "Tonight, I am proud to have received the broad support needed is to become our party's nominee, and as a daughter of California, I am proud that my home state delegation carried our campaign to the top" (Read the Vice President's full statement below).
