From CNN’s Ebony Davis
The Harris for President campaign touted the recent endorsements of Kamala Harris that have poured in from Democratic elected officials in a news release Sunday night, citing “Overwhelming support for VP Harris from every corner of the country.”
“Hundreds of elected officials from across the political spectrum followed President Biden’s lead and announced their full-throated support for Vice President Harris as the Democratic nominee for president to defeat Donald Trump in November,” the campaign said in the release.
The campaign reiterated that Harris “will do everything in [her] power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.” CNN says it has been able to identify more than 500 endorsements for Harris from Democratic delegates as of early Monday.
Meanwhile, CNN has so far been able to identify more than 500 endorsements for Vice President Kamala Harris from Democratic delegates. That number will continue to grow, both as more delegates come out in support of the vice president and as we continue to work our way through the roughly 4,700 total delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held in August in Chicago.
The count includes around 290 pledged delegates, and more than 220 automatic delegates (also known as super delegates). These endorsements are not binding. And, with President Joe Biden out of the race, delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
What happens now?
The number of delegates a candidate will need to win the nomination will depend on if superdelegateswill be allowed to vote on the first ballot, something which remains an open question. If superdelegatesaren’t allowed to vote on the first ballot, winning the nomination would require 1,976 pledged delegate votes. If they are allowed to vote, it would require roughly 2,350 votes (the number of superdelegatescan shift over time).
The Democratic committee that will determine the rules for the party’s nomination will meet again on Wednesday afternoon, the committee’s co-chairs have announced.
“It is now the Committee’s responsibility to implement a framework to select a new nominee, which will be open, transparent, fair, and orderly,” said co-chairs Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and longtime Democratic operative Leah Daughtry. “The process presented for consideration will be comprehensive, it will be fair, and it will be expeditious.”
