DNC delegates will nominate Kamala Harris, again

By ROBERT YOON

WASHINGTON (AP) — As soon as extra, with feeling!

It’s been almost two weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris officially won the Democratic presidential nomination in a web based vote, the primary time a nominee was named previous to a celebration’s conference. However the roughly 4,700 delegates charged with choosing a nominee to guide the ticket did so from places across the globe on their laptops and units in relative isolation from one different. There was not one of the pomp and fanfare that normally accompany the collection of the get together’s standard-bearer. In different phrases, it wasn’t very enjoyable.

Democratic get together leaders hope to make up for that by holding a ceremonial vote on the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday in Chicago. Among the many main agenda gadgets will probably be what’s basically a re-staging of the official presidential nomination vote from early August, mirroring the sometimes-festive, sometimes-raucous roll name votes which have been a staple of in-person get together conventions for nearly 200 years.

The Democratic Nationwide Committee calls it a “celebratory Roll Name” and mentioned in a press release the occasion would give delegates the chance to “have fun the nomination” of Harris, who’s the primary girl of coloration to guide a serious get together presidential ticket.

Right here’s the way it will work:

When is the celebratory roll name?

Delegates will collect on the conference flooring on Tuesday to solid their symbolic votes. It’s the third consecutive Democratic conference when the roll name was held on a Tuesday and the primary in-person roll name since 2016. For many years, Democrats held their roll name on a Wednesday, the second-to-last day of the conference.

Will there be any suspense within the roll vote?

It’s been greater than 40 years since there’s been any query about who the nominee can be heading right into a conference roll name vote. Since then, a single candidate has at all times emerged in every get together because the presumptive nominee properly earlier than the conference, making the vote itself a foregone conclusion.

That’s very true within the 2024 Democratic conference, because the ceremonial vote is non-binding and can’t undo or modify the outcomes of the sooner, official vote to appoint Harris held over 5 days within the first week of August. That’s to not say there can’t be some try and stage a protest vote from the conference flooring, however it gained’t have any affect on the result.

The end result from the official nomination vote from early August was 4,563 votes for Harris and 52 for “current,” the one different possibility on the poll. An extra 79 delegates didn’t solid votes.

What is going to the ceremonial roll name seem like?

Conference organizers have indicated the ceremonial vote will comply with the overall format of previous in-person conference roll calls, with some stylistic prospers. State delegations will nonetheless name out their votes from the conference flooring in a session presided over by the conference secretary. These shows are normally a possibility for every delegation to precise their assist for the nominee and the get together, whereas additionally demonstrating their state delight. This 12 months, every presentation will probably be accompanied by a track to signify the delegation, just like a star batter’s “walk-up” track at a baseball recreation. A DJ will play the track on the principle stage, whereas iconic photos from every state and territory will probably be displayed on massive screens.

What’s the order of voting for the states?

The conference secretary will name on state delegations to vote principally in alphabetical order, with a number of key exceptions. Voting within the celebratory roll name will start with President Joe Biden’s dwelling state of Delaware as a tribute to the president. The roll name vote will conclude with vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s dwelling state of Minnesota and Harris’ dwelling state of California. Organizers say the modified order symbolizes the passing of the torch from Biden to Harris and the “subsequent era of Democratic management.”

Modifying the order through which delegations solid their votes is a typical software that each events have used to choreograph the roll name to permit sure states to play a heightened function within the course of.

Do they vote straight by means of?

In previous roll name votes at each events’ conventions, the voting quickly stops as soon as the nominee surpasses the votes wanted to win the nomination in order that delegates mark the event and maintain a celebration on the ground. Ultimately, the voting resumes till all delegations have voted. Conference organizers haven’t indicated how or whether or not delegates would mark the milestone of Harris symbolically clinching the nomination. The excellence is considerably moot this 12 months, since Harris is already the nominee, based mostly on the official vote held earlier in August.

Is there a vote for the vice presidential nominee?

Delegates will solid symbolic votes within the celebratory roll name for each Harris and Walz, based on a press release from conference officers, a departure from conventional roll calls.