Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president.
With Joe Biden’s shock withdrawal on Sunday afternoon, the stage is set for Harris to succeed him on the ticket. The drama, though, is not about the result. It’s about the process.
The question for Democrats is whether steps will be taken to quickly coronate Harris and hand her the presidential nomination or if there will at least be the opportunity for her to face token opposition — the sort Dean Phillips put up against Joe Biden.
Already, within hours of Biden’s announcement, elected Democrats from all wings of the party had rallied behind his vice-president to endorse her as Biden’s successor, as did the incumbent president himself. It’s hard to see any scenario in which Harris is denied the nomination
Democrats were already engaged in an elaborate process to adjust the rules of the convention to allow the nominee to be officially selected well in advance of it’s being gaveled into session on August 19. The push to hold a “virtual roll call” had been initially prompted by a quirk in Ohio state law that required a nominee to be selected before August 7. Although Ohio had changed its law, Democrats were still planning on........