US Vice President KAMALA HARRIS has secured the Democratic party’s presidential nomination on Friday, confirming her remarkable rise to party standard bearer in November’s showdown against Republican DONALD TRUMP.
HARRIS was the sole candidate on the ballot for a five-day electronic vote of nearly 4,000 party convention delegates. The first Black and South Asian woman ever to secure a major party’s nomination, she will be officially crowned at a Chicago convention later this month.
In the two weeks since president JOE BIDEN ended his reelection bid, HARRIS has gained full control of the party, smashing fundraising records, packing arenas and erasing the polling leads TRUMP had built over the president.
The nomination milestone came with HARRIS preparing to hit the campaign trail next week for a swing across seven crucial election states alongside her yet-to-be-named running mate.