The Democratic National Committee’s virtual roll call vote has closed, and the Democratic Party announced that Vice President Kamala Harris received the votes of 99% of the participating delegates.
In a statement late Monday, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and Minyon Moore, the Democratic National Convention committee chair, said that the roll call results would next be certified by the convention’s secretary, Jason Rae, formalizing Harris’ status as the Democratic nominee who will take on Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
I once heard it explained that a common tactic for campaigns was, there’s that smoky back room where the people who actually make the decisions, and they already know who the nominee is going to be. They put forward several candidates to the early primary debates and stuff who are all fuckups and goofballs. And they let the public think “What even is this shit?” They let them puke themselves on stage for a little while, let everyone say “I don’t want any one of these idiots in charge” and then they roll out the real candidate and everyone says “finally, a qualified adult.”
That’s what happened here.