Democratic National Committee member Elaine Kamarck said on Monday there’s “no time” ahead of the party’s August convention for another candidate to become the nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race following calls from allies within his party to step aside after his disastrous June debate against former President Donald Trump. Kamarck said on “CNN News Central” that Harris’ likely advantage with Biden’s delegates and the lack of time in the race make it so the chances of another candidate becoming the nominee are exceedingly “small.”
“The delegates are now formally uncommitted, okay? They can do whatever they want to. Now, you got to think about this for a minute. She’s his vice president,” Kamarck told host John Berman. “She has been all around the country with him doing political stops, et cetera. So the fact of the matter is that when Joe Biden says it’s Kamala Harris, I’d say most of those people are going to vote for her. And remember what vice presidents do. They do a lot of political work for their president. So I would guess that of that 4,000 plus group of people, a big percentage of them have actually met and shake[n] hands with Kamala Harris. So she’s got a lot going for her in this race.” […]
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