US Vice President Kamala Harris is not the official Democratic candidate yet, and has some way to go in order to secure the nomination for presidential candidate, says a professor from Flinders University.
File photo. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris raise their arms up as fireworks go off in the background during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention on Aug 20, 2020. In most countries, such a decision would trigger a meeting of party number-crunchers behind closed doors, where the party would select a new candidate and announce the decision to the rest of the country.
This situation is unprecedented in modern US elections. The current presidential nominating system based on widespread primary elections took shape in the 1970s. Since then, it has worked virtually flawlessly, with candidates from both parties collecting pledged delegates during the primary season and receiving the nomination during each party’s convention.
According to the party rules, at this stage any member of the Democratic party can gather signatures from at least 300 delegates from a minimum of six states to run for the top spot on the Democratic ticket. This means, theoretically, that there could be up to 15 people seeking the Democratic nomination, including Harris, although it is highly unlikely that such a large number of contenders will enter the field now.
From Aug 19 to 22, Democrats will gather in Chicago for their national convention. Interestingly, Chicago was also the city where the Democrats gathered during the last properly contentious convention in 1968.That year, president Lyndon Johnson announced on Mar 31 that he was not going to run for re-election. A few days later, on Apr 4, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis.
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