Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate.
While endorsements from delegates continue to come in, the vice president has now been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates she’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot.
Harris crossed the threshold amid a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening.
This is not a coronation. This is replacing the injured quarterback with a couple minutes left on the clock.
A couple of minutes != four months.
Four months until the actual election, not four months before people have to start planning for it. The logistics of finalizing, printing, and distributing materials for a nationwide election isn’t something that happens in a few weeks. It’s a lot less than four months until decisions need to be final and things need to be moving forward.
And a 4 year presidential term is not crowning a monarch.