Just days after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, his Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered broad support from Democratic delegates across the country.
That includes the state of Texas, which carries the third most delegates of any state. And on a Monday night Zoom call, delegates there voted to endorse Vice President Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Jeff Strater, a Texas DNC Delegate told us, "from the moment of the announcement we were all on board and wondering what we could do."
"Our state party saw a trend yesterday of other parties endorsing Kamala Harris and there was a great interest from our Texas delegates to do that," Strater said.
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Kardal Coleman is the chairman of the Dallas County Democrats, and she said "it was clear, as soon as we got on the call, the direction of what people already move."
"I think it is being handled the right way," Coleman added. "President Biden is supporting who has been supporting him for the past four years. Right? They've done work together. They're partners in this work."
The endorsement by the Texas Democratic National Delegation is largely symbolic for now. The DNC rules committee is expected to meet Wednesday to set a date for delegates across the country to officially cast their vote.
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David Becker serves as the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research. He says there were some candidates out there trying to see if they can drum up support to challenge Harris, but they ultimately failed.
"There were some other candidates, perhaps minor candidates, who were calling delegates and calling delegations and trying to see if they can garner some support," Becker said. "And the fact is, they couldn't, and that's the Democratic process, at least on a kind of delegate level, working."
The Democratic Party has said they might opt to hold a virtual roll call of delegates before convening at next month's Democratic National Convention.. But in order to make sure the Democratic ticket is on the ballot in all 50 states, the delegate vote for the presidential nominee and their vice president pick will need to be wrapped up by August 7.
