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To avoid being kept off the ballot in Ohio, the Democratic Party held a virtual roll call of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention starting Thursday at 9 a.m. EDT. By Friday, Kamala Harris had the needed 2,350 votes and is now the official Democratic Party nominee for president. Voting will end at 6.p.m. EDT today. All second-guessing should now officially stop. It's over. It's her. Harris said thank you, but her real acceptance speech will be at the convention, which starts Aug. 19 in Chicago.
Harris is doing more than having pleasant chats with guys looking for a better-paid job requiring no heavy lifting. She is also busy hiring folks who will have an extremely strenuous job for the next 3 months. In the past 3 days, she hired David Plouffe, who ran Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008; Stephanie Cutter, who was Obama's communications director (and who is also running the Democratic National Convention); David Binder, who ran Obama's polling operation; and Mitch Stewart, who held high positions in both of Obama's campaigns. All the new hires will report to campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon, who also held high positions in both of Obama's campaigns. The alert reader may detect a pattern here. Harris is moving at breakneck speed. She has to. She needs to compress 2 years of campaigning into 100 days. (V)