From The Washington Times. Vice President Kamala Harris won the Democratic presidential nomination this week after thousands of party delegates completed an unusual online vote that will lock her in on the top of their ticket weeks before the party’s national convention begins.

“I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison said Friday.

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Ms. Harris, 59, is the only candidate on the ballot, known as a pledge form, and she became the nominee without winning a single primary and after a brief run for the nomination that will have lasted only 15 days by the time delegate voting ends. . . .

With voting completed, Ms. Harris has become the first Black female presidential nominee for a major political party.

Ms. Harris’s nomination set aside 14 million votes cast for Mr. Biden in the state-by-state Democratic presidential primary this year, in which he secured 3,905 delegates. . . .

Ms. Harris, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2019, quickly coalesced Democrats behind her nomination and has so far performed well in the polls and fundraising.

She polls better than Mr. Biden in battleground states and in some polls has eliminated Mr. Trump’s lead. A series of national polls show Ms. Harris slightly ahead of Mr. Trump, who had for weeks been in the lead. . . .

Democrats set up the pre-convention, virtual vote earlier this year, when it appeared they would miss Ohio’s deadline to appear on the presidential ballot. The Ohio date, August 7, was later extended to Sept. 1, well past the Democratic convention. . . .

From The Washington Times. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.