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# WA Democrats vote to endorse Harris as presidential nominee
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/articles/briefs/2024/07/wa-democrats-vote-endorse-harris-presidential-nominee/
- Published: 2024-07-26T16:28:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-19T11:15:26.000Z
- Author: Venice Buhain
- Tags: Politics, #brief, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-04-25 08:30, #Import 2025-05-09 12:40, #article

Washington’s delegates and alternates to the National Democratic Convention [voted 79-17](https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/07/wa-dems-vote-backing-kamala-harris-presidential-nominee?ref=cascadepbs.org) to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.

The Washington delegation [met over a Zoom call Thursday](https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/07/wa-dems-vote-backing-kamala-harris-presidential-nominee?ref=cascadepbs.org) to conduct the vote. In March, [Biden won 83% of the Democratic vote](https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20240312/federal-all.html?ref=cascadepbs.org) in the Washington state presidential primary, with 9.8% of voters saying they were “uncommitted” and presidential candidates Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson each getting less than 3% of the Democratic vote.

But Biden threw his support behind Harris on Sunday [after he dropped his reelection campaign](https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/07/biden-withdraws-2024-presidential-race-amid-party-scrutiny?ref=cascadepbs.org), requiring the Democratic Party to shift gears one month before its national convention.

The Democratic National Committee plans to hold a virtual vote on Aug. 1 to choose the party’s nominee for president ahead of its Chicago convention, Aug. 19-22\. The national party said it had to hold the call, [citing an Ohio deadline of Aug. 7](https://apnews.com/article/harris-democratic-convention-nominee-virtual-voting-78991bcc443e06c000d1d800e0d94cc5?ref=cascadepbs.org) to get a presidential nominee on that state’s general election ballots. The Associated Press reported that its [survey of delegates indicated earlier this week that Harris already had enough votes](https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-presidential-candidate-election-withdraw-9fbd153493cb3f088994854fe61a73e9?ref=cascadepbs.org) to become the Democratic nominee.

The Democratic nominee will face the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance, in the general election in November.