BREAKING: Kamala Harris secures support from enough delegates to become Democrat presumptive nominee: AP survey

Those few thousand delegates who were elected to nominate Biden are now tasked with choosing his replacement, and Vice President Kamala Harris, second in line to the presidency, is believed to have enough support among those delegates to snatch the nomination from her outgoing boss and lead the Party herself.

The AP conducted a survey which shows that "Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Donald Trump." While the survey, the AP notes, is unofficial, it indicates that she's got a better shot than anyone else of securing the nomination. She has the explicit support of many top Dems, including Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi, though not, as yet Barack Obama.

"Under current party rules," the AP stresses, "a candidate will need the support of 1,976 delegates on the first ballot of that vote to win the nomination." Per the survey, she's got 2,668 with only 54 undecided. The delegates are still free to vote for a candidate of their choice either in person or in a "virtual roll call," which the DNC was planning to use to secure Biden's nomination ahead of the in-person event in Chicago.

Speaking at a campaign event in Delaware on Monday, Harris said "It is my intention to go out and earn this nomination and to win." She further leaned into that concept that Biden called "elusive" on the Sunday after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, saying her goal is to "unite our Democratic Party, to unite our nation, and to win this election."

The Democrats are seeking to replace their candidate with barely more than 100 days left before Election Day in November and, as the Washington Post notes, "Party leaders have made clear they would like to avoid the chaos of several candidates vying for the nomination at the convention."

Some delegates apparently have concerns that Harris is not earning the nomination as she did not have to go through a Democratic process to get there. She did not go through a primary process, she has not been vetted by voters, she has not faced any opposition, and she has not had her proverbial tires kicked by voters, to borrow a 2016 phrase from Hillary Clinton.

Virginia delegate Ryan Morgan told WaPo "There has not really been a historical precedent for this, and I think a fair and open process is critical both for the tens of millions of Democratic voters who turned out, but also for the perception of voters everywhere."

"We have a primary process," he said, "we have a democratic process, and having [delegates] picking someone off the outgoing president’s opinion is not what people are used to."

While former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Harris, she did call for an open convention where delegates would choose the candidate at the DNC in Chicago. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who left the Party in May, has also advocated for an open convention.

"The Democrats pick a candidate, Crooked Joe Biden, he loses the Debate badly, then panics, and makes mistake after mistake, is told he can’t win, and decide they will pick another candidate, probably Harris. They stole the race from Biden after he won it in the primaries — A First! These people are the real THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!" Trump posted on Monday night.