The 2024 Democratic National Convention is an ongoing presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party will vote on the party platform and ceremonially report their vote to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and affirm her choice of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota for vice president in the 2024 presidential election.
It is currently being held from August 19 to 22, 2024, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Delegates nominated Harris for president through online and phone voting that lasted from August 1 to 5.
Harris is the first Indian - Black woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States, and the first Democratic presidential nominee from the Western United States.