By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics
Many of Colorado’s leading Democratic elected officials and others who will have a say in picking the party’s presidential ticket said Sunday that they support nominating Vice President Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden’s historic decision to withdraw from the race less than four months before the November election.
Harris drew endorsements from Colorado’s governor, both of the state’s U.S. senators and all five Democratic members of the state’s U.S. House delegation within hours of Biden’s announcement even as national Democratic Party officials made clear that replacing Biden at the top of the ticket would not amount to a coronation.
Late on Sunday, state Democratic Party chair Shad Murib told Colorado Politics that he voted in favor of supporting Harris during a virtual meeting of the country’s 50 state party chairs, who voted overwhelmingly to back Harris. Murib said he planned to hold meetings as soon as Monday of the party’s state central committee and Democratic National Convention delegation to consider whether to coalesce behind Harris as the party’s nominee.