By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer
WHEELING, W.Va. – West Virginia’s youngest delegate to the Democratic National Convention – a Wheeling native – will be reading off the Mountain State’s vote total during the DNC’s ceremonial roll call today.
Kathryn Prather, 18, will be joined in the honor by the state’s oldest delegate – Jean Evansmore, 83, of Mount Hope. A virtual vote of the delegates took place prior to the convention.
The DNC started Monday, and Prather spent a part of Monday morning rehearsing the script for the announcement. She is a recent graduate of Wheeling Park High School who plans to attend Johns Hopkins University as an engineering student this fall.
“I’m super excited. I am honored I can do this and represent West Virginia,” she said. “The experience so far has been incredible, as has the scale of everything. I’ve met people from across the country already. Everyone is so friendly.”
Prather noted there is a very large security presence in the city, and she feels safe in Chicago.
“And that says something as a young woman walking around in a big city where she has never been before,” she added.
Prather and the other local delegates all said they supported Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
