When Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to become the presumptive Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid last month, she was immediately boosted onto a pedestal by her party backers and liberal media allies.

Yet, Harris may have already been removed from that pedestal by a few dozen Democratic delegates who denied any hopes for a unanimous nomination by voting "present" during the ceremonial roll call vote, according to the Daily Caller.

That number likely included the "uncommitted" delegates who represented protest votes in multiple states against the Biden-Harris administration's continued backing of Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

Harris wins the Democratic nomination

According to an NBC News tracker of primary delegates for both political parties, VP Harris needed the support of just 1,976 of the 4,695 total delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, but she and her backers undoubtedly hoped to win unanimous consent from all of the available delegates.

Those hopes were dashed, though, as Harris accumulated 4,567 delegates during the virtual roll call vote conducted by the Democratic National Committee ahead of the formal nomination at the convention.

Of those delegates who supported Harris, more than 3,900 of them were previously won by President Biden in the primary elections and were presumably inherited by Harris when she took over the campaign as her own.

Of those who didn't support Harris, however, only a handful were barred from doing so because they were pledged to support a couple of also-ran candidates who never really presented a threat to Biden when he was still in the running for a second term in office.

The "present" and "uncommitted" delegates

In all, per the Daily Caller, 44 Democratic delegates from 13 states voted "present" rather than support VP Harris during the ceremonial roll call vote earlier this month.

Those states included Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Washington, and, curiously enough, Minnesota, which is both the home state of Harris' running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, and also the state that sent the most "present" delegates, 10, of all.

That total number of "present" votes presumably includes the 37 "uncommitted" delegates from across the country who represented protest voters opposed to the incumbent administration's support for Israel and instead demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a halt to the provision of U.S. weapons to the Israeli military.

Whether that "uncommitted" movement was merely a symbolic protest during the primary or will continue through the general election and result in fewer Democratic votes for Harris in November remains to be seen.

Momentum in the polls appears to have halted

Meanwhile, aside from being knocked off her pedestal by the "present" delegates during the DNC's roll call vote, there are other indications that the brief honeymoon period for VP Harris is over and her initial momentum has been halted.

According to RealClearPolling's average of national polls, Harris leads former President Trump by approximately 1.5 points -- a margin she has been stuck at for the past several days and which just so happens to coincide with the Democratic convention, when many Americans received their first real glimpse of Harris as a candidate and began to learn what some of her proposed policies are.

That is notable because Harris had been trailing by a similar margin when she first entered the race about a month ago and, until the convention started, had been on a sharply upward trajectory to surpass Trump, only to now appear to have stalled out.