Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the party favorite to replace President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
Last updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 10:45AM GMT
Vice President Kamala Harris rallied voters in battleground Wisconsin Tuesday, her first presidential campaign event since securing enough delegate pledges for the Democratic nomination if they keep their word -- and used the rally to sharply frame her race against former President Donald Trump.
After President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the party favorite to replace him at the top of the ticket.
Biden endorsed Harris on Sunday -- and since then, many others in the Democratic Party are backing her.
With just a few months before the Nov. 5 election, all eyes are on Democrats as they work to lock in a candidate.
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Vice President Kamala Harris thanked President Joe Biden for endorsing her in the 2024 presidential race on Monday.
"It is my great honor to have Joe's endorsem*nt in this race," Harris said while speaking to campaign staff in Delaware.
Echoing Biden's comments on his commitment to the Democratic campaign, Harris said, "Joe is not done, far from it."
"He knows there is still more work to do and our nation will continue to praise his bold and visionary leadership as president," Harris said, adding, "Thank you, Joe."
Harris also went on the attack against Donald Trump at her campaign event in Delaware on Monday.
Watch the video below for her full speech at campaign headquarters.
Kamala Harris addresses her supporters at a campaign event in Delaware on Monday.
Jul 22, 2024, 10:17 PM GMT
President Biden called in to speak with Kamala Harris' campaign HQ on Monday, saying he "isn't going anywhere" after announcing Sunday that he's stepping aside from his reelection bid.
"The name has changed at the top of the ticket, but the mission hasn't changed at all," Biden said over the phone. "And by the way, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be out there on the campaign with her," he added.
"I'm going to be working like hell, both as a sitting president, getting legislation passed, as well as in campaigning," Biden said.
President Joe Biden called into Kamala Harris's campaign event in Delaware on Monday ahead of her speech.
Jul 22, 2024, 9:54 PM GMT
While Republicans promoted a unifying message last week and decried inflammatory language in the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, one of the first speakers to introduce Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a rally on Monday suggested the country may need to come to civil war if Trump loses in November.
"I believe wholeheartedly, Donald Trump and Butler County's JD Vance are the last chance to save our country," said George Lang, a Republican state senator. "Politically, I'm afraid if we lose this one, it's going to take a civil war to save the country and it will be saved. It's the greatest experiment in the history of mankind."
Lang later apologized after Harris' team highlighted his remarks on a post on X.
"I regret the divisive remarks in the excitement of the moment on stage," he said on the same social network. "Especially in light of the assassination attempt on President Trump last week, we should all be mindful of what is said at political events, myself included."
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Jul 22, 2024, 9:47 PM GMT
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign has surged in the 24 hours since announcing her candidacy, with 28,000 volunteers signing up to help organize, according to her campaign.
The boost in efforts is more than 100 times than on an average day, according to campaign officials.
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The campaign said earlier it took in $81 million in the 24 hours after Mr. Biden dropped out. It was the largest amount of money raised in a 24-hour span in presidential history, according to Team Harris.
Harris was born in Oakland, California, to Jamaican and Indian immigrants. The fact that her parents are immigrants does not disqualify her from serving as vice president or president.
Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States. She always fights for the people – from her barrier-breaking time as District Attorney of San Francisco and Attorney General of California, to proudly serving as a United States Senator and the Vice President.
Harris earns $218,000 per year as Vice President, and her net worth stands at an estimated $8 million, Forbes reports, due in large part to a multimillion dollar home in California that her husband Doug Emhoff bought in 2012.
Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign raked in more than $100 million between Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, the campaign said early Tuesday. Harris launched her campaign after President Biden ended his bid for reelection and endorsed her on Sunday.
Many of the party supporters and volunteers donated $81 million in what is being described as small dollar donations. Her campaign team also received $150 million in donations from the big donors.
As a senator prosecuting political opponents, a presidential aspirant questioning Biden's fitness for office, and a vice president rallying voters on abortion rights, Harris has clearly performed well in the past.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has been vocal about his love and support for his wife. Not long after Vice President Kamala Harris announced her presidential bid, her husband, Douglas Emhoff, showed his support for her on social media.
Her career path from prosecutor to politician has been defined by many firsts: She was the nation's first Indian American senator and California's first female and South Asian attorney general. Harris is the first woman to become vice president, as well as the first Black or Asian American person to hold the office.
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
Kamala is a teenage Pakistani-American mutant from Jersey City, New Jersey who idolizes Carol Danvers and unlocks her dormant cosmic energy powers from the Noor dimension. Kamala first appeared in the Disney+ television miniseries Ms. Marvel (2022) as its main protagonist.
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