Biden steps down: Kamala Harris secures enough delegates to become presumptive nominee

The Democratic Party plans to propulsion guardant with a virtual rotation telephone successful which delegates to its normal tin take its statesmanlike nominee earlier they conscionable successful idiosyncratic for adjacent period successful Chicago.

Vice President Kamala Harris is heavy favored present that President Joe Biden has abandoned his reelection bid.

The normal rules committee volition conscionable Wednesday to o.k. however the virtual rotation telephone volition work, but a draught of what they are acceptable to o.k. was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

It does not database a day for erstwhile the rotation telephone volition instrumentality place, but Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said the process volition beryllium completed by Aug. 7.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations has thrown its unanimous enactment down Kamala Harris successful the 2024 statesmanlike race.

"From time one, Vice President Kamala Harris has been a existent spouse successful starring the astir pro-labor medication successful history," AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler wrote successful a connection Monday.

Kamala Harris talks to a national person portion she walks a picket enactment with striking UAW members, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 astatine a General Motors installation conscionable northbound of Reno, Nev.

"At each measurement successful her distinguished vocation successful nationalist office, she's proven herself a principled and tenacious combatant for moving radical and a visionary person we tin number on," Shuler continued.

"From taking connected Wall Street and firm greed to starring efforts to grow affordable kid attraction and enactment susceptible workers, she's shown clip and again that she's connected our side. With Kamala Harris successful the White House, unneurotic we'll proceed to physique connected the almighty bequest of the Biden-Harris medication to make bully national jobs, turn the labour question and marque our system enactment for each of us," she added.

The enactment for Harris' run comes arsenic immoderate of the nation's largest unions besides person offered support, praise and outright endorsements to the vice president.

The Service Employees International Union, whose 2 cardinal members marque it the nation's largest backstage assemblage union, endorsed Harris connected Sunday. So did Local 3000 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, a labour enactment successful the Pacific Northwest, which drew attraction past week erstwhile it became the lone Biden-aligned national to telephone for him to measurement aside.

Vice President Kamala Harris thanked President Joe Biden for endorsing her successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention connected Monday.

"It is my large grant to person Joe's endorsement successful this race," Harris said portion speaking to run unit successful Delaware.

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and 2nd man Doug Emhoff code unit astatine her run office successful Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 22, 2024.

Echoing Biden's comments connected his committedness to the Democratic campaign, Harris said, "Joe is not done, acold from it."

"He knows determination is inactive much enactment to bash and our federation volition proceed to praise his bold and visionary enactment arsenic president," Harris said, adding, "Thank you, Joe."

Harris besides went connected the onslaught against Donald Trump astatine her run lawsuit successful Delaware connected Monday.

Watch the video beneath for her afloat code astatine run headquarters.

President Biden called successful to talk with Kamala Harris' run HQ connected Monday, saying helium "isn't going anywhere" aft announcing Sunday that he's stepping speech from his reelection bid.

"The sanction has changed astatine the apical of the ticket, but the ngo hasn't changed astatine all," Biden said implicit the phone. "And by the way, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to beryllium retired determination connected the run with her," helium added.

"I'm going to beryllium moving similar hell, some arsenic a sitting president, getting authorities passed, arsenic good arsenic successful campaigning," Biden said.