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Vice President Harris connected Sunday said she intends to gain and triumph the Democratic statesmanlike information aft President Biden stunningly dropped retired of the contention and endorsed her arsenic his successor.
“I americium honored to person the President’s endorsement and my volition is to gain and triumph this nomination,” she said successful a statement.
“Over the past year, I person traveled crossed the country, talking with Americans astir the wide prime successful this momentous election. And that is what I volition proceed to bash successful the days and weeks ahead. I volition bash everything successful my powerfulness to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to decision Donald Trump and his utmost Project 2025 agenda,” she added.
Biden withdrew from the 2024 race earlier connected Sunday, announcing helium volition nary longer question different 4 years successful office. He past endorsed Harris arsenic the Democratic Party’s nominee aft not initially endorsing her successful his missive announcing helium was dropping out.
The vice president thanked Biden for his decades of work and said his “remarkable bequest of accomplishment is unmatched successful modern American history.” She called his determination to backmost retired of the contention a “selfless and patriotic act” and she recalled archetypal getting to cognize Biden done his precocious son, Beau, who was an lawyer wide with Harris.
“We person 107 days until Election Day. Together, we volition fight. And together, we volition win,” Harris said.
Allies of erstwhile President Trump went connected the attack against Harris instantly connected Sunday aft Biden endorsed her.
“Kamala Harris is conscionable arsenic overmuch of a gag arsenic Biden is. Harris volition beryllium adjacent WORSE for the radical of our Nation than Joe Biden,” Trump run elder advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote successful a memo.
Biden’s afloat enactment for Harris to beryllium astatine the apical of the summons gives Democrats a wide successor with weeks to spell earlier the convention, but her becoming the nominee is not inevitable.
Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison connected Sunday said that the enactment volition spell guardant this week with selecting a nominee, not mentioning Harris specifically successful his statement.
“In the coming days, the Party volition undertake a transparent and orderly process to determination guardant arsenic a agreed Democratic Party with a campaigner who tin decision Donald Trump successful November,” helium said. “This process volition beryllium governed by established rules and procedures of the Party. Our delegates are prepared to instrumentality earnestly their work successful swiftly delivering a campaigner to the American people.”
Harris has been a staunch protagonist of Biden amid the governmental fallout since his dismal statement show past period that led to calls from astir 30 Democrats for him to measurement aside. She continued connected the run trail, astir precocious campaigning successful North Carolina, and has been a starring dependable retired of the Biden medication connected reproductive rights issues this run cycle.
Updated 4:24 p.m.
