Kamala Harris on phone with Biden, 100 other Democrats as she makes her case to be nominee
LA TimesVice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, N.C., on Thursday. Biden’s announcement ends weeks of hand-wringing among party leaders who urged him to leave the race after a disastrous debate performance last month left many Democrats fearing he was too old for office and unable to defeat former President Trump. In her own statement, Harris thanked Biden for his “extraordinary leadership.” “I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” she said. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.” Through his wins in Democratic primaries and caucuses in U.S. states and territories, Biden amassed nearly 4,000 party delegates who were pledged to vote for him to be the party nominee at the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 19 in Chicago. Politics Harris, with Biden endorsement, says she intends to ‘earn and win this nomination’ President Biden’s decision to bow out of the November election leaves a path for Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him that would have seemed unlikely for most of the last three years.