President Biden has endorsed Vice President Harris to take over as the Democratic nominee to be president, but she’ll still need to secure enough delegates to officially replace him. Close to 4,000 delegates will gather at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago starting on August 17. Biden has won more than 3,800 of those...
Correction: A total of $47 million was donated via ActBlue to all races in the seven hours after Harris launched her campaign Sunday. A previous version of this article contained incorrect information. Small dollar-donors gave nearly $47 million on ActBlue in the seven hours after Vice President Harris's campaign for president launched Sunday afternoon, the...
Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday named one of his predecessors, Janet Napolitano, to a bipartisan panel of experts tasked with conducting a 45-day independent review of the attempted assassination of former President Trump. The panel will also include two security officials from former President George W. Bush’s administration, former Homeland Security Advisor Frances...
Republican strategists and donors said Sunday they're not worried about Vice President Harris becoming the new Democratic nominee, even though they believed their chances of defeating President Biden were at an all-time high. The Republicans, who for weeks have been salivating at the potential for Biden to drag down other Democrats on the ticket, acknowledged...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), seen as a top contender for a spot on the Democratic ticket, threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid for president. “Tough. Fearless. Tenacious,” Newsom wrote on the social platform X. “With our democracy at stake and our future on the line, no one is better to prosecute...
Democratic donors are throwing their support behind Vice President Harris as the nominee, following President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race. Key donors said they would support Harris, and others pledged to do the same in the immediate hours following Biden’s announcement. “This is exactly what we needed at this moment, some direction and hope,”...
Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.V.) is considering running against Vice President Harris for the Democratic nomination. A source familiar with Manchin confirmed that the West Virginia senator is considering reregistering as a Democrat to seek the nomination. Manchin had kicked around running a primary bid against President Biden, but ultimately decided against it. He also did...
Vice President Harris is racing to lock down support for her White House bid, just hours after President Biden announced that he would no longer seek reelection. Harris on Sunday spoke with the chairs of three key coalitions on Capitol Hill: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.) of...
President Biden is out of the 2024 race and backing Vice President Kamala Harris to take over his mantle in November, raising questions about what the polling can help us glean about her chances against Donald Trump in November. Though Harris still has to win over enough delegates before the party’s national convention next month...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) formally threw his support behind Vice President Harris to lead the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket in November following news President Biden will drop out of the race. “The best path forward for the Democratic Party is to quickly unite behind Vice President Harris and refocus on winning the presidency,” Shapiro...
Members of President Biden’s family are offering public words of support after his decision to drop out of the presidential race on Sunday. Naomi Biden, the president's grand-daughter, said she was proud of his decision to step aside. “I’m nothing but proud today of my Pop, our President, Joe Biden, who has served our country...
Democratic lawmakers and officials on Sunday rallied to back Vice President Harris to replace President Biden atop the party’s presidential ticket, boosting her in the hours after Biden announced he would not run for another four years in office. Harris was swiftly endorsed by Biden, former President Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep....
While Biden's endorsement doesn't automatically guarantee Harris the Democratic nomination, it still raises questions about how she might perform against Donald Trump in November.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) threw her support behind Vice President Harris as President Biden’s replacement while criticizing those who urged the president to step aside. Crockett praised Biden in a post on the social media platform X, saying that Democrats, not Biden, were “the problem.” Biden announced Sunday that he would be withdrawing from the...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) stopped short of endorsing Vice President Harris as the party’s new nominee on Sunday, after President Biden announced that he would not seek re-election, a notable omission as Democrats head into an uncharted path forward. Pelosi and Jeffries — both of whom were reported...
Robert De Niro, one of President Biden’s most fervent Hollywood backers, is calling his decision to drop out of the 2024 race an “act of shrewd politics and selfless patriotism.” “Joe Biden is stepping aside to clear the path for another Democrat to become president,” De Niro said in a statement to ITK on Sunday,...
One of the defining issues of the 2024 campaign was mostly absent from this year’s Republican convention, underlining the party’s desire to sidestep its own push to enact restrictive abortion policies in red states across the country. At the 2020 GOP convention, anti-abortion activists Abby Johnson and Deirdre Byrne were given speaking slots to argue...