Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential race. The next crucial decision will be selecting a running mate to complete the ticket.
After President Joe Biden endorsed Ms. Harris as the party’s nominee on July 21, several names have been floated as her potential running mate.
Gov. Josh Shapiro
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, 51, has emerged as a top contender for the vice presidential pick. Before assuming office in 2023, he served as the state’s attorney general from 2017 to 2023.
With President Joe Biden’s tectonic announcement that he will not run for reelection, Vice President Kamala Harris appears on the path to clinch the nomination. She has quickly secured endorsements from President Biden and many key Democrats.
If she is formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention next month, she will face former President Donald Trump in November in the race to the White House.
1. She’s 59 Years Old
Ms. Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, and is currently 59 years old.2. Her Father Is Black and Her Mother Was Indian
Ms. Harris’s father is Donald Harris, a black man of Jamaican descent, and her mother was Shymala Gopalan, now deceased, who was an immigrant from India.
Vice President Kamala Harris on July 22 secured the backing of the majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, less than two days after announcing her run for the presidency in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
By 11 p.m. ET on July 22, 2,574 pledged delegates had endorsed the vice president, according to a tally by The Epoch Times—more than 1,976 delegate majority needed to win the nomination.
Almost 4,000 delegates and 700 superdelegates will gather at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Aug. 19–22 to select the party’s presidential nominee. However, as delegates won’t cast their official nomination until the convention or if the party chooses to hold a virtual roll call ahead of the event, there is still a chance for new candidates to campaign and challenge Ms. Harris.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio—Chants of "fight, fight, fight" and waves of red and blue Trump–Vance signs filled the Middletown High School auditorium leading up to Sen. JD Vance's first solo rally as former President Donald Trump's running mate.
Mr. Vance grew up in this industrial town midway between Cincinnati and Dayton in southwest Ohio. He wrote a book, "Hillbilly Elegy," detailing his childhood in Middletown and Jackson, Kentucky. The book was brought to the small screen by director Ron Howard on Netflix. The book and the movie catapulted Mr. Vance to national prominence.
President Joe Biden pulled out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21 and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new party nominee.
Even with his endorsement of Ms. Harris, the future of the party ticket is uncertain, and Democrats must now navigate an unprecedented shift late in the election year. Ms. Harris has announced her intention to “earn and win this nomination.”
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled for Aug. 19–22 in Chicago, Illinois. Originally, the event would have been a coronation for President Biden as the Democratic nominee, but now the convention will see an open contest of nearly 4,700 delegates looking for a new challenger to pit against former President Donald Trump in November.
Vice President Kamala Harris secured a commanding list of endorsements for her presidential nomination bid in the hours that followed the announcement from President Joe Biden that he is stepping out of the 2024 race.
The list of endorsements included the chairs of all 50 state parties, convention delegates from at least four states, and some of the biggest names in the party, including the Clintons, the governors of California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and Democrat mega-donor Alex Soros.
The growing coalition behind Ms. Harris, which started with the endorsement from the president, has all but assured her as the party’s nominee to face GOP nominee former President Donald Trump in November.
“He looks forward to finishing his term and delivering more historic results for the American people,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates told news outlets in a statement.
Mr. Bates said that the president has already delivered strong economic growth and grown the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He said that the president’s agenda in the final months of the term includes lowering costs, creating jobs, and protecting Social Security.