Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and a string of state governors add their weight to the vice-president's bid to secure the Democratic Party's nomination as its candidate in the 2024 US election.
A day after US President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for re-election, the Democratic Party has largely unified behind Vice-President Kamala Harris .
All three are now seen as possible running mates. Also in the wide field of possible options are astronaut-turned-senator Mark Kelly, and Mr Biden's transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who built a strong supporter base when he sought the party's presidential nomination in 2020.Big donors have continued to back the vice-president with big money.
"It's the first full day of our campaign," Ms Harris posted on X, "so I'm heading up to Wilmington, DE later to say 'hello' to our staff in HQ." Campaign ads and emails attack her as complicit in a cover-up of Mr Biden's decline, a failure as his "border tsar" tasked with securing the US-Mexico border, and a "weak-on-crime prosecutor" when she was San Francisco's district attorney between 2004-2010.Joe Biden limped on for three weeks. But in doing so, gave Kamala Harris her best chanceWorld Politics
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