Vice President Kamala Harris set her first public appearance as the Democratic presidential nominee on Monday — at the campaign headquarters that worked for Joe Biden until Sunday. And the party’s leadership has rallied behind her.
NEW YORK/WILMINGTON. Within 24 hours of President Joe Biden announcing he was withdrawing his candidacy for the White House, his would-be successor was firmly in control. Vice President Kamala Harris made her first public appearance as the Democratic presidential nominee Monday afternoon. In Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, she appeared before his campaign team. Biden’s headquarters is now Harris’s.
“Thank you all so much for what you are doing and what you will continue to do,” Harris told campaign staff, some of whom were still shaken by Sunday’s events. “I know: It’s been a rollercoaster ride. We all have mixed feelings about what happened.”
Call from Biden
Only a handful of Democratic staffers knew about it before President Biden posted his withdrawal statement on SMS on Sunday. The news came as a surprise to everyone. According to Politico, the Biden campaign team changed color within hours when their chairman announced that he saw Harris as the Democrats’ best candidate for the Nov. 5 election. Politico’s report said it was clear that the campaign machine had been turned to Harris.
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