Election Live Updates: Obama Endorses Harris, as Trump Prepares to Meet With Netanyahu
“Former President Barack Obama was the most prominent Democrat to have held out on endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Former President Donald J. Trump is set to meet with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Florida on Friday.
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Former President Barack Obama endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee, saying in a statement with Michelle Obama, the former first lady, that they would “do everything we can to elect Kamala Harris the next president of the United States.” Mr. Obama was the most prominent Democrat to have held out on endorsing Ms. Harris’s candidacy.
Ms. Harris accepted Mr. Obama’s endorsement in a phone call, a video of which her campaign released on Friday morning.
Former President Barack Obama endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, delivering Ms. Harris perhaps the most important missing piece in what has been a cascade of support from her party’s most influential leaders.
Mr. Obama, who has positioned himself as an impartial party elder and has remained neutral during Democratic primaries since he left office, had held back as endorsements poured in for Ms. Harris from all corners of the party after President Biden’s withdrawal from the race on Sunday.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is now officially on TikTok.
Ever since President Biden announced on Sunday that he would no longer be running for re-election and instead endorsed his vice president for the job, the social media platform has been inundated with memes about coconut trees, Brat summer and other fawning content related to Ms. Harris.
Advisers to former President Donald J. Trump said they would not commit to another debate, one they had already agreed to participate in, now that the Democrats have changed candidates from President Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump had agreed to two general election debates, the first of which took place on June 27. Mr. Biden’s performance was so calamitous that it began a four-week drumbeat toward his departure from the race.
Vice President Kamala Harris is making plans to announce a running mate by Aug. 7 and her aides are conducting the first round of interviews with people in consideration by video calls given the tight timeline, according to four people briefed on the plans.
If she meets the Aug. 7 deadline, Ms. Harris will have squeezed a process of vetting, choosing and introducing a running mate, which typically takes months, into just over three weeks.
Future Forward, which was the main super PAC backing President Biden’s re-election campaign, announced on Thursday that it would spend $50 million over the next three weeks on ads supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in six battleground states.
The super PAC’s first 30-second ad tells Ms. Harris’s political biography, tracing her career from the San Francisco district attorney’s office to the vice presidency.
The New York Times/Siena College Poll
July 22 to 24
If the 2024 presidential election were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Kamala Harris and Donald Trump?
Shaded areas represent margins of error.
Vice President Kamala Harris begins a 103-day sprint for the presidency in a virtual tie with former President Donald J. Trump, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll, as her fresh candidacy was quickly reuniting a Democratic Party that had been deeply fractured over President Biden.
Just days after the president abandoned his campaign under pressure from party leaders, the poll showed Democrats rallying behind Ms. Harris as the presumptive nominee, with only 14 percent saying they would prefer another option. An overwhelming 70 percent of Democratic voters said they wanted the party to speedily consolidate behind her rather than engage in a more competitive and drawn-out process“
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