Key endorsements pour in for Kamala Harris as VP selection nears
Vice President Kamala Harris received some key endorsements and laid the groundwork for announcing her running-mate on Tuesday. Harris requested vetting materials for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.
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Pro-Palestinian activists demonstrate near the Watergate hotel ahead of the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is visiting Washington to speak at the United States Congress this week in a context of tense relations between the two countries over the Gaza war. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Demonstrators have reportedly lined the street outside of the Watergate Hotel ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the House and Senate. One video shows an emblazoned image of Netanyahu upon the wall of the building.
Protestors gathered to denounce Netanyahu’s presence, which triggered the response of additional security from Washington, D.C. police and the U.S. Secret Service, which was beefed up for the expected gathering.
Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to Congress on Wednesday, and Republican lawmakers from around the country have called upon Vice President Kamala Harris to have her supporters and anti-Israel demonstrators to stand down.
“The Capitol Police has informed members and staff that an estimated 25,000 protestors – made up almost exclusively of political supporters and allies of expected Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris – will descend on the House of Representatives tomorrow to oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the House and Senate. This will not only disrupt but also potentially shut down the Congress,” California Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, said.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday to discuss the Israel-Hamas war, which is entering its 10th month. Harris isn’t expected to be at either Netanyahu appearance in Washington this week.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
Multi-billionaire Elon Musk used his X platform on Tuesday to take a jab at President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and the entire Democrat strategy following Biden’s announcement that he will not run for re-election in 2024 and the party’s handling of Harris as his replacement.
“About 3 weeks ago, the media told you that Biden was “sharp as a tack,” Musk tweeted with a rolling eye emoji behind it.
“2 days ago, the poor guy was basically forced at gunpoint to resign as Dem nominee. His staff weren’t even informed.
“Now they say Kamala is the best thing ever,” Musk ended with a facepalm emoji.
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) attends the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Tuesday urged Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian, to convince her supporters and anti-Israel supporters to “not descend on the Capitol” on Wednesday to oppose Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the House and Senate.
Issa said in a press release that tens of thousands of protestors could “potentially shut down the Congress.”
“The Capitol Police has informed members and staff that an estimated 25,000 protestors – made up almost exclusively of political supporters and allies of expected Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris – will descend on the House of Representatives tomorrow to oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the House and Senate. This will not only disrupt but also potentially shut down the Congress.
“Beginning last night and through today, the Capitol Police and House Administration have shared plans and procedures that detail extensive security measures, the closure of multiple House entrances, and the prohibition of all visitors not accompanied by an escort at all times. Barriers and fencing are already being set up with more to come throughout the day. All because an overwhelming mob of anti-Israel protesters and Kamala Harris political supporters are planning an overwhelming show of force. It is outrageous that the public is being denied available entry into Congress tomorrow. In America, the mob should not be allowed to win.
“Vice President Harris: Acknowledge the clear danger all of this represents. Use your voice, tell your supporters not to descend on the Capitol, not to force their way inside, and above all else, not prevent everyday citizens' peaceful and public access to the People’s House.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham called out Democrats’ efforts to "repackage" Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election on "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday night.
LAURA INGRAHAM: To support Kamala Harris after she's been Biden's vice president for almost four years requires us to enter a suspended reality. It's a political fantasy land, one where she doesn't have a record of utter failure on the economy, the border and, of course, inflation.
Now, although she ran a horrid 2020 primary campaign, although as VP she hit at — what, 92% staff turnover in three years? — they're trying hard to repackage her as a force to be reckoned with, a female Barack Obama.
Of course, Kamala couldn't do her fake reboot without some help...
Let's be clear: This is all propaganda. It's all hype. It's meant to distract voters from the damage that the Democrats have done to our country, but of course, Americans — you know, we actually live in the real world — and nothing Kamala said today in Wisconsin about key issues tracked with her and Biden's own record.
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele was mocked online for promoting an image that depicted Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as Captain America from Marvel Comics. (Kamala Harris photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images | Michael Steele photo by William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
MSNBC's Michael Steele was mocked for posting an image of Vice President Kamala Harris as Captain America Tuesday along with the caption, "Hey @realDonaldTrump. You ready for this?"
Last week, Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, was accused of pushing "conspiracy theories" when he questioned if former President Trump’s ear was actually hit by a high-caliber bullet.
This week he's getting blowback for what critics see as something similarly crazy: glorifying Harris as a Marvel superhero.
Read the full article about Michael Steele by Kendall Teitz
MSNBC’s Joy Reid said on Tuesday that Black people will look "real weird" if they do not vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Tuesday that Black people will look "real weird" if they do not vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November.
"Given just the stratospheric entrance of Vice President Kamala Harris into the presidential campaign, and she has now secured enough delegates to become the nominee, you’re going to look real crazy being on the other side of that line, particularly as a person of color, but really as anyone who claims to have any connection to the culture," Reid said in a video posted on her TikTok account.
"You’re going to look real weird and real lonely on that side," she added. "You're really going to look crazy being on that side given the cultural phenomenon of Vice President Kamala Devi Harris. She's about to make history. She's about to become the first woman president."
Read the full article about Joy Reid by Joshua Q. Nelson
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris arrives at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024. (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Former President Trump’s campaign filed an FEC complaint accusing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws.
The complaint, first reported by the New York Times, relates to the Biden campaign rolling its funds over to Harris' campaign after the president dropped out of the race on Sunday.
In the filing, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, the Trump campaign argued that Harris is "seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash."
David Warrington, who serves as general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the act "a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended."
"Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it," the filing concluded. "The Commission must not and cannot sit idly by while one candidate takes nearly one hundred million dollars from the authorized committee of another, in violation of the Act and the will of the donors who gave the money in the first place."
The Harris campaign told Fox News Digital that the complaint was "baseless."
“Team Harris will continue to build on our more than 250 coordinated offices and more than 1,300 coordinated staffers across the battleground states – just like we built on the $240 million cash on hand that we had at launch this week, raising $100 million in our first 36 hours and signing up 58,000 volunteers," the statement read.
"Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but baseless legal claims – like the ones they’ve made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections – will only distract them while we sign up volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election.”
Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
Former US President Bill Clinton, left, and Hillary Clinton, former US secretary of state, arrive to attend a state dinner in honor of Kenya's president William Ruto hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton praised Vice President Kamala Harris in a recent New York Times op-ed, writing that the politician "can and must" defeat former President Trump in November.
"She represents a fresh start for American politics," the former secretary of state wrote. "She can offer a hopeful, unifying vision. She is talented, experienced and ready to be president."
"And I know she can defeat Donald Trump," she added.
Clinton also predicted that Harris will fight against "sexism and double standards" in the coming months.
"I know a thing or two about how hard it can be for strong women candidates to fight through the sexism and double standards of American politics," Clinton wrote. "I’ve been called a witch, a 'nasty woman' and much worse. I was even burned in effigy."
Clinton also wrote that she looks forward to hearing Harris "prosecute a compelling case against Mr. Trump."
"A second Trump term would be much worse than the first," she argued. "Mr. Trump’s plans are more extreme, he is more unhinged, and the guardrails that constrained some of his worst instincts are gone."
Black Lives Matter criticized “installing” Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee after President Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, claiming it would make them the party of “hypocrites.”
The liberal group that came to prominence following the death of George Floyd in 2020, advocated for an open procedure “that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates."
Harris swiftly received enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee for the party after the president dropped his bid for the White House on Sunday, releasing the delegates he earned in the primary.
"We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs. Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites," the group said in a statement.
"Black Lives Matter demands that the [DNC] immediately host an informal, virtual snap primary across the country prior to the DNC convention in August."
"We call for the Rules Committee to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates. The current political landscape is unprecedented, with President Biden stepping aside in a manner never seen before. This moment calls for decisive action to protect the integrity of our democracy and the voices of Black voters," it said.
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Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss appeared on "Your World" Tuesday afternoon to discuss President Biden's shocking decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
Speaking to host Neil Cavuto, Truss said that British citizens are currently struggling with inflation and high taxes, similar to Americans.
"There are massive problems on the Southern border," Truss said of the U.S. "There's massive problems overseas because the Biden administration has pursued a policy of appeasement towards the likes of Iran and Russia."
"And also people are struggling economically with high prices. And Kamala Harris is going to change none of that," the conservative politician added.
Truss argued that Harris is "responsible for those policies," that she described.
"She has not delivered as vice president, and she's got the job now because of the crazy situation with President Biden retiring at the last minute, even though everybody in America knew that he was not up to the job," the former prime minister observed.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump may have a close race between them, according to a new poll.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in an extremely close contest, according to a new national poll conducted entirely after President Biden announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsing his vice president.
Trump, who last week was formally nominated as the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, stands at 46% support among registered voters in an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll.
Harris, who on Monday night said she had locked up the Democratic nomination thanks to verbal commitments from delegates at next month’s Democratic National Convention, stood at 45% support.
Trump’s one point edge is well within the survey’s sampling error. Nine percent of those questioned were undecided.
Independents surveyed backed Trump 46%-32% over Harris, with one in five undecided.
In a multi-candidate field, the poll indicates Harris and Trump deadlocked at 42% support, with Democrat turned independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 7% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West each at 1%.
The poll was conducted on Monday, the day after Biden ended his White House bid.
Rep. Andy Ogles filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Harris. (Getty Images)
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
The resolution cited "high crimes and misdemeanors" for the reasoning behind the impeachment attempt, according to a copy obtained by Fox News Digital.
The first article claimed Harris was responsible for "willful refusal to uphold the immigration laws" in her role as border czar. Ogles claimed that Harris refused to visit the southern border and demonstrated "a stark refusal to uphold the existing immigration laws, and a palpable indifference to people of the United States suffering as a result of the ongoing southern border crisis in the United States."
The second article claimed a "breach of public trust." Ogles charged that Harris "knowingly misled" Americans "to obfuscate the physical and cognitive well-being" of President Joe Biden.
The articles of impeachment come just two days after Biden withdrew from the 2024 president race, where Harris has risen as the top replacement for the president on the Democratic ticket.
Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this post.
In a new memo to the Trump campaign on Tuesday, veteran GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio says that the "Harris honeymoon" could result in a boost in her polls in the "short term" but that the "fundamentals of the race stay the same."
"[W]e will start to see public polling – particularly national public polls – where Harris is gaining on or even leading President Trump," Fabrizio said.
"Obviously, the situation we find ourselves in today is totally uncharted territory and has no modern historical parallel. But there are some things that haven’t changed. Due to the events of the past two weeks including our highly successful Convention, President Trump has seen a bump in his numbers in a number of recent public polls. Not surprising given that most candidates historically receive some type of bump."
"Given what has happened over the past couple of days and her impending VP choice, there is no question that Harris will get her bump earlier than the Democrat’s Convention. And that bump is likely to start showing itself over the next few days and will last a while until the race settles back down," he said.
"But the fundamentals of the race stay the same. The Democrats deposing one Nominee for another does NOT change voters discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border, housing costs not to mention concern over two foreign wars," he contineud ."Before long, Harris’ 'honeymoon' will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden’s partner and co-pilot."
EXCLUSIVE – Former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is demanding that a group claiming to represent former Haley voters who support the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris stop using her name.
"Kamala Harris and I are total opposites on every issue. Any attempt to use my name to support her or her agenda is deceptive and wrong," Haley said in a statement shared first with Fox News on Tuesday.
"I support Donald Trump because he understands we need to make America strong, safe, and prosperous."Haley's comments were directed toward a political action committee (PAC) that was previously known as "Haley Voters for Biden."
The group started featuring Harris' name on Sunday, after President Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president to succeed him as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Read the full story from Paul Steinhauser.
A Democratic Party megadonor doesn't believe VP Kamala Harris can beat former President Trump and is refusing to donate to her campaign.
Orlando-based attorney John Morgan, who donated $1 million to the Biden campaign, said he is now "out" as Harris is expected to become the Democratic nominee with the endorsement of President Biden."What I didn't like was a coronation instead of a convention.
I didn't like the idea of two or three people picking the nominee, because I believe a convention would have provided perhaps a stronger candidate," Morgan said on "The Ingraham Angle," Monday.
"I don't believe she can win."
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Elizabeth Heckman.
Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who is involved in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, is yet to endorse the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris despite recruiting her to the Senate and referring to her as a "friend."
Several high profile Democrats have endorsed Harris for president after President Biden stepped down but when contacted by Fox News Digital this week about his endorsement, Tester’s office pointed to a Sunday press release from Tester thanking Biden for his public service and his support of an open nomination process.
Tester’s office did not respond when asked if he would wait until the Democratic National Convention in August to endorse Harris given that talks of an open primary seem to have subsided and Harris has locked up the delegates necessary for the nomination.
Tester’s relationship with Harris goes back many years and the Montana senator was reportedly directly involved in recruiting Harris to the Senate in 2015 when he was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is facing renewed criticism for her past support of banning fracking, which she boldly proclaimed while running for president in 2019, particularly from critics pointing out the popularity of fracking in Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania.
"There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking," Harris said during a 2019 town hall on CNN as a presidential candidate.
"And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right? And then there has to be legislation, but, yes, that’s’ something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue and to your point we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the health and safety of communities."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella, said, "Kamala Harris is the most far left progressive presidential nominee in history, and extreme Democrats in the Rust Belt now own every single policy she supports."
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller.
President Biden is making his first public appearance since suspending his re-election campaign as he heads back to Washington, D.C.
Biden will board Air Force One to embark on the trip back to the White House after testing negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The White House had announced he caught the virus and tested positive late last week.
Joe Biden
President Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to his doctor.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor, wrote in a letter that Biden tested negative for the virus and his symptoms have gone away.
He noted that Biden never developed a fever and his vital signs were not negatively effected.
"He will continue to be monitored for any recurrence of illness," O'Connor said. "The President continues to perform all of his presidential duties. As always, I will continue to keep your office updated with any changes in his condition or treatment plan."
Vice President Kamala Harris raised $100 million from Sunday afternoon – when President Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president to succeed him as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee – through Monday night, her campaign announced on Tuesday morning.
And the Harris campaign also touted that the fundraising in the wake of the president's blockbuster news came from more than 1.1 million unique donors, with 62% of them first-time contributors.
The Harris campaign has been spotlighting the surge in fundraising, and in an email release on Monday afternoon highlighted that the money raised was the "largest 24-hour raise in presidential history.
"But the Harris campaign hasn't offered a breakdown of what percentage of the cash haul was raised online by small-dollar donations and what share came from top-dollar donors. The haul includes money raised by the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and joint fundraising committees.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser.
Vice President Kamala Harris' office told Fox News Digital Tuesday morning that she believes President Biden is currently capable of serving as president – after the sudden suspension of his campaign heightened concerns over his ability to complete his term.
After Biden dropped out of the presidential race, lawmakers immediately began to question Biden's ability to serve the remainder of his term if he is unable to seek re-election.
Former President Donald Trump demanded Harris say whether she believes Biden is currently fit to serve.
"Does Lyin’ Kamala Harris think Joe Biden is fit to run the U.S.A. for the next six months? She must answer the question. Now it appears Joe is delegating his Presidential Authority to unelected Washington Bureaucrats! He doesn’t even trust his Vice President. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Tuesday.
Asked if Harris believes Biden is currently capable of serving as president, the vice president's office told Fox News Digital, "yes."
"As the Vice President has said many times before, the nation is lucky to have President Biden leading our nation," Ernesto Apreza, press secretary to the vice president, said on Tuesday.
Staunch Biden ally Sen. Chris Coon, D-Del., dismissed concerns that Democratic leaders engaged in a cover-up of President Biden’s health leading up to the president ending his re-election bid on Sunday.
Coons appeared on "CNN This Morning" on Tuesday to assure voters that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the best candidate to run for president in Biden’s place in 2024 and admonished those wondering if the party was dishonest about the president’s frail condition.
"I think it’s BS," the lawmaker told anchor Kasie Hunt, dismissing concerns from critics and saying the issue was not "relevant."
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., denies that there was any cover-up of President Biden's health issues before he ended his re-election campaign.
Hunt asked Coons about this criticism, "I want to ask you, we know that one of the principal lines of attacks – and I‘ve talked to sources who say the polling shows this is a serious vulnerability – that Republicans are going to say that Kamala Harris knew that President Biden wasn‘t up to four more years."
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Gabriel Hays.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a press conference Tuesday that Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' plans to snub Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Joint Address Wednesday is "not a good look."
"You know, Madam Vice President, you say you want to be the leader of the free world and yet you can’t bring yourself to sit behind are our most important strategic ally in this moment," Johnson said Tuesday.
"That is not a good look for you. It’s not a good look for America. It’s not a good look for her party that she aims to to lead," he added.
"How can she be expected to be to be viewed as the leader if she can’t fulfill this basic responsibility? This is our duty it is your duty as the Vice President and the acting president of the Senate to sit in that rostrum and and host a foreign leader for their joint session. They’re addressed to a joint session," he said, adding that it may be an unprecedented event for the Vice President to decline that responsibility.
"I just think it’s outrageous," he said.
Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this update.
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is visiting Washington D.C. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, D.C., according to a U.S. official.
Netanyahu is visiting the nation's capital this week to address a joint session of Congress and speak with members as his country remains in an ongoing conflict with Hamas.
Biden has been isolated in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware since testing positive for COVID-19, but is expected to return to the White House Tuesday afternoon - his first public outing since dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
The president's health status sparked speculation over whether he would meet with Netanyahu during his visit, but the pair is currently expected to hold a meeting on Thursday.
Karine Jean-Pierre
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday responded to calls for President Biden to resign after ending his re-election bid over the weekend.
"He wants to continue to do the work," she said during an appearance on "The View."
"Three and a half years of unprecedented historic work. I think that shows what he's capable of doing. I think that shows how important his leadership is," she added.
According to Jean-Pierre, "We have so much more work to do, and he understands that."
She further emphasized, "this president is ready to continue to lead this country in a historic way."
Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president after revealing his decision to suspend his campaign. She quickly garnered enough pledged support from delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday.
President Biden will address the nation on Wednesday after his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential election.
Biden will speak to the American people about why he decided to exit the race and what he plans to focus on for the remaining six months of his first term.
His address will be delivered from the Oval Office, the White House said. The president is expected to be seen in public for the first time in six days on Tuesday as he returns to the nation's capital from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden has not appeared publicly since reportedly testing positive for COVID-19 last week. His only public remarks on his stunning decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election came Monday during a brief phone call into the campaign headquarters of Vice Presidential Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Chris Pandolfo.
Less than 36 hours after President Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Harris announced that she'd locked up the nomination.
"I am proud to have earned the support needed to become our party’s nominee," the vice president wrote in a social media post just after midnight early Tuesday morning.
Harris showcased that she'd won commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month's Democratic National Convention, which kicks off Aug. 19 in Chicago.
As much of the Democratic Party – including governors, senators and House members as well as party leaders – quickly coalesced behind Harris following Biden's blockbuster news, state delegations to the convention started huddling the past two days and announced their support for the vice president.
And an Associated Press survey of Democratic delegates indicated by late Monday that Harris had gone over the top.
Read the full story from Paul Steinhauser.
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In a statement on X Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., criticized Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for "refusing to attend" the Joint Address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Today’s Democrat Party has turned their back on our most precious ally Israel, instead seeking to appease the Democrat Party’s radical antisemitic base," Stefanik said.
"The American people will hold Kamala Harris and all elected Democrats accountable for their moral bankruptcy on Election Day," she said.
Vice President Kamala Harris declined to preside over a Wednesday joint address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because she will be in Indiana for an event that was previously scheduled, per an aide.
Harris, who on Monday became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president following President Biden's campaign suspension, will not be in attendance at the address and will not be able to preside.
With Harris's absence, the task ordinarily would fall to Senate President pro tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., but Murray reportedly refused to do so – and will instead be boycotting the address.
Kamala Harris reportedly declined to preside over a joint address of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Efforts made to reach Murray's office for comment were unsuccessful.
When Harris's office was asked if she would have agreed to preside over Netanyahu's address if she were going to be in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, an aide to the vice president said they would not answer hypothetical questions.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have only met face-to-face on six occasions since the beginning of June, according to a new report.
Harris has not seen the president all week as he has been sick with COVID-19, as the White House has said. But she also has not met with him many times in the last nearly two months.
According to an analysis by Real Clear Politics, since the start of June, Biden and Harris have met with each other in person only six times.
Despite the infrequent level of meetings, Harris described being a "first-hand witness" to Biden's fighting for Americans in remarks on Monday, listing several qualities she admires in him.
The most recent meeting between the two in person was for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) briefing following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
President Biden is scheduled to return to the White House for the first time since ending his re-election campaign.
Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday while campaigning in Nevada and has since been isolated at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home. Just days later, Biden made a sudden withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race via a written statement.
The president has not made any public appearances since both his diagnosis and suspending his re-election bid despite growing concerns over his fitness to serve.
After staying out of the public eye for almost a week, the president will reportedly travel from Delaware to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, according to the White House daily press schedule.
Vice President Kamala Harris will face increased scrutiny in the months ahead after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee on Sunday -- with conservative critics already zeroing in on past comments she has made about immigration and the border crisis.
Harris’s most high-profile role on immigration came when she was tasked by President Biden in 2021 with leading the diplomatic outreach to tackle the "root causes" of migration in the Northern Triangle countries. It led to her being dubbed the "border czar" by Republicans, although the White House has rejected that description.
Harris would visit Mexico and Guatemala in 2021 as part of that assignment, and she also paid a visit to the southern border in El Paso, Texas. A project to rally private-sector investment in the region via a call to action has seen more than $5.2 billion committed since May 2021 from over 50 companies and organizations. The number of encounters from those three countries has since fallen from over 700,000 in FY 21 to over 330,000 this fiscal year so far, although it is not clear to what extent it is connected to her efforts.
However, with the crisis at the border still an ongoing issue, Republicans and conservatives have already resurfaced Harris’ broader stances on immigration outside of her role as vice president. The Republican National Committee, within an hour of Biden stepping aside, posted a clip of Harris talking in 2018 about considering abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"I think there’s no question that we’ve got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing," she told MSNBC. "And we need to probably think about starting from scratch."
Celebrity actor George Clooney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday and praised President Biden for dropping out of the race, according to CNN.
Clooney's endorsement comes just weeks after he publicly called on Biden to withdraw. Clooney had said Biden's performance in-person at fundraising events was no better than what Americans had seen during his debate performance against former President Trump.
“President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He’s saving democracy once again. We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest," Clooney said in a statement.
Clooney is among a wave of Hollywood celebrities to throw their weight behind Harris following Biden's Sunday withdrawal. Top Democrats have also fallen in line behind the vice president.
Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened Joe Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he stepped down, sources told The Post.
The well-orchestrated "palace coup" to stop the faltering president seeking re-election has been in place for weeks, but stubborn Biden fought against it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family told The Post Monday.
The insider also made clear the anger, paranoia and frustration Biden displayed as the party elite circled around him and piled on the pressure.
Part of the "elaborate" strategy to remove Biden from the race – as he announced in a shock letter posted on X Sunday – was allowing him to debate Republican candidate Donald Trump last month on live TV in Atlanta.
During the car crash 90-minute debate, Biden appeared confused, slack-jawed and at one point he froze up, with his shocking performance turning the tide against him.
"That debate was a set-up to convince Democrats that he couldn’t run for president," the source said Monday.
As calls for him to bow out mounted, Biden insisted he would continue, but party bigwigs threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution.
The amendment allows for the vice president and members of the cabinet to declare he is unfit to serve and force him to step down, the source added.
This is an excerpt from an article by the New York Post
Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday with what some members of the media hailed as a speech that left them with "chills," "blown away" and arguing over who jumped out of their seat higher.
Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate on Sunday after President Biden announced via X that he would be dropping out of the race and endorsing her. On Monday, she gave her first campaign speech at what will now be her election headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
Harris spoke about her relationship with Biden, who called into the headquarters and publicly spoke, and focused on attacking former President Trump.
"In those [past] roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump's type," she said.
The speech, after weeks of internal fighting dividing the Democratic Party, was hailed by left-leaning media pundits as the perfect reintroduction of Harris to the country.
"There was a twinkle in her eye. There was a kick in her step that, you know, when you’re vice president…you’re not loose. There’s somebody above you, somebody you don’t want to overshadow them. And this was quite the coming out. I got chills when she said, ‘Donald Trump: I know your type.’ That was like, ‘Wow, she’s going to prosecute this case,’" MSNBC pundit Donny Deutsch said.
He continued, "And I was blown away. I was, like, I kind of fell in love with her. I thought she was smart, engaging. She’s funny, feisty, twinkle in your eye, punch you in the gut. I mean, everything you kind of want. And I just thought it was a great, great opening act."
"Bear with me, I’m jumping out of my seat over here watching this. People have been thirsting for this," "The Bulwark" podcast host Tim Miller exclaimed.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Lindsay Kornick
Vice President Harris will not say whether she is confident President Biden is currently capable of serving as commander in chief amid calls by lawmakers to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race on Sunday after his performance at the first presidential debate sparked concerns over his fitness and mental competency. After the sudden announcement, several lawmakers began to question the president's ability to serve the remainder of his term if he is not able to seek re-election.
After the announcement, Harris was quickly positioned as the Democrat replacement for Biden on the 2024 ticket, but some lawmakers – including Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. – don't want to wait until January for Biden to leave office.
Fox News Digital asked Harris whether she believes Biden is able to serve as president but did not receive a response despite several attempts to reach her office.
Biden has not made any public appearances since testing positive for COVID-19 last week and suddenly ending his re-election campaign just days later via a written statement. Fox News Digital also asked if the vice president knew where Biden has been the past several days and if they were in contact but did not receive a response by press time.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., sent a letter to Harris on Monday stating that Biden is unfit to serve and demanding she invoke the 25th Amendment.
"Joe Biden has decided he isn’t capable of being a candidate; in so doing his admission also means he cannot serve as President," Schmitt wrote. "Therefore, it is in the best immediate interest of the safety of the United States for Joe Biden to resign from office or face removal under the 25th Amendment."
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Aubry Spadie
Vice President Kamala Harris will not preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress this week, a major snub to the U.S. ally.
Harris' actions in Washington have taken on new importance since President Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed her on Sunday. While she is expected to meet with Netanyahu separately during his visit, she will not assume the traditional role of overseeing a joint session of Congress, according to NBC News.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., will instead preside over the event, the outlet reported.
Harris' staff has affirmed her support for Israel, but she may be more willing to criticize the longtime U.S. ally than Biden has.
Biden vowed on Monday that he would bring an end to the Gaza war and bring home American hostages being held by Hamas by the end of his term
Kamala Harris' policies as San Francisco District Attorney and California Attorney General could come back to haunt her as the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president, experts say.
"She’s one of these people who’ve talked out of both sides of her mouth, and she's going to have trouble with both the left and the right with the stances she’s taken over the years," Los Angeles-based criminal defense lawyer Nicole Castronovo told Fox News Digital.
Critics of potential presidential nominee Harris are calling attention to her backing of a controversial 2014 California law that some blame for unleashing rampant crime across the state.
As California's then attorney general, Harris and her office were responsible for writing up a summary of Proposition 47 to inform voters of its contents and intent.
Dubbed the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act," the legislation lessened penalties for a variety of crimes – including making the theft of items with a total value of less than $950 a misdemeanor.
That provision, critics assert, handed thieves a de facto carte blanche to plunder beleaguered retail outlets with near impunity.
"They changed sentencing to free criminals who should have been incarcerated and titled it with a misleading name," Castronovo noted. "But it actually made communities less safe."
Other crimes that were once felonies – including forgery, fraud, drug use, and the receiving of stolen goods valued under $950 – were also reclassified as misdemeanors.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Rebecca Rosenberg
Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, the first rally since launching her bid for the presidency.
Harris announced her presidential campaign Sunday night, shortly after President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election effort. The president subsequently endorsed Harris.
On Monday, Harris secured enough delegates for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, although the Democratic National Convention formally selecting the party's nominee will not be held until next month in Chicago.
The rally in Milwaukee will be Harris' ninth visit to Wisconsin since she was sworn in as vice president in 2021 and her fifth visit to the state so far this year, according to her campaign.
"We're proud to welcome Vice President Harris to Wisconsin, a state she once called home, where she will rally excited supporters after announcing her presidential campaign," the Harris campaign's Wisconsin Communications Director Brianna Johnson said in a press release.
Every major Democratic elected leader in Wisconsin has endorsed Harris' presidential campaign, according to her campaign. This includes Gov. Tony Evers and every Democratic statewide elected official, Sen. Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan, both state legislative Democratic leaders, the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and other cities across the state, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and more than 90% of Wisconsin delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Democrats established a coordinated campaign in Wisconsin to support Harris' White House bid, according to Johnson. There are 48 coordinated offices across 43 counties throughout the state with about 160 full-time staffers on the ground who have already started knocking on doors, making phone calls and contacting their friends and neighbors urging them to vote for Harris and Democrats in November.
"We'll continue to build on this success with events in every corner of the state this week, harnessing the grassroots energy for Kamala Harris that we'll see on display in Milwaukee tomorrow," Johnson said.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Landon Mion
President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
Although the White House press office told Fox News Digital on Monday that "health was not a factor" in the president's decision to withdraw, multiple doctors expressed concern about signs of cognitive decline after Biden’s widely criticized performance in the June 27 presidential debate.
Two medical experts told Fox News Digital their belief that Biden’s decision to step down is best for the president’s health.
Biden, however, isn’t the only president whose re-election was potentially thwarted by health issues or concerns. Here are five others.
1. Chester A. Arthur
After he was elected America’s 21st president in 1881, Chester Arthur experienced health complications due to malaria, which remained endemic in Washington, D.C., throughout the 19th century, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In 1882, Arthur continued to suffer from progressive fatigue, extreme weight loss and peripheral edema, the NIH reported.
After a closer health inspection, Arthur was diagnosed with Bright’s Disease, today known as chronic kidney disease.
2. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt took over as commander-in-chief at nearly 43 years old in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, according to the White House Historical Association.
Roosevelt was then re-elected in 1904.
After William Howard Taft’s term, which began in 1909, Roosevelt decided to re-join the race in 1912, creating his own "Bull Moose" party.
While campaigning on Oct. 14, 1912, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt was shot during an assassination attempt outside the Gilpatrick Hotel.
The bullet punctured the president's right chest, but did not damage his lungs. It was left lodged inside his ribs — which was deemed safer than operating.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Angelica Stabile
Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign has requested vetting materials from potential running mates for her White House run.
The potential Democrat vice presidential candidates include North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who has been rumored as a potential vice presidential candidate, told CNN he has not yet been asked to submit materials.
On Monday, Harris secured the delegates needed for the Democratic Party's nomination for president.
By Monday night, Harris secured the support of at least 2,579 delegates, according to a survey of delegates by The Associated Press , surpassing the 1,976 delegates she needs to win the nomination on a first ballot.
This comes after President Biden announced Sunday afternoon that he is suspending his re-election campaign.
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