Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has received the backing from more than the 1,976 pledged delegates needed to win the Democratic Party's nomination on the first ballot, as per reports
Joe Biden had heard from nearly every Democratic senator, pinging him over the last three weeks on his old-school flip phone
It's not certain, but very likely Harris will now be the Democratic candidate to face former Republican president Donald Trump in November
Ramaswamy alleged that this is a party and a movement on the Democrat side that has made it its core reason for existence to keep former president Trump out of office
The 82-year-old US president, who is in self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, called the campaign headquarters on Monday moments before Harris made the maiden address to the team
Earlier on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris swiftly consolidated support for her presidential bid and secured commitments from hundreds of convention delegates
The vice president told the campaign staffers on Monday that she was retaining the same team from the Biden-Harris campaign
Biden's support of Harris and the immediate coalescing of other party leaders around her makes her the prohibitive favourite to replace him at the top of the presidential ticket
Harris, 59, outlined a series of policies she promised to pursue including signing laws to protect abortion rights and ban assault rifles
The trip had been scheduled well before Biden's announcement on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the presidential race
Vance joked that he was upset he doesn't get to debate Harris now because she will face Trump on the debate stage in September
Over 8,88,000 grassroots donors made donations in the past 24 hours, 60 per cent of whom made their first contribution of the 2024 cycle
The convention rules committee will meet Wednesday to approve how the virtual roll call will work
Trump has boasted that he could end the conflict within 24 hours, and Ukrainians think any such settlement would be on Russia's terms
Talk of possible Republican legal challenges has been swirling since Democrats began discussing privately and publicly whether Biden should drop out of the race
Even if the campaign is something of a start-up, Harris does have a leg up. That's thanks to the existing Biden campaign infrastructure that she will inherit
Biden also plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House this week
The huge amount is based on a New York Times analysis of the online ticker of contributions maintained by ActBlue, the leading site processing Democratic donations
59-year-old Harris, whom Biden has endorsed, or virtually every other Democrat who could end up atop the ticket would deprive Trump of the argument, and might even be able to turn the tables on him
Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their party that he would be unable to defeat Republican Donald Trump.