Following president Joe Biden’s announcement to drop out of the US presidential race, the 81-year old has expressed support for his Vice President Kamala Harris to be the new Democratic party candidate in the upcoming elections, set to be held on November 5 this year. The Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, was seemingly glad to find out about this turn of events, saying that Harris is a weaker opponent than Biden.
21 July 2024
22:42 GMTThere needs to be an investigation into a possible conspiracy among American political circles and the media to manipulate the public regarding President Joe Biden’s health condition, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Biden announced that he would not seek re-election in a post on X (formerly Twitter), and Zakharova noted it was highly unusual to have just a screenshot of a letter posted on social media rather than a video or audio statement.
“In the modern world, filled with post-truth and deep fakes, it’s very important to leave no room for speculation,” Zakharova said.
- 22:35 GMT
Donald Trump has complained that after spending so much “time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden,” his campaign now has to “start all over again” and focus on Harris. “Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President?” he wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform.
Despite his complaint, Trump’s campaign was evidently expecting Biden to withdraw from the race, and released an ad attacking Harris within an hour of Biden’s announcement earlier on Sunday.
- 22:27 GMT
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has endorsed Harris, vowing to “do everything I can to help elect” Biden’s second-in-command in November. Ever since rumors of Biden’s dropping out began circulating, Shapiro’s name has repeatedly cropped up in American media as a potential running mate for Harris.
- 22:26 GMT
77 Democratic delegates from Tennessee have pledged to support Harris’ bid for the party’s nomination, Reuters has reported. Biden won the support of more than 3,000 delegates in the party’s largely symbolic primary elections, far above the 1,976 needed to clinch the nomination.
According to the news agency, Democratic party chairs at the state level are currently discussing transferring their support directly from Biden to Harris, a move that would lock her in as candidate before the Democratic National Convention next month.
- 22:17 GMT
The Biden-Harris campaign has rebranded itself as “Harris for President,” according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday. “Vice President Harris is now a candidate for United States President in the 2024 election and will henceforth be conducting campaign activities only in pursuit of that office,” her campaign wrote in a letter accompanying the filing.
The Democratic National Committee then filed paperwork to change the names of Joe Biden’s joint fundraising committees to the “Harris Victory Fund” and “Harris Action.”
Control of the Biden-Harris campaign’s war chest – which stood at just under $96 million at the end of June – hinges on Harris officially winning her party’s nomination for the presidency.
- 21:50 GMT
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has thanked Biden for his “friendship and steadfast support for the Israeli people over his decades long career.”
Ever since Israel declared war on Hamas in October, Biden’s “ironclad” support for the Jewish state has angered his party’s progressive wing. In an apparent gesture to these progressives, Biden froze the delivery of around 1,800 2,000-pound bombs to Israel earlier this summer. However, his administration has given Israel more than 14,000 of the same bombs, as well as drone-launched missiles and $6.5 billion in other military aid since October 7, according to Reuters.
- 21:38 GMT
Alex Soros, the son of Billionaire financier George Soros and heir to his father’s philanthropic empire, has endorsed Harris, describing her as “the best and most qualified candidate we have.”
George Soros funneled around $128 million to Democratic candidates and organizations during the midterm elections in 2022, and gifted $5 million to the main political action committee backing Biden the day after the president’s flubbed debate against Donald Trump last month.
- 21:25 GMT
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that he “heard last week that [Biden] would resign at this exact time and date. It was widespread knowledge in DC.”
“The real powers that be are discarding the old puppet in favor of one that has a better chance of fooling the public,” Musk wrote on X, which he owns.
Musk endorsed Donald Trump last week, after the Republican candidate narrowly avoided death during an assassination attempt at a campaign rally. The Wall Street Journal then reported that Musk plans to donate around $45 million per month to a political action committee backing Trump, although Musk dismissed the report as “FAKE GNUS [News]” in a reply to the newspaper on X.
- 20:46 GMT
Harris is “unfit and unqualified to be our president and commander in chief,” former Democrat and 2020 presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard has said. In a video posted on social media, Gabbard declared that “the prospect of Kamala Harris making decisions about war and peace and where to send my brothers and sisters in uniform…should be terrifying to every American.”
Gabbard, a military veteran and staunch isolationist, went on to claim that Harris would serve the same “elitist cabal of warmongers” who “call the shots” in Biden’s White House.
“If we cherish peace and freedom, if we love our country, we must vote against Kamala Harris…and vote for Donald Trump,” she concluded.
- 20:29 GMT
Should Harris be formally nominated as the Democratic party's presidential candidate, it will mark the first time in 56 years that an American political party has put forward a candidate who did not compete in any primary election. Harris dropped out of the race for the presidency in 2019 with her polling numbers in the single digits.
Hubert Humphrey was nominated by the Democratic Party in 1968, after President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek a second term in office. After his contentious nomination, Humphrey was defeated by Richard Nixon, with third-party candidate George Wallace winning five southern states.
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