Vice President Kamala Harris is officially running for president—she just needs to secure the Democratic party’s nomination first.
On Sunday, July 21, President Joe Biden, 81, announced his exit from the 2024 election following mounting pressure from members of his own party. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President, and while has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” Biden told the American people in a statement posted to X.com on July 21.
Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Harris, 59, as his top choice to run against Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump, 78. “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made,” Biden wrote in a second post. “Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats—it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
The President of the United States made the announcement on July 21.
Kamala Harris accepted the baton just a few hours later. “On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country,” she wrote in one post. “I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.”
In a second post calling for donations, Harris continued, “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.”
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Of course, Biden’s endorsement doesn't guarantee Kamala Harris the Democratic party's nomination. Ultimately, the choice will be made by 3,900 delegates at the Democratic National Convention, which is set to begin in Chicago on August 19. Other possible candidates include California’s Gavin Newsom, Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker, and Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro.
When Biden first announced his decision to back out of the presidential race, he described Harris as “an extraordinary partner” while thanking the American people for their “faith and trust.” He concluded his message: “I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can't do—when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.”
And could this meme actually help her become our first woman president?
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