The Latest: Harris closes in on running mate pick
Vice President Kamala Harrisstruggling with the question of how to stay up early 2024 Presidential Election momentum lives, also prepares for a crucial week in which she makes her most crucial decision yet: choose a running mate.
Harris, a former prosecutor known for his consultations, effectively has a Tuesday deadline to select who will be her No. 2 from a list compiled stripped down to four governors, a senator and a cabinet official who was also one of her 2020 opponents. It is a decision under high pressure which normally takes several months, but in this case it has been reduced to a matter of just a few weeks.
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Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, told Fox News on Sunday that Harris’ choice doesn’t matter to him.
“Whoever she chooses, the problem will be Kamala Harris’s past and policies,” he said, adding that “it will not be good for the country.”
Harris and her running mate — whoever that may be — will embark on an aggressive seven-state tour, starting Tuesday in Philadelphia and passing through Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Her first rallies have drawn thousands of enthusiastic people. Campaign officials say each stop will be packed with local election officials, religious leaders, union members and more in an effort to showcase the diversity of her coalition.
Campaign officials are aware that momentum could be short-lived and are doing everything they can to capitalize on it now, while managing expectations by continuing to stress that the race with Republican nominee Donald Trump is tight.
Last weekend the vice president Kamala Harris’ campaign launched “Republicans for Harris” in an attempt to win over Republican voters turned off by Donald Trumps candidacy.
Harris’ team said the program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular focus on voters who supported former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a response to Republican Donald Trump’s efforts to appease restaurant and hotel workers by promising to tax free tips.
The pledge means the union is committing to have its members knock on Harris’s doors in more than 3.3 million homes in states where the vote is divided.