Harris could become the first black female president of the United States.
Vice-President Kamala Harris will now need to take over the vast infrastructure of the Biden campaign, which has roughly 1,300 staff members and dozens of offices around the US.to lead the presidential ticket after ending his re-election campaign on July 21, raising the chance that she could be the first black woman to be president of the United States.
On a call with the Biden campaign staff on July 21, Ms Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden campaign chair, and Ms Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden campaign manager, informed the staff members that they were all now working for Harris for President, according to two people who listened to the call.Ms Harris already has connections to Ms Chavez Rodriguez, who served as Ms Harris’ state director when she was in the Senate.
Ms Harris got to know Mr Cooper when they were both attorneys-general of their states. The Vice-President travelled to North Carolina on July 18 to hold a campaign rally with Mr Cooper. Ms Harris elevated Ms Lorraine Voles, who served as director of communications for former vice-president Al Gore, to be her chief of staff. Ms Voles, a crisis communications expert, had previously advised Ms Harris on communications and had worked on the presidential campaigns of Mr Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Mr Walter Mondale in 1984.
But there are still other prominent Democrats, such as Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, who said before July 21 that they would favour an open-primary contest, in which Ms Harris would compete with other potential nominees. A person familiar with Mr Obama’s thinking said later on July 21 that the former president was following the same policy of neutrality he adopted during the 2020 Democratic primaries, when Mr Biden faced a field of competitors, and wanted to help unite the party once there was an official nominee.
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