Vice President Kamala Harris told supporters in Milwaukee that “the baton is in our hands.”
In the first rally of her presidential campaign, Kamala Harris greeted an exuberant crowd in Wisconsin and assailed the former president, telling them that she’d taken on fraudsters and cheaters as a prosecutor. “I know Donald Trump’s type,” she said.
Supporters, chanting Harris’s name, seemed to be releasing pent-up energy after weeks of uncertainty over the Democrats’ prospects. The vice president vowed to protect access to abortion and alluded to her relative youth, saying that “the baton is in our hands.”
Read about how the Biden campaign transformed into the Harris campaign.
Harris told the fired-up audience, “When we fight, we win!” before leaving the stage to Beyoncé’s “Freedom.” A report said the singer had given the campaign permission to use the song throughout the 15 weeks leading up to Election Day.
More from the race:
- Donald Trump said in a call with reporters that he “absolutely” would debate Harris and was “willing to do more than one debate.”
- A day after she locked up enough support to win the Democratic nomination, Harris got the backing of Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the two top Democrats in Congress. The actor and Democratic donor George Clooney also endorsed her.
- Interviews with Democratic delegates found no consensus about who Harris’s running mate should be. Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania seemed to be the front-runner.
- Online, the unflattering memes once used to denigrate Harris have become celebratory artifacts of her candidacy.
- President Biden said he would address the nation from the Oval Office tonight about “what lies ahead.”
- From Opinion: “I know she can beat Donald Trump,” Hillary Clinton writes of Harris in this guest essay.
Benjamin Netanyahu Goes to Washington
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to shore up support in the face of international censure over Israel’s war in Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will make his first address to Congress in four years today. The timing is far from ideal: He faces anger at home over the war in Gaza and his failure to free the hostages held by Hamas, while Washington is preoccupied by its own upheaval and divided over how Israel is conducting the war.
