Kamala Harris is the obvious choice to succeed Biden.
The American president has announced that he supports his current vice president, Kamala Harris, to be nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate.
59-year-old Harris has a father from Jamaica and a mother from India, BNT recalls. She is the first black woman and the first woman to be the attorney general of the state of California. She is now the first woman and the first black vice president of the United States. But her rating is not high, which may make the Democrats look for another candidate.
Despite blazing a trail as the first female, black and South Asian vice president in US history, Harris, 59, has long struggled with low approval ratings.
However, the last 12 months have shown that the vice president has changed. And after Biden endorsed Harris, she suddenly found herself on the brink of history.
Harris will be hoping she has done the hard work to win the full support of her party at the height of the crisis.
As Biden faded over the past year, his “vice“ came out pushing for abortion rights and appealed to core voters, including suburban women and black men.
Harris is now likely to face Trump, a tough battle against the man who defeated Hillary Clinton in her bid to become the first woman president in 2016.
Trump and other Republicans have significantly stepped up their attacks on the vice president as Biden's lead has weakened and polls have shown Harris would do better in the election.