Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris will start her election campaign from Wisconsin - one of the states that will play a major role in determining the results of the elections, Reuters reported. This will be Harris's first election appearance as a candidate for the US presidency, after securing the support of a sufficient number of delegates from the Democratic Party and thus paving his way to the nomination, cited by BTA.
Harris became the party's presumptive nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday amid declining support for him in the battle against Republican rival Donald Trump.
Less than 36 hours after Biden announced his support for Harris, she secured the party's nomination last night by winning the support of a majority of the delegates who will decide the nomination, her campaign sources said.
"Tonight I am proud to have won the broad support I needed to be the Democratic nominee," Harris said late last night. "I look forward to officially accepting the nomination," she added.
An unofficial poll of delegates by The Associated Press shows that more than 2,500 delegates have announced their support for Harris, with 1,976 needed to win the vote in the coming weeks.
Technically, delegates could still change their minds, but no other candidate received votes in the AP poll. A total of 54 delegates have said they have not yet decided who they will vote for.
The trip to Wisconsin provides another opportunity for Harris, 59, a former California prosecutor, to reinvigorate the Democratic campaign and show that she is the best choice the party can make to defeat Trump. Harris is expected to make a statement at a political event in Milwaukee at 1:05 p.m. local time.
She will talk about how she plans to attack Trump on Monday, referring to the pursuit of "predators" and "imposters" in his past as San Francisco District Attorney and California Attorney General.
"So listen to me when I say that I know these types of people like Donald Trump," she said of her opponent, who is currently accused of sexual harassment in civil lawsuits. Other courts found fraud at his business, a charitable foundation and a private university.
Wisconsin is among the Rust Belt states, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, that every presidential candidate wants to win at all costs and where Biden trailed Trump.
"There are independents and young people who didn't like their decisions, and Harris has the chance to win them over,'' said Paul Kendrick, executive director of the Democratic organization Rust Belt Rising. (from English: The Rising Rust Belt), which often conducts surveys in swing states.
Harris is also fundraising for his campaign. Her team said yesterday that the vice president has raised $81 million since Biden dropped out on Sunday, nearly matching the $95 million the current president's campaign raised in late June.
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