Vice President Kamala Harris Confirms Her Presidential Run After Receiving Joe Biden’s Endorsement

Vice President Kamala Harris is officially running for president—she just needs to secure the Democratic party’s nomination first.

Just a few hours ago, President Joe Biden, 81, announced his exit from the 2024 election following mounting pressure from members of his own party. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President, and while has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” Biden told the American people in a statement posted to X.com on July 21.

Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Harris, 59, as his top choice to run against Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump, 78. “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made,” Biden wrote in a second post. “Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats—it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”

Kamala Harris accepted the baton just a few hours later. “On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country,” she wrote in one post. “I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.”

In a second post calling for donations, Harris continued, “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.”