In just one day, support for Kamala Harris snowballed.
After endorsements from Democratic heavyweights, Harris now has the backing
of enough delegates to clinch her party's presidential nomination.
The US vice president celebrated the news on social media,
saying I'm proud to event the support needed to become
our party's nominee, adding I fully intend to unite our
party and our nation and defeat Donald Trump.
The news came after Harris addressed campaign workers in Delaware,
the former prosecutor offering them a sense of how she
plans to take on her Republican opponent.
I took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused
women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the
rules for their own gain.
So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's
type.
There'd been speculation on whether anyone would challenge Harris for
the presidential nomination.
Put on her first full day of campaigning, no one
stepped forward, her major potential rivals instead rallying around her,
including Governors Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer.
And Harris isn't just earning endorsements, but also money with
large and small donations.
Her campaign raised a staggering $81,000,000 in 24 hours, a
record-breaking sum, another sign of the reinvigoration of a Democratic
presidential campaign that until now was in crisis.