Election 2024 updates: Harris raises $50 million after Biden endorsement
ByAlexandra Hutzler, Julia Reinstein, Lauren Peller, Nadine El-Bawab, and Leah Sarnoff
Last Updated: July 22, 2024, 9:01 AM EDT
President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday came after heavy pressure from congressional Democrats, including Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and more than 30 House lawmakers.
Biden, 81, had resisted calls to step aside that grew almost daily following his poor performance in his June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump and persistent questions about his age and mental fitness. His decision comes just a few months before the Nov. 5 election.
Biden backed his vice president, Kamala Harris for the top of the ticket -- triggering many others in the party to issue statements backing Harris.
Latest headlines:
19 minutes ago
Manchin says he will not be running for the Democratic nomination
1 hour and 33 minutes ago
Harris could make 2024 'very close race,' Christie says
3 hours and 36 minutes ago
Harris raises about $50 million after Biden endorsement, campaign says
11:31 PM EDT
DNC leaders tell members to expect 'next steps' regarding nomination in 'coming days'
10:22 PM EDT
Democrats say they've raised $46.7M: 'Biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle'
Here's how the news is developing:
19 minutes ago
Manchin says he will not be running for the Democratic nomination
Independent Sen. Joe Manchin, who sources had told ABC News was considering re-registering as a Democrat to run for the presidential nomination, said on Monday he is not going to be campaigning to be atop the ticket in November.
"Let me make it very clear to you, Tony: I am not going to be a candidate for president, I am a candidate for basically speaking for the middle of this country," Manchin said on "CBS This Morning."
"I am not running for office, I could not believe that there was not going to be a primary process or a mini process. I don't need that as far as in my life, the attention that people think 'oh, when you speak up you're looking for attention.' Why is everybody afraid to speak up?" Manchin said.
Instead, Manchin said he was advocating for a "process" for selecting a "new generation" of leadership.
"I think a lot of people would like to see a mini primary -- that's the process," he said.
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin
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1 hour and 33 minutes ago
Harris could make 2024 'very close race,' Christie says
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has a good chance of making "this a very close race" against former President Donald Trump, former Gov. Chris Christie said Monday.
"Eight years ago, [Trump] ran against a woman for president. When he did, Hillary Clinton was a more known quantity and, quite frankly, was disliked by a lot of voters," Christie said on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Monday. "Kamala Harris is not personally disliked."
He added, "There's a question of respect and whether they respect her or not. And that's going to be in her control now. If she performs well she'll make this a very close race."
Former Gov. Chris Christie appears on ABC News' "Good Morning America," July 22, 2024.
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A decision about Harris' vice presidential running mate will be closely watched, he said, adding that choosing Gov. Josh Shapiro could deliver his home state of Pennsylvania, which "allows them to play in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona."
Christie, who faced Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the 2016 race, has become an outspoken critic of the former president. He had previously said a second Trump term would amount to a "vendetta presidency."
"And I think he will use the levers of government to punish the people who he believes have been disloyal to him or to his approach," Christie told ABC News earlier this year.
Christie was joined Monday on "GMA" by Democratic strategist and former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, who vowed the convention would have a "transparent process."
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile appears on ABC News' "Good Morning America," July 22, 2024.
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"We're going to continue to get the endorsements and, hopefully, at some point today or tomorrow the vice president will have enough delegates to secure the nomination," she said.
-ABC News' Kevin Shalvey
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3 hours and 36 minutes ago
Harris raises about $50 million after Biden endorsement, campaign says
In the hours since President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday afternoon, she has collected $49.6 million in grassroots donations, the campaign said.
-ABC News’ Rick Klein
3:52 AM EDT
Win With Black Women raises $1.5 million for Harris
More than 45,000 people gathered late Sunday on a Zoom call organized by Win With Black Women to support Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.
The group said it raised over $1,500,000 in about 100 minutes.
In this file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris attends an event in the Eisenhower Executive Off...Show more
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
The call was led by the group's founder, Jotaka Eaddy, and included lawyer Star Jones, Rep. Joyce Beatty and Shavon Arline-Bradley, the president and chief executive of National Council of Negro Women. Guests such as actor Jenifer Lewis and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Danette Anthony Reed chimed in with words of encouragement and wisdom.
Even after 1 a.m. on Monday, people continued trying to join the call, and donations kept pouring in. Zoom lifted the capacity limit to allow more people to join the call.
"Don't you ever lose faith in Black women," said Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, a former president of Spelman College.
-ABC News' Katrina J. Davis
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