August 5, 2024 – 10:11 AM
US Vice President Kamala Harris met with and listened to potential vice presidential candidates on Sunday. CBS News ReportsAccording to the American news channel, the number of Democratic candidates for the vice presidential position has been reduced to five, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Mark Kelly, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have also traveled to Washington. According to CBS sources, Kamala Harris is also conducting formal interviews with candidates whose names have not yet appeared in the media, and it is not yet clear whether other potential candidates, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, have met with Harris. The vice presidential candidates include star politicians, former astronauts, and governors who achieved great victories, which we wrote about in detail here.
Current US Vice President Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee on Friday in a vote of party delegates. Harris must decide on his running mate before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19, and once that is announced, the two are expected to tour battleground states ahead of the US presidential election.
After US President Joe Biden announced on July 21 that he was withdrawing from the Democratic presidential nomination, Kamala Harris became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. She is the first black female presidential candidate in the United States, as well as the first presidential candidate of South Asian descent. If she defeats Donald Trump in the presidential election scheduled for November, she will be the first female president of the United States. In 2016, Hillary Clinton tried the same thing, but was defeated by Trump, who was then succeeded by Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden, as President of the United States after one term.
