Obamas Announce Support –

Kamala Harris has also received the last, long-awaited and important endorsement. After Joe Biden’s, and Nancy Pelosi’s very weighty one, the vice president has seen her nomination officially supported by the most popular Democratic couple in America: Michelle and Barack Obama. The endorsement was announced on Friday in a video showing Harris answering a phone call from the former presidential couple. “We called to say that Michelle and I couldn’t be more proud to support you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” the former president told Harris, who was filmed answering the call backstage at a campaign event, followed by a Secret Service agent.

“I can’t make this call without telling my girlfriend, Kamala, that I’m proud of you. This is going to be historic,” the former first lady said. “We’re going to have fun!” Harris replied. The vice president now definitely has the Democratic nomination in her pocket, whose official ratification will be little more than a bureaucratic step in the virtual delegate count that should begin on August 1. The party convention that will open in Chicago on August 19 will be above all a moment of celebration and an opportunity to illustrate the platform of a possible Harris presidency. By that time, the vice president will have already chosen her ticket mate.

The most likely names in the running are still the same: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro; Kentucky, North Carolina and Illinois Governors Andy Beshear, Roy Cooper, JB Pritzker. Meanwhile, in the Republican camp, after Harris’s entry into the race, Donald Trump’s choice to choose JD Vance as his vice-presidential candidate is being questioned. “The worst choice”, according to some Republican lawmakers, whose voices were collected by The Hill. The candidacy of 59-year-old Harris would have effectively made Vance’s choice as the “younger” half of the couple with Trump ‘useless’ and, due to her controversial positions on abortion, would risk alienating the Republicans’ fundamental female electorate.