Joe Biden presidential election 2024

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  1. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz stand on stage at a campaign rally.

    Tim Walz “was probably the person with no organized group working against him,” said one aide to another vice presidential prospect. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO

    2024 Elections

    What Walz told Harris in his VP interview

    “I’m not angling for anything else.”

    In the dining room of the Naval Observatory on Sunday, Tim Walz sat across from his soon-to-be running mate for the biggest interview of his life. His message to Kamala Harris and her vetting team was one of deference.

    “I'm at the end of my career. This is not about me. This is about America's working families,” Walz told Harris and the vetting team, according to a person involved in the vice presidential vetting process who was granted anonymity to discuss the private meetings.

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  2. Vice President Kamala Harris waves.

    The Harris campaign raised $200 million since she took the top of the ticket. | Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

    2024 Elections

    100 days out, Dems are feeling something unusual: Optimism

    At Vice President Kamala Harris’ first big-dollar fundraiser and across the Sunday shows, Democrats were suddenly energized about a presidential race that brought them nothing but misery over the last month.

    PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts — Democrats are focused on what can be, unburdened by what has been.

    Sunday marks the start of the final 100 day sprint until Election Day. But it also marked one week since President Joe Biden withdrew and handed the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris. And Democrats from across the country were giddy to talk about the suddenly transformed race for the White House.

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  3. President Joe Biden stands, reflected in a mirror.

    David Hume Kennerly/Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona

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    Opinion | The Hard Questions Joe Biden Must Answer

    The president’s speech explaining why he will drop his reelection bid but finish his term is the most important one he will ever give.

    Opinion by JEFF GREENFIELD

    Not only will Joe Biden not be a two-term president — now he needs to convince the American public that he’s up to the job for another six months.

    Indeed, the speech Biden gives on Wednesday evening to announce the coming end of his political career also has to salvage it. Amid growing questions over his age and acuity, senior Republicans have called on Biden to resign or for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove him from office. Democrats have bristled at the notion, even as they’ve also been forced to acknowledge he’s lost more than a few steps after their pressure campaign to push him off the ticket.

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  9. A woman takes a photograph on her cell phone of Kamala Harris.

    A woman takes a photograph on her cell phone of Vice President Kamala Harris as she speaks at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in the Brooklyn borough of New York on July 28, 2022. | Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

    New York

    Black women in New York begin organizing for Kamala Harris

    Tens of thousands of Black women across the country joined a virtual call last night to fundraise and strategize.

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  12. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries listens as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with reporters.

    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries listens as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with reporters outside the West Wing after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington on Feb. 27, 2024. | Andrew Harnik/AP

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    Schumer, Jeffries will meet with the vice president 'shortly' in person

    In a joint statement, they stopped short of outright endorsing Kamala Harris but said she is “off to a great start."

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  18. Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) preside over a joint session of Congress.

    Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) preside over a joint session of Congress during which Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed U.S. senators and representatives at the U.S. Capitol, on Dec. 21, 2022. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

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    Pelosi endorses Harris: ‘I have full confidence she will lead us to victory’

    The two both have roots in California's Bay Area.

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