Kamala Harris has reiterated that she is ready to take on Donald Trump in the United States presidential election, as the likely Democratic nominee held her first official campaign rally in her push for the White House.
Speaking to a crowd in the battleground state of Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon, the US vice president pledged to unite the Democratic Party “so that we are ready to win in November”.
“We have 105 days until Election Day and in that time, we have some work to do. But we’re not afraid of hard work,” Harris said. “And we will win this election.”
The rally in Milwaukee comes two days after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election race following weeks of questions about his age and fitness to serve another term in office.
While the US vice president has not officially been confirmed as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, The Associated Press news agency reported on Monday evening that Harris had secured enough votes from delegates to secure the nomination.
Harris’s candidacy has reinvigorated a US election campaign that had failed to captivate many voters frustrated by a choice between Biden and former President Trump, as well as by the state of the economy, American foreign policy and other issues
Since Biden’s decision on Sunday to forgo his re-election bid, Harris has garnered the backing of influential Democrats, including former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Governors Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Gavin Newsom of California.
The top Democrats in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, also threw their support behind Harris’s candidacy on Tuesday.
