Election 2024 updates: Harris interviewing top VP contenders Sunday, source says

Harris is expected to announce her running mate in the coming days.

ByIvan Pereira, Alexandra Hutzler, and Meredith Deliso
Last Updated: August 1, 2024, 9:29 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough Democratic Party delegate votes to become the party's nominee when voting ends on Monday, according to the Democratic National Committee. And Harris is just days away from naming her running mate.

Former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance, have spoken to voters across the country this past week as they sharpen their attacks on Harris.

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Aug 01, 2024, 9:29 AM EDT

DNC's virtual roll call underway

The Democratic National Committee's virtual voting process is underway -- a process that will formally designate Vice President Kamala Harris as the official presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.

Harris was already deemed the presumptive nominee by the DNC earlier this week after she emerged from a process, laid out by the party's Rules Committee, as the only qualified candidate.

The virtual roll call began at 9 a.m. ET Thursday and will go until 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 5.

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Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris gestures as she speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta, July 30, 2024.
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Jul 31, 2024, 9:02 PM EDT

Vance defends Trump's comments at NABJ, calls Harris a 'chameleon' and 'fake'

Former President Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, defended his comments at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) annual convention in Chicago Wednesday.

Ahead of his rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Vance told reporters he believes the media is "overreacting" to Trump's remarks at NABJ, where he questioned his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity.

Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance speaks during a campaign rally, July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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"I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now, she wants to be known as Black. So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black?" Trump said at the convention.

Vance told reporters Wednesday he found Trump's comments "hysterical" adding that he believes the former president "pointed out the fundamental chameleon-like nature of Kamala Harris."

"She is not who she pretends to be," Vance said of Harris. "She's flip-flopped on every issue. She's fake, she's phony," he added.

Jul 31, 2024, 10:13 PM EDT

Harris reacts to Trump's NABJ remarks: 'Same old show -- the divisiveness and the disrespect'

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out on the campaign trail on Wednesday night, reacting to former President Donald Trump's headline-making appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists earlier in the day.

While not calling out any specific comments, Harris said that Trump's appearance at the conference "was the same old show -- the divisiveness and the disrespect."

"And let me just say, the American people deserve better," Harris added as she addressed a Houston crowd at the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.'s Boulé. "The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth; a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts; we deserve a leader who understands that our differences, do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength."

-ABC News' Jolie Lash

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