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Election 2024 updates: Harris' VP search enters final phase

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

Last Updated: August 1, 2024, 11:07 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris is days away from naming her running mate -- and she is expected to soon become the official Democratic presidential nominee.

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.

Aug 01, 2024, 11:07 AM EDT

Trump doubles down on false racial attack against Harris

In a social media post Thursday morning, former President Donald Trump shared a family portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Your warmth, friendship, and love of your Indian Heritage are very much appreciated," Trump wrote as the caption.

His social media post doubles down on his false claim that Harris only emphasized her Asian-American heritage, something he mentioned during his interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday.

During the interview, he falsely questioned Harris' race. Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother.

"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 during the NABJ interview.

He went on to say that "she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she went -- she became a Black person."

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Soorin Kim and Kelsey Walsh

Aug 01, 2024, 10:46 AM EDT

Vance visiting southern border in Arizona

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance is visiting the southern border Thursday morning in Cochise County, Arizona.

Vance and Trump have sought to attack Harris over her handling of the border -- something President Joe Biden assigned her to oversee as vice president. The border and immigration are a major issue for voters this election.

Vance discussed the border and attacked Democrats during a rally in Arizona Wednesday night.

"They suspended deportations. They stopped building the wall. They reinstated catch and release. That's how every state became a border state: They just release them into our country. They fly them first class wherever they want to go and put them up in fancy hotels," Vance claimed. "You're paying for that, too. Then they proposed amnesty for millions of illegal aliens."

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Sen. J.D. Vance speaks to reporters in the spin room following the CNN Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump in Atlanta, GA, June 27, 2024.
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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.

Read more here.

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.

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