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Election 2024 updates: Harris thanks supporters during 1st rally in Wisconsin

Harris received key endorsements from Democratic leaders on Tuesday.

Last Updated: July 23, 2024, 3:24 PM EDT

After President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the party favorite to replace him at the top of the ticket.

Biden endorsed Harris on Sunday -- and, since then, a wave of others Democrats have done so. Harris on Monday secured enough delegates to become presumptive Democratic nominee, ABC News reported.

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Harris chastises Trump, thanks supporters during first rally in Wisconsin

Harris rallied voters in battleground Wisconsin on Tuesday, her first presidential campaign event since securing enough delegate pledges for the Democratic nomination if they keep their word -- and used the rally to sharply frame her race against former President Donald Trump.

Harris attacked Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, on the issue of abortion and Project 2025, the conservative presidential transition blueprint fronted by the Heritage Foundation.

"We'll stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not have the government tell them what to do," Harris said to raucous applause. "And when Congress passes the law to restore reproductive freedoms, as president of the United States, I will sign it into law."

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event, on July 23, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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During the rally, Harris touted her previous experience while making a dig at Trump.

"In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain," she said. "So, hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type."

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow and Sarah Beth Hensley

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Biden makes first appearance since dropping out of the race

Biden briefly spoke with reporters as he boarded Air Force One at Dover Air Base on Tuesday.

The president, who tested negative for COVID-19, said he was "feeling well," and didn't respond to questions about bowing out of the race.

Biden had a mask in hand, which he placed in his pocket after he got out of the car before getting on the plane.

President Joe Biden gestures before boarding Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Delaware, July 23, 2024.
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President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Del., on July 23, 2024.
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The president gave a salute and a thumbs up as he boarded.

-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett

1:24 PM EDT

Schumer, Jeffries endorse Harris

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 18, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries voiced their strong support for Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

"We are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris," Schumer said.

"We are brimming with excitement, enthusiasm and unity," Schumer said as he announced that Harris would be the candidate. "She said she would work to earn the support of our party and boy did she do so, in quick order."

Schumer noted a "surge of enthusiasm from every corner of our party uniting behind Vice President Harris." He touted her record and said her candidacy is the "next chapter in our quest" to ensure former President Donald Trump does not become retake the White House.

Jeffries said Harris is "ready, willing and able to lead us into the future."

"I am proud to strongly endorse Kamala Harris to be the 47th President of the United States of America," Jeffries said.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

12:51 PM EDT

Harris to Indianapolis on Wednesday

The White House has just sent details on two upcoming trips, one for Vice President Kamala Harris this week and one for President Joe Biden next week.

Harris will travel to Indianapolis on Wednesday to attend the biennial convention of one of the nation's largest historically Black sororities. This will be on the heels of her visit to Milwaukee today.

Vice President Kamala Harris attends an infrastructure event addressing high speed internet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, June 3, 2021.
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Biden will travel to Austin next Monday, July 29 -- a rescheduled visit to the LBJ Presidential Library for the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The president didn't go last week, as originally scheduled, in the aftermath of the assassination attempt.

-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett