Obama expected to endorse Harris soon, source says

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In this April 2022 photo, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama attend an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Former President Barack Obama is  predicted  to  advocate  Vice President Kamala Harris  quickly  and his  crew  has been  in contact  with the  marketing campaign , a  supply  advised  CNN.

Obama and Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee,  had been  in contact  regularly, and  he's  serving as a sounding board for her as he has over the  twenty years  they've  acknowledged  every  other, the  supply  said.


Obama, who didn't  without delay  advocate  Harris following President Joe Biden's  assertion  on Sunday that he  become  now no longer  looking for  reelection, believed it  become  essential  for the Democratic Party to have a  valid  technique  via  which delegates  pick out  their new nominee, and he thinks Harris is off to  an outstanding  start, the  supply  said.

News of Obama's  predicted  endorsement  become  first  said  through  NBC News.

Regarding Obama's  declaration  on Sunday, an adviser  advised  CNN that  the previous  president  become  taking the  identical  method  as he did  withinside the  2020 Democratic primary,  looking  carefully  with the  purpose  of being  capable of  unify the  birthday birthday celebration  whilst  a nominee is chosen –  whether or not  it  become  Harris or  a person  else.



Obama's  declaration  become  supposed  to  hold  the focal point  on Biden  at the  day he  introduced  he  become  not  looking for  a  2nd  term, the adviser said.

The former president  become  supportive of Biden's reelection  marketing campaign  as he attended  more than one  fundraisers that raised  hundreds of thousands  of dollars,  at the side of  taking part  in moderated conversations with Biden and sending messages encouraging supporters to chip in as  a part of  fundraising efforts.


Democrats  had been  transferring  speedy  withinside the  technique  to appoint  Harris  because the  birthday birthday celebration  followed  the  guidelines  on Wednesday that  they'll  use to  pick out  their presidential nominee, with  balloting  to  formally  nominate Harris  in all likelihood  to start  on August 1.

The  guidelines  name  for ceremonial votes for president and  vp ,  in addition to  a vote  at the  birthday birthday celebration  platform,  all through  the Democratic convention,  that is  scheduled to take  region  in Chicago from August 19-22. While the ceremonial presidential vote  may be  performed  as a roll  name , the vote for  vp  is  in all likelihood  to be a voice vote. Harris has  now no longer  but  decided on  a  strolling  mate.

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