$50M KAMPAIGN
Kamala Harris raised $50m in donations in one day after she was endorsed by Joe Biden
Biden had seen funds dry up after last month’s bumbling TV debate with Trump
KAMALA Harris raised $50million in donations yesterday as she emerged as Joe Biden’s likely replacement in the race for the White House.
Grassroots supporters rushed to back the US Vice President in what Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue said was its best day so far this year.
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Several of her potential rivals and influential Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi also got behind Harris.
Biden, 81 — recovering at his holiday home from Covid — endorsed her after deciding to quit. He had seen funds dry up following last month’s bumbling telly debate with Donald Trump.
He gave no reason for his decision but aides are said to have shown him polls confirming he would lose the November election.
Harris, 59, hailed Biden’s “unmatched” recent record.
Speaking for the first time in public since entering the presidential race, she said she first knew him through his son, Beau, when they worked together as attorney generals.
She said: “The qualities that Beau revered in his father are the same qualities that I have seen every day in our president.
“His honesty, his integrity, his commitment to his faith and his family, his big heart and his love, deep love of our country.”
Harris, who yesterday welcomed National Collegiate Athletics Association teams to the White House, said she planned to visit Democrat campaigners at the party’s Delaware HQ.
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She wrote: “One day down. 105 to go. Together, we’re going to win this.”
Trump’s team wasted no time in releasing an advert claiming Harris covered up Biden’s mental decline.
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In it she was accused, as “border czar”, of doing little to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.
Trump’s pick for Vice President, JD Vance, added: “Joe Biden has been the worst President in my lifetime and Kamala Harris has been right there with him every step of the way.
“She co-signed Biden’s open border and green scam policies. She owns all of these failures, and she lied for nearly four years about Biden’s mental capacity — saddling the nation with a president who can’t do the job.”
Ex-Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka accused Harris of being “the face of open borders” on our Never Mind the Ballots show.
Harris was last night still the only person to have put their name forward to replace Mr Biden.
‘We failed’ Trump on rally kill bid
SECRET Service director Kimberly Cheatle has said “we failed” over it not protecting Donald Trump from an assassination bid.
She told US lawmakers it had been the “most significant operational failure … in decades.”
Ms Cheatle was grilled yesterday on how gunman Thomas Crooks was able to shoot at the Republican presidential nominee at a rally on July 13.
Mr Trump, 78, was struck in the ear in the attack, while a former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore was killed and two other rally-goers were seriously injured.
Ms Cheatle told the House Oversight Committee in Washington DC: “On July 13, we failed. As the director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse.”
But she went on say she graded her agents efforts on the days as an “A”.
Ms Cheatle also said “adjustments” had been made to Vice President Kamala Harris’s security since President Joe Biden quit the re-election race.