WASHNGTON: A majority of the Democratic members of the Senate and the House have now endorsed Harris’s candidacy, according to a tally by the Washington Post.
Some 30 of the party’s 51 senators and 137 of its 188 Representatives have now backed Harris.
Eleven of the party’s 23 governors have also thrown their support behind her.
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These include Senators Patty Murray of Washington, Mark Warner of Virginia, Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Representatives Cori Bush of Missouri and Nanette Barragan of California, who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
The vice president will deliver remarks on the South Lawn of the White House at 11:30am local time (1530 GMT) on Monday at an event celebrating the 2023-24 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship teams.
The previously scheduled event will be Harris’s first public appearance since Biden bowed out of the presidential race.
