Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are set to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, The Post has learned, becoming the last senior Democrats to embrace their party’s presumptive nominee.
The pair will announce their support for Harris at a press conference on Capitol Hill this afternoon after saying she was “off to a great start” on Monday in securing delegates from President Biden.
Harris clinched 2,214 Democratic delegates on Monday, according to a survey conducted by the Associated Press, surpassing the minimum of 1,976 needed to receive her party’s nomination.
House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) became the first top Democrat in Congress to endorse Harris on Monday, calling her “brilliantly astute” and claiming “full confidence that she will lead us to victory in November.”
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Democratic governors and state party chairs had already gotten in line to back the vice president’s rise to the top of the 2024 ticket.
Former President Barack Obama remains one of the few to hold out on Harris, celebrating Biden’s decision to withdraw on Sunday while expressing “extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”