US Vice President Kamala Harris thanked this Sunday President Joe Biden’s support for her to be his replacement in the race for the White Houseand has said she hopes to be the party’s choice to face Donald Trump in November. “I am honored to have the endorsement of the president.” and my intention is to win this nomination“, he said in a letter.

“Over the past year I have traveled across the country talking to Americans about the clear choice they will have to make in this momentous election and This is what I will continue to do in the coming days and weeks.“, has advanced.

Harris has pledged to do “everything in my power” to “unite the Democratic Party and unite our nation to defeat Donald Trump and his extremist Project 2025.”We have 107 days until the elections. Together we will fight. And together we will win,” he added.

Few Democrats support Kamala Harris

Democratic Party leaders reacted to Biden’s resignation on Sunday with a mixture of respect and emotionand only eIn some cases they explicitly seconded their support for Harris as successor. Before reporting on the process that is opening in the party for a new nomination, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison initially said he was “excited” because he still supported Biden’s candidacy and highlighted “his leadership over all these years,” NBC reported.

Meanwhile, former US President Barack Obama on Sunday called on the Democratic Party to nominate a “extraordinary candidate”” for the November elections, in a statement in which He avoided supporting the vice president as a future candidate. Obama has called the current president “a patriot of the first order” for having abandoned his re-election campaign today after weeks of internal pressure for his disastrous role in the electoral debate.

“In the coming days we will be sailing through uncharted waters, but I have enormous confidence that Our party leaders will be able to create a process from which an extraordinary candidate emerges“Obama said. The former president called for the Democratic National Convention to from next August 19 in Chicagowhere the party could nominate its candidate for the elections, “Joe Biden’s vision of a prosperous and united United States” is exhibited.

“I hope that each and every one of us is prepared to carry that message of hope and progress in November,” he added. Obama, however, did not mention Harris in the statement, whom Biden supports as his successor to face Trump on November 5.

For its part, the Democratic National Committee said Sunday that while the resignation of a presidential candidate with just over three months to go before the elections “it has no precedents”, in the coming days the party will undertake a “transparent and orderly” process to replace Biden.