By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris is more likely to be part of President Joe Biden on stage on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago on Monday as he passes the torch to her because the social gathering’s candidate within the Nov. 5 presidential election, sources mentioned on Saturday.
Biden, who stepped apart from working for re-election a month in the past underneath strain from fellow Democrats, will give a prime-time deal with to the conference on Monday evening to make the case for electing Harris and defeating former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate.
Two sources conversant in inside deliberations mentioned the marketing campaign has been discussing having Biden and Harris seem on stage collectively on Monday evening and that it was more likely to occur. There even have been talks about her showing earlier than Biden speaks on the massive occasion.
Harris can be coming off a bus tour of western Pennsylvania on Sunday. She can be in Chicago for a lot of the essential conference week. She’s going to make a facet journey to Milwaukee on Tuesday for a marketing campaign occasion, returning to Chicago to listen to her husband, Doug Emhoff, deal with the conference that evening.
Biden, 81, reluctantly deserted his re-election bid after Democrats raised questions on his psychological health after a poor debate efficiency in opposition to Trump on June 27.
The president advised reporters on Friday evening that he would spend the weekend fine-tuning his conference speech. His message for the conference?
“Win,” he mentioned with a smile.
Biden had misplaced floor to Trump in some polls after the talk and Harris, 59, has made the race a extra aggressive one in a number of states the place the election is more likely to be determined.
