Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave her ringing endorsement to Kamala Harris on Monday, as the vice-president secured donors and delegates to bring her closer to locking up her party’s nomination for the White House.
Pelosi, a longtime Democratic leader who was seen as instrumental in the behind-the-scenes campaign to push Biden to step aside, said she endorsed Harris’s bid “with immense pride and limitless optimism for our country’s future”. She added her support for Harris was “official, personal and political”.
The former speaker became the latest high-profile Democrat to throw her weight behind Harris’s run for the White House, as endorsements and money poured in for the vice-president’s candidacy. Biden endorsed Harris shortly after announcing his own decision to step aside on Sunday.