Wednesday Briefing: Democrats Unite Behind Kamala Harris

The top two Democrats in Congress endorsed Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential candidate yesterday, after she received commitments from enough delegates to secure the nomination.

The Democrats, Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, had waited to endorse Harris so they would not be seen as dictating the selection process.

“Now that the process has played out from the grass roots, bottom up, we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris,” Schumer said at a joint news conference in Washington.

Harris held the first rally of her campaign in the swing state of Wisconsin yesterday, telling an energized crowd that she’d convicted fraudsters and cheaters as a prosecutor and knows “Donald Trump’s type.” She highlighted the $100 million that her campaign had received in contributions since Sunday and took a victory lap for effectively wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination within 48 hours. Follow our coverage here.

Trump: Harris’s candidacy may bring out the former president’s tendency to personally attack female rivals.

Biden: The president said he would address the nation tonight for the first time since he ended his bid for re-election.