Nancy Pelosi backs Kamala Harris as Democratic grandees fall into line

Vice-president clinches support across party as money pours into campaign war chest

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”.

Harris also clinched endorsements from Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, and Dick Durbin, the Illinois senator and second highest-ranking Democrat in the upper chamber of Congress. The steady stream of support from top Democrats could help the party avoid the potential chaos of an “open convention”, when delegates meet in Chicago next month to officially pick their presidential candidate.

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