ATLANTA—Vice President Kamala Harris rallied supporters during a July 30 campaign gathering that capped a rapid series of events, beginning with President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race on June 21, just 107 days ahead of the election.
Harris addressed a capacity crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at the Georgia Convocation Center, many of whom had waited 90 minutes or more in the searing heat and endured torrential rainfall to gain admittance.
That was followed quickly by Harris’s campaign announcement and a string of endorsements by high-profile party members, including former President Barack Obama.
The rally was Harris’s largest so far in what will be the briefest presidential campaign in the modern era, and it took place in a state where Biden’s margin of victory was just 0.3 percent in 2020….
