Vice President Kamala Harris recalled the moment she received the phone call from President Biden informing her of his decision to drop out of the race, revealing that she had just finished eating pancakes with her family when she received the life-changing news.
Harris, 59, asserted she had no regrets about supporting Biden through all the trials and tribulations that culminated in concerns about his mental health.
“I might be giving away a little bit too much information,” Harris told CNN in her first interview Thursday since Biden withdrew.
“My family was with us, my nieces were with us, and we just had pancakes,” she continued.
“We were sitting down to work on the puzzle and the phone rang. It was Joe Biden. He told me what he'd decided to do.”
Harris added: “I asked him, ‘Are you sure?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’”
Biden, 81, told Harris he would support her as the Democratic nominee, with Harris stressing that “to be honest with you, my first thought was not about me, it was about him.”
Biden announced his bold decision to drop out of the race on July 21 after weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats following his poor performance in a CNN-moderated debate with former President Donald Trump in late June.
Immediately after Biden caved, he went all out to ensure Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, avoiding a convention that would hold, and Harris immediately spent hours on the phone rallying support and quickly clinching the nomination.
After nearly two weeks away from the White House, Biden is scheduled to appear alongside Harris in Pennsylvania on Monday in his first campaign rally since taking office.
The vice president will then face off against President Trump in a debate on September 10 in Philadelphia on ABC News.
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