Kamala Harris says she has enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination

With her camp almost certain to be nominated, Kamala Harris is now testing her candidacy with voters: The Democratic Party is holding a rally on Tuesday in Wisconsin, a key state for her potential battle against Donald Trump.

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The vice president, who will replace Joe Biden on short notice after one of the biggest political upheavals in modern history, has less than four months to convince Americans of the strength of his profile.

At a campaign event in Delaware on Monday night, Kamala Harris, 50, gave a taste of what she’ll be like.

“I can see what Donald Trump is like,” the former attorney said, comparing the Republican nominee, who has been convicted of criminal charges, to a “predator” and a “crook.”

“We will win,” he promised to applause from pro-democracy activists.

The former senator from California also vowed to make abortion rights central to his campaign and “fight for the right to control one’s body.”

Trump’s coronation in Milwaukee

Many argue he will test with voters Tuesday during his first campaign rally in Milwaukee.

The choice of this Wisconsin metropolis, overlooking Lake Michigan, is apparently not a coincidence.

The city in the Great Lakes region hosted the Republican convention last week, during which Donald Trump was sworn in as his party’s nominee for the election.

A four-day high-profile meeting that illustrated the former president’s total control over Republicans. A millionaire who survived an assassination attempt was greeted with a hero’s welcome and crowned with fanfare.

“It must be Kamala.”

But Wisconsin is also, after all, one of five or six states that will decide the fate of the presidential election on November 5.

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden at this point, but it’s still too early to tell if Kamala Harris will actually have the edge against him if he is actually chosen as the Democratic nominee.

A choice without much doubt: A majority of Democratic delegates — the roughly 4,000 in charge of officially nominating the party’s nominee — have already announced their intention to back him, US media reported Monday evening.

Kamala Harris said, “I am proud to have the broad support necessary to become the Democratic nominee.” “I look forward to formal acceptance of this nomination as soon as possible,” between now and the party’s planned convention in Chicago in mid-August, he added.

The 59-year-old vice president already has the support of several governors, some of whom were seen as potential rivals, and other party heavyweights such as Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.

But former President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have yet to offer open support.

Joe Biden, who made a shock announcement on Sunday that he was dropping out of the race for the White House, urged Democrats on Monday to rally around his vice presidential nomination.

“It’s better,” promised the president, who will return to the White House on Tuesday after self-isolating at his vacation home, his voice still ringing from Covid.

To Phil Leiner, a Democratic activist interviewed by AFP in Pennsylvania, Ms Harris’s candidacy is clear.

“It would have to be Kamala Harris,” he said. Because if we don’t elect Kamala Harris, we will lose the election.