Welcome to the news hour. Vice President Kamala Harris is entering uncharted

territory after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the

presidential race yesterday. One day later, Harris is already the favorite to win the Democratic Party nomination for president.

Laura Braun Lopez has the latest. Greeted by a resounding applause, Vice President Harris arrived at her campaign

office in Wilmington, Delaware this afternoon, ahead of her first campaign event as a

presidential candidate.

With the COVID, excuse me with.

It comes 25 days after President Biden's disastrous debate performance that raised questions

about his ability to run.

There are very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our

party.

For weeks the president faced mounting pressure from allies in his own party to end his campaign.

I am running and going to win again.

But he insisted that he was all in and almost nothing could convince him to drop out.

If the Lord Almighty came out and said,

Joe, get out of the race,

I get out of the race,

the Lord Almighty's not coming down.

Then during a weekend of isolation

at his home in Delaware, with a COVID diagnosis, President Biden announced his decision. He wrote in a

letter posted on the social media site X Sunday,

It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president, but it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down.

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