To discuss the future of the presidential race now, I'm joined by our politics Monday team.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR,

who joins us from Rehoboth Beach with the pool of reporters

covering President Biden. Great to see you both. So Amy you saw there Laura

reported earlier on just the deluge of support from Democratic lawmakers lining up behind Vice President Harris and

a lot of the names who'd been previously floated as potential challengers.

Governor Gavin Newsom of California, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.

Transportation Secretary Pete Butaj

judge have all endorsed her now.

Yes.

Why do you think the party coalesced around her so quickly?

I think they realized that it was getting late very quickly.

That doesn't that Yogi Berra, it's getting late early.

And that there's only three weeks until the convention.

We only have four months until election day and

that they had spent three weeks basically ringing their hands after the

June 27th debate about what to do about Joe Biden watching their poll

numbers really sink very deeply and down ballot candidates really starting to

get incredibly nervous about the impact of the top of the ticket on their own

races. So I think what they saw was that they needed to line up immediately

behind a different candidate and put all their effort

into making that work.

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