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>> raising a record $81 million in the first 24 hours and embracing her place in pop culture. >> you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? >> featured in a remix republicans already on the attack. >> i never hear that gratitude come through when i listen to kamala harris. >> will she get the nomination? plus, one-on-one with vermont senator bernie sanders, sharing his views on kamala harris. >> i'm 99% sure that the vice president will be the nominee, and that she has an excellent chance to win this election. >> they squared off as rivals for the democratic nomination and served side by side in the senate, honoring joe biden. >> i was strongly supportive of president biden because he was standing up for the working class of this country. >> and what is the state of the democratic party after that historic move? and -- ♪ sugar by honey ♪ >> remembering a motown legend.

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for the first time since that political bombshell as he stepped aside from the race. kamala harris, the first woman to serve as vice president, now the likely nominee, making her first campaign stop as she looks to become the official democratic nominee. >> and so over the next 106 day, we are going to take our case to the american people, and we are going to win. [ cheering ] >> juju: from the presidential headquarters in delaware, vice president kamala harris taking over the campaign office from joe biden. >> we are deeply, deeply grateful for his service to our nation. >> juju: who called into the event while recovering from covid after stepping down from the race. >> joe, are you watching? do you hear this clapping? can you see it? >> i'm watching. i'm watching. >> i knew it. >> juju: voters reacting to the news. >> i think for her to carry the torch makes sense. >> my big thing is making sure

that trump doesn't win. i would want to know too what her policies are. that's a big thing for me. >> juju: harris preparing for her biggest moment yet as she seems poised to become the first black woman and asian american to lead a major party ticket. she's been a trailblazer throughout her 30-plus years as a public servant. >> i will be the first, but i will not be the last. i was raised by a mother who said that to me all the time. >> juju: she has now wrapped up endorsement, including former speaker nancy pelosi, the newly launched harris campaign raising a record $81 million in the first 24 hours. as she steps into the spotlight, harris will face criticisms of her past, from both republicans over issues like immigration and democrats, wary of her time as a prosecutor and her sometimes bumpy public persona. >> i love ven diagrams. it's something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection,

right? i see people. you agree with me, right? >> we did it, we did it, joe! >> juju: some may think of harris in the context of her memorable moments and comments that have gone viral. >> my mother used to -- she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, "i don't know what's wrong with you young people. you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" >> juju: this moment once again flooding social media. >> you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? >> juju: pop star kesha releasing a remix of her song blow featuring harris. >> you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? >> juju: she has famously been portrayed by comedian maya rudolph on "snl." >> the democratic party needs to stop taking black women for granted, specifically one black woman, me. >> juju: to her husband doug and step children, the 59-year-old political veteran is mamula. >> i've had a lot of titles over

my career, and certainly vice president will be great, but mamula will always be the one that means the most. >> juju: her story began in a the san francisco bay area, a first generation american born to an indian mother and a jamaican father, who divorced when she was 6. for harris and her sister maya, their mother, shyamala, a breast cancer researcher, was her north star. >> my mother was fierce in her belief that you will be judged based on your actions, not your words. >> her mother raised her and maya as black women, because that's what they were. and it was a very intentful upbringing, and kamala really was proud of it. >> juju: a former experience was being bussed to school, something she talked about during a 2019 debate. >> there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. and she was bussed to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> juju: every school di of the year in berkeley, buses move

almost 3500 children across town. >> to be able to be bussed and go into this other environment, it transports you into a whole another little universe. it expands your mind. if the bus driver needed to say something and the kids were talking, kamala would make sure people tamped down so everyone can listen to what the bus driver was saying. >> we're going to be on tv? >> yeah. >> i recall her saying that she wouldn't be a senator if she hadn't had that opportunity. >> juju: she went on to study at howard, a historically black university where she was on the school's debate team, preparing for her law school at uc san francisco. >> she did the work. there was nothing given to her, and it was hard. she was one to not let anyone tell her who she was. >> juju: she worked her way up the political chain, first as deputy district attorney in oakland in the 1990s, prosecuting gang violence, drug trafficking, and sexual abuse. in 2004, she became the first woman in san francisco's history

to become district attorney. she was later elected california's attorney general, the first female and person of color in that position before going on to join the u.s. senate in 2017. at the time, she was only the second black female to become a u.s. senator. >> i intend to fight. i intend to fight for black lives matters. i intend to fight for truth and transparency and trust. >> juju: harris became known for her work on the judicial and intelligence committees with a strong stance and civil rights which she drilled brett kavanaugh about during his nomination hearing. >> can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body? >> i'm not a -- i'm not thinking of any right now, senator. >> juju: in 2019, she too ran for president. >> study think. well, think about this. >> juju: taking aim about donald

trump in this campaign ad. >> he is tearing us apart. she'll bring us together. >> juju: on the debate stage, she got tough with joe biden. >> it was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. >> juju: joe biden then tapping her as his running mate in august 2020. harris' debate skills were put to the test against vice president pence. >> joe biden has been very clear, he will not raise taxes on anybody who makes less than $400,000 a year. >> he said he'll repeal the trump tax cuts. >> mr. vice president, i'm speaking. i'm speaking. >> juju: her 2020 victory another first. >> and to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message. dream with ambition. lead with conviction, and see

yourselves in a way that others may not simply because they've never seen it before. but know that we will applaud you every step of the way. >> juju: as vice president, harris has taken the lead on the abortion rights issue following the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. >> america must trust women. america must honor individual choice. america must defend freedom. >> juju: in 2021, president biden tasking harris to lead diplomatic effort with three central american countries to address the root causes of migration. the white house praising her work, but republicans have hit her hard on the immigration issue. >> kamala had one job, one job. and that was to fix the border. now imagine her in charge of the entire country. >> juju: in 2021, after harris was criticized for not visiting the southern border yet as vice

president, she remained cagey in her response to nbc. >> at some point. we are going to the border. we've been to the border. >> juju: in her very first overseas trip as vice president, she told guatemalan migrants to not come to the u.s., drawing criticism from immigration advocates. >> do not come. the united states will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border. >> juju: while republicans had previously hammered biden for his age, the script has now been flipped. at 78, trump is now the oldest presidential nominee in history. trump reacting to the campaign shake-up on his truth social, posting a series of seething messages saying he will now have to start all over again. trump himself was once a supporter of kamala harris. he donated $6,000 to her 2014 campaign for reelection as california attorney general, including this check for $5,000. harris heading to wisconsin to campaign on tuesday.

>> we have doors to knock on. we have people to talk to. we have phone calls to make, and we have an election to win. [ cheering ] >> juju: ready with her own message. >> and are we willing to fight for it? >> yes! >> and when we fight -- >> we win! >> juju: president biden returns to washington, d.c. tomorrow. and coming up, the veepstveepstake s. who will kamala harris select as a running mate? and bernie sanders weighing in on the race for the white house. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ (♪) ♪ control is everything to me ♪ feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission

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as kamala harris looks to look up the democratic nomination for president, the focus is shifting to her running mate. the possible contenders from the key battleground states, and what they're saying about joining the ticket. >> kamala! kamala! >> today, a passing of the torch. a seismic generational shift as kamala harris ramps up her presidential campaign. the news of biden's departure makes this the first general election since 1976 without a bush, clinton, or biden on the ticket. >> this is absolutely an unprecedented situation when you have to go all the way back to 1968 when lyndon b. johnson announced that he was not going to be running again for office. >> as vice president kamala harris edges closer to getting the commitments from delegates she needs, speculation quickly turning to the veepstakes, with focus on big names in battleground states like arizona senator mark kelly.

>> harris' team, they're already talking about picking someone from a potential swing state, somebody who hails from one of these critical states that harris would need to win the presidency. they're trying to figure out a way that she can extend her reach beyond her typical base. >> in kentucky today, governor andy beshear amused about the possibility. >> i don't know how the vice president's process is going to go, but i certainly think what we've done here in kentucky is something that should be a model for the country. >> in president, governor josh shapiro was coy. >> i spoke to the vice president yesterday shortly after i spoke to the president. you know what we focused on? defeating donald trump. >> and in michigan, governor gretchen whitmer putting the rumors to rest. >> i'm note going anywhere. >> they'll stop at nothing. >> wasting no time, harris' team launching their first campaign ad. >> vice president harris hammers republicans on the issue of abortion rights for women. . >> with the democratic convention just weeks away in chicago, republicans taking aim at the likely nominee.

>> you, if you want to lead this country you should feel grateful for it. you should feel a sense of gratitude. and i never hear that gratitude come through when i listen to kamala harris. >> trump's running mate ohio senator j.d. vance making jabs while rallying in his home state and in virginia. >> a couple of elite democrats got in a smoke-filled room and decided to throw joe biden overboard. that is not how it works. that is a threat to democracy. >> with only 106 days before the election, both campaigns are digging in, ready for a fight. >> so i definitely think it's going to be ugly. i think that any democrat would tell you that kamala harris will do a better job prosecuting the case against donald trump than joe biden could at this point. >> juju: and we turn now to bernie sanders. he is one-on-one with our linsey davis on the state of the race. >> we've of course seen numerous democrats come together to endorse vice president harris, including at least 40 of your colleagues in the senate and former speak other telephone

house nancy pelosi. where do you stand tonight? >> well, i'm going to do everything i can to see that donald trump, the most dangerous president in american history, is defeated. i think kamala harris is going to be our candidate. i'm going to do everything i can to see that she gets elected. but my issue right now, my concern is i want to make sure that the vice president campaigns on issues of importance to the working class of this country. and if she does that, if she stands up to corporate greed and massive income and wealth inequality and talks about the need to raise the minimum wage to expand social security, to expand medicare, to demand that the wealthy start paying their share fair of taxes, not only can she win, i think she can win big. >> once she does that, if she does that, she will have your endorsement, no problem? >> absolutely. i'm going to do everything i can. i was strongly supportive of president biden because he was standing up for the working class of this country.

and i know that the vice president will do the same. >> of course, you ran for president in 2016 and 2020. both times you railed against the dnc establishment. vice president harris has said her intention is to earn and win this nomination. are you concerned at all about what you're seeing about how this process might by some appear not to be open and transparent, but rather a coronation? >> well, this has been a very unprecedented situation. i am not overjoyed about the way that president biden was treated. we are where we are right now, and i'm 99% sure that the vice president will be the nominee, and that she has an excellent chance to win this election. >> i'm curious your stance on you had people like congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson, who were both democratic candidates on state primary ballots across the country, but the dnc did not allow any room for anyone but biden. was that a mistake?

>> well, i know marianne, and she is a very, very intelligent, decent person and phillips i don't know. but, yeah, i think the idea of having serious debates among the candidates is always a positive idea. >> do you think that -- does the allegations are worthy of repeating that the dnc provided cover for biden? >> look, right now we are where we are at. we have donald trump who is raising enormous amounts of money from the richest people in this country. he is campaigning. we need to get going and kamala harris will be the candidate. >> and last question for you, senator. do you think that an open convention will strengthen the candidacy of vice president harris? >> i think there is almost universal support for the vice president right now. i think she is going to become the candidate, and i look forward to seeing her becoming the next president.

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and finally tonight, remembering a beloved member of the legendary motown group, the four tops. abdul "duke" fakir was the last surviving original member of the group. they were the soundtrack for a generation, known for hits like "can't help myself," "bernadette," "standing in the shadows of love," and "baby, i need your duke was the first tenor, smooth, and always sharp, he was touring until just last year. fakir died monday of heart failure at his home in detroit. he was 88. what a legacy. that's "nightline." we'll see you back here tomorrow same time. thanks for staying up wi