Vice-president receives backing from top figures and rakes in $81m in 24 hours, before giving rousing speech to staff

Kamala Harris was closing in on the Democratic party’s presidential nomination on Monday after the former House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, joined a slew of Democratic heavyweights endorsing her run for the White House – and Harris gave a rousing evening speech to campaign staff, with Joe Biden calling in by phone to support her.

While Harris’s nomination still has to be officially confirmed by Democratic party delegates at or before their national convention in Chicago next month, Pelosi’s endorsement, which she said was “official, personal and political”, effectively clears the way for the vice-president to become the nominee after Biden announced on Sunday he would not seek re-election.

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