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These are the main developments from Monday:

• Harris is set to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee after securing the support of some 2,668 delegates, according to a tally by The Associated Press, a number well beyond the 1,976 needed to win the party’s nomination.
• The vice president offered a sense of how she plans to attack Trump in a campaign speech, referring to her past of pursuing “predators” and “fraudsters” as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type,” she said of her rival, a convicted felon who was found liable for sexual assault in civil court.
• The Harris campaign raked in a record $81m in its first 24 hours, while some 28,000 new volunteers registered to help with her election bid, underscoring voter enthusiasm for the vice president.
• The chair of the Democratic National Committee said the party will deliver a presidential nominee by August 7, while the AP reported that the Democrats are planning to hold a virtual roll call in which delegates can choose a presidential nominee before they meet in person next month in Chicago.
• JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, held his first solo rally, branding Harris as a “million times worse” than Biden and accusing her of lying about his capacity to serve as president.

We’ve published several new pieces on the US election in the past few hours. Here are a few highlights:

• News: ‘I know Trump’s type’: Harris touts prosecutor past, gains most delegates
• Explainer: How Harris views the world – from Gaza and Russia to China and India
• Watch: What pushed Joe Biden to drop out?

And there’s plenty more here.

India’s Deccan Herald newspaper has reported that residents of Harris’s late mother’s ancestral village held special prayers for the vice president after she launched her presidential bid.

The villagers of Thulasendrapuram in the southern state of Tamil Nadu plan to hold daily prayers until she wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, it reported.

The director of the US Secret Service has told members of Congress that her officers failed in their duty to protect Donald Trump.

The Republican presidential candidate was grazed by a bullet, during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Kimberly Cheatle said it was her agency’s worst operational failure in decades. Many politicians on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee want her to resign.

Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi reports from the Capitol Hill, Washington, DC:

Let’s bring you up to speed:

• Harris says she has secured the backing of enough delegates to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee and is looking forward to formally accepting the nomination soon.
• An Associated Press survey shows Harris now has the support of 2,668 Democratic delegates, well beyond the 1,976 needed to win the party’s nomination.
• Biden, who will return to the White House after recovering from COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon, is set to meet Netanyahu on Thursday. Harris is also scheduled to meet the Israeli leader, but an exact date is yet to be announced.
• The vice president will make her first campaign stop as a presidential candidate in the battleground state of Wisconsin. She is scheduled to speak in Milwaukee at about 1pm local time on Tuesday.
• Lawyers for Trump have filed an appeal to overturn a nearly $500m civil fraud ruling in New York, claiming the judge’s findings that Trump lied to banks, insurers and others about his wealth were “erroneous” and “egregious”.

Lawyers for the Republican nominee have filed an appeal to overturn a nearly $500m civil fraud ruling in New York, claiming the judge’s findings that Trump lied to banks, insurers and others about his wealth were “erroneous” and “egregious”.

Trump posted a $175m bond in April to halt collection of the judgment and prevent the New York Attorney General’s office from seizing his assets while the court considers his appeal, which is scheduled for oral arguments in September.

The case is one of several Trump has been battling while running for re-election, including a Washington criminal case charging him with being involved in attempting to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and inciting the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.

However, that case was set back by a recent US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents may be immune from prosecution for acts committed within their constitutional powers as president.

Harris will make her first official campaign stop as a presidential candidate in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin.

The vice president is expected to arrive in the city of Milwaukee at about11:30am local time on Tuesday and speak at a campaign event just after 1pm, according to local media.

The vice president formally launched her bid for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination by meeting campaign staff in Wilmington, Delaware.

Watch Mike Hanna’s report on the day’s events below:

A three-word post on X from British singer Charli XCX simply saying “kamala IS brat” is one of several early signs that young voters are showing an interest in the vice president’s election campaign.

kamala IS brat

— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 22, 2024

The 31-year-old singer, who named her most recent album “BRAT”, was acknowledging something that had already taken off online, where viral memes were featuring clips of Harris dancing and joking against Charli XCX tracks.

The singer’s post sent the trend soaring, a phenomenon that could help Harris’s outreach to younger voters who could play a pivotal role in the November 5 election.

kamala harris is sooo brat pic.twitter.com/uNIid6AFIY

— ferald gord is unburdened by what has been 🥥🌴 (@ferald_gord) July 4, 2024

And the Harris campaign is leaning into it.

Shortly after Charli XCX’s post, the US vice president adopted the album’s lime green aesthetic for her “Kamala HQ” account.

Support for Harris’s bid to become the Democrats’s presidential nominee is piling up, including from former House Speaker Pelosi, but the top two Democrats in Congress have yet to endorse her.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a joint statement saying that Harris is “off to a great start” and said they would be sitting down with her soon.

But they stopped short of endorsing her presidential bid.

“She is rapidly picking up support from grass roots delegates from one end of the country to the other,” they said. “We look forward to meeting in person with Vice President Harris shortly as we collectively work to unify the Democratic Party and the country.”

A Hollywood embargo on political donations for the Democratic Party has ended, according to Reuters, as key fundraisers and celebrities endorsed Harris as the next Democratic nominee for US president.

These include rapper Cardi B, Singer Barbra Streisand, Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis and TV producer Shonda Rhimes.

Lost producer Damon Lindelof said he had halted what he called a “Dembargo”, a call for Hollywood backers to stop donating money to Democrats after Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June.

Lindelof, writing on Instagram, said he felt “profound relief, gratitude … and then, for the first time, genuine EXCITEMENT for the election ahead” after Biden’s withdrawal.

Disney heiress Abigail Disney, who had also called on Biden to drop out, told CNBC she was resuming her donations to Democrats and that she thought Harris would be an excellent candidate.

The AP news agency’s survey shows Harris now has the backing of 2,668 Democratic delegates, well beyond the 1,976 needed to win the party’s nomination.

Hours before Biden announced he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Democrats could face legal challenges if they changed their nominee.

“I think they have got legal hurdles in some of these states and it’ll be litigated, I would expect, on the ground there, and they will have to sort through all that. They have got a real problem,” Johnson said on CNN’s State of the Union.

Experts, however, told the Associated Press news agency that the timing of Biden’s exit makes it unlikely that any Republican ballot access challenges will succeed because the Democratic Party has not officially chosen its nominee.

“It’s a pretty frivolous claim,” said Trey Grayson, a former Republican secretary of state for Kentucky. “The filing deadlines haven’t passed yet, and the Democrats haven’t nominated anybody yet.”

Richard Winger, the editor of the Ballot Access News newsletter, also described the concept as “ridiculous”, noting there had been examples of nominees changing past the deadline, including in 1912 when the Republican vice presidential candidate died six days before the election.

Even before pressure mounted on the US president to withdraw from November’s election due to concerns about his age and fitness, he was losing the support of Americans over his handling of the economy.

Despite presiding over solid economic growth and low unemployment, Biden, who bowed out of the race on Sunday after weeks of turmoil around his candidacy, struggled to convince voters they were better off on his watch.

In May, weeks before a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump cemented perceptions of Biden’s decline, just 23 percent of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center viewed the economy as “excellent or good”.

Much bigger shares of Americans – 41 percent and 36 percent, respectively – rated the economy as “only fair” or “poor”.

Much of the dissatisfaction came from Biden’s own voter base, with the proportion of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters who viewed the economy positively falling from 44 percent in January to 37 percent in May.

Read more here.

August 7 – The Democratic Party promises to deliver a presidential nominee by the end of the first week of August. The party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call in which delegates to its convention can choose a presidential nominee before they meet in person for the Democratic National Convention.

August 19 to 22 – Democratic delegates are to officially select their 2024 presidential nominee at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.

August 27 – Democrats will be required to officially report their nominees to Iowa, the state with the earliest ballot-access deadline. Although Iowa’s law sets an earlier deadline of August 16, it makes an exception for late conventions by giving parties until five days after the convention ends.

September 10 – The ABC broadcaster is to host the second presidential debate.

November 5 – The US holds the presidential election.