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• A growing number of Democrats have thrown their weight behind Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential nominee, including some considered possible challengers, in a sign the party is embracing her as its champion.
• Harris will need to secure the backing of at least 1,986 Democratic delegates to secure the party’s nomination. So far she has at least 531, according to US news outlet The Hill.
• Still, some notable Democrats, such as former President Barack Obama and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have not endorsed Harris.
• Former President Donald Trump said he will continue to campaign against the Biden administration’s record, and “we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly”.
• Speaking to reporters before flying to Washington, DC, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel remains the US’s most important ally in the Middle East, regardless of who is elected president.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said Vice President Kamala Harris so far made no contribution to Russian-US relations.

Peskov added that US politics were not a priority for Moscow, which is focused on achieving the goals of what President Vladimir Putin calls the “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Any Democratic candidate would likely continue Biden’s legacy of staunch military support for Ukraine. But frustration with the US has grown in Ukraine and Europe over the slow pace of US aid and restrictions on the use of Western weapons.

“Most Europeans realise that Ukraine is increasingly going to be their burden,” said Sudha David-Wilp, director of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a research institute. “Everyone is trying to get ready for all the possible outcomes.”

Donald Trump has promised to end Russia’s war on Ukraine in one day if elected – a prospect that’s raised fears in Ukraine that Russia might be allowed to keep territory it occupies.

Trump’s vice presidential pick, Ohio Senator JD Vance, is among Congress’s most vocal opponents of US aid for Ukraine and has further raised the stakes for Kyiv.

14:00 GMT in Washington, DC | Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has been summoned to testify at a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing into security lapses around the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump.

15:30 GMT in Washington, DC | Harris will deliver a speech to the women and men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association champion teams in her first public appearance since Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed her as his successor.

Should Kamala Harris become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Republicans are going to hit her early and hard with criticism.

“I am hearing from some Republicans that they are going to ‘flood the zone’, which in American terms means they are going to attack Kamala Harris to try and disable her at a very early stage,” Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports.

The goal is to target her on migration issues and inflation, while also accusing her of ignoring Biden’s health decline despite working closely together.

“So we are going to see a lot of posture and talking to try to stop her campaign even before it starts across the country,” Fisher said.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant thanked the US leader for his “unwavering support of Israel over the years”.

“Your steadfast backing, especially during the war, has been invaluable,” Gallant wrote on X.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised Biden as a “symbol of the unbreakable bond between our two peoples”, and a “true ally of the Jewish people”.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is set to meet Biden on Tuesday. Their history of cordial relations has come under strain during Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.

President Biden’s re-election bid abandonment creates global uncertainty at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia, and the rise of the far right in Europe.

During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal relationships with multiple foreign leaders that none of the potential replacements on the Democratic ticket can match.

Haaretz daily newspaper ran a story scrutinising Kamala Harris’s record of support for Israel, pointing to her reputation as Biden’s “bad cop” who vocally admonished Israel for its attack on Gaza. In recent months, she has gone further than Biden in calling for a ceasefire, denouncing Israel’s invasion of Rafah and expressing horror over the civilian death toll in Gaza.

“With Biden leaving, Israel has lost perhaps the last Zionist president,” said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul general in New York. “A new Democratic candidate will upend the dynamic.”

US Senator Peter Welch, the first Democratic senator to call on Biden to drop his re-election bid, called for an open nomination process for the next candidate.

The Democrats should have “an open process so that whoever our nominee is, including Kamala, has the strength of having a process that shows the consensus position of the party”, Welch said.

“The debate in the Democratic Party is who can carry on the legacy of President Biden and defeat Trump.”

Alan Minsky, from the Progressive Democrats of America, says it won’t be easy for potential challengers to take on Kamala Harris.

“As far as I know all of the names being mentioned as possible challengers have already announced their support for her so it seems to be a fait accompli at this point,” Minsky told Al Jazeera.

He highlighted the move by prominent Democrats such as Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi to hold back on their endorsement of Harris as a tactical strategy and “quite a shrewd move”.

“Therefore, when you get to the Democratic National Convention there could be a window open for a reversal.”

Bad poll numbers or a media appearance gone awry could still haunt Harris, but that seems unlikely at this point, Minsky added.

“I think there will be a so-called honeymoon for Kamala Harris as a candidate and her poll numbers will go up quite significantly.”

In contrast to the Israelis who can count on American support no matter who is in the White House, Palestinians have a tough choice.

On the one hand, they know Donald Trump cares very little for the Palestinian issue and they consider him hostile. On the other, Joe Biden will go down in history as a US president who enabled, funded and supported a genocide against the Palestinians.

So there isn’t love lost with Biden not seeking re-election. We haven’t heard any official Palestinian reaction thanking Biden for his relations or support. We have heard from ordinary Palestinians saying “good riddance”.

Maybe now Democrats will pick someone who not just shows more empathy but changes US policy.

Many voters expressed relief over the news that President Joe Biden would drop his re-election bid.

Jerod Keene, 40, an athletic trainer from Arizona, planned to vote for Biden in November but is thankful for the president’s decision calling it “inevitable”. Keene said he’s excited about the next candidate, hoping it will be Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden endorsed.

“Kamala Harris is the easiest pick based on the fact that she’s vice president and it would be tough for the party to try to go a different direction on that,” said Keene, who lives in Tucson. “And I think she seems ready.”

But George Ledbetter, a restaurant manager in the Detroit suburb of Harper Woods, said his first reaction to the news of Biden dropping out came down to a single word: “Why?”

“He’s a good president. I like Biden,” Ledbetter said. But, he added, “You gotta do what you gotta do.”

Ledbetter said he’ll support Harris despite his disappointment. “I think she can do it. First woman president, that’d be nice. African-American president. It’d be nice again.”

Speaking to reporters before flying to Washington, DC, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the Israeli-US relationship won’t change whomever is elected president.

“Israel is the most important ally of the United States in the Middle East, an irreplaceable ally,” he said.

The prime minister is scheduled to meet with Biden on Tuesday and to address the US Congress on Wednesday.

Netanyahu said the trip would be “an opportunity to thank” Biden for his support in Israel’s war on Gaza. The leaders will also discuss issues such as freeing captives held in Gaza and defeating Hamas.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has reported that efforts are ongoing to arrange a meeting between the Israeli prime minister and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The dollar eased slightly as investors gauged the implications of Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign and clear the way for another Democrat for Trump’s challenge.

The US currency slipped 0.03 percent to 157.435 yen. Commonwealth Bank of Australia strategist Joseph Capurso warned it’s too early to read much into the dollar’s reaction.

“The bottom line is what the polls show this week,” Capurso said, explaining a decline in odds for a Trump win should see the dollar weaken and vice versa.

“Harris might be a stronger candidate, but is it enough to turn the polls?”

The Democratic Party’s Rules Committee has called for a meeting on Wednesday to “implement a framework to select a new nominee, which will be open, transparent, fair and orderly”, according to Bloomberg News.

The meeting will be streamed live on the Democratic National Committee’s YouTube page.

The vice president will deliver remarks on the South Lawn of the White House at 11:30am local time (15:30 GMT) on Monday at an event celebrating the 2023-24 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship teams.

The previously scheduled event will be Harris’s first public appearance since Biden bowed out of the presidential race.