Comments Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced. It's testing Vance in his early days campaigning as part of Republicans' presidential ticket. During Vance’s Senate bid, he referred to Democrats as "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He said that included Harris. Vance said, “How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?” Harris' campaign says that “every single American has a stake in this country’s future.”

A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin as she opened her Democratic political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. In her first rally since locking up the presidential nomination, she said Tuesday that in the November election against Trump, “it's a choice between freedom and chaos.” In Washington, congressional Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Vice President Harris, capping their party’s swift embrace of her 2024 candidacy. Two days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and as the Democratic Party coalesces around Harris, she traveled to Milwaukee on Tuesday. She has raised more than $100 million since Sunday afternoon.

President Joe Biden is now testing negative for COVID-19 prior to his Oval Office address to the nation. His doctor has released a statement on Tuesday saying his symptoms are resolved. The president is scheduled to return to the White House on Tuesday and address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET regarding his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid. Biden posted on X that he’ll speak “on what lies ahead” and how he’ll “finish the job for the American people.” The president has not been seen publicly since July 17 but did call into a campaign meeting Monday to express support for Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid to replace him.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a particularly fraught one between two allies. The Israeli leader is coming to address Congress on Wednesday at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States. Netanyahu also aims to speak with U.S. leaders who are wary of his record of interjecting himself in American politics. At stake in the visit are hopes for progress in U.S.-led efforts to mediate an end to the nine-month Israel-Hamas war. President Joe Biden and Netanyahu are expected to meet Thursday, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a White House announcement. Vice President Kamala Harris will also meet with Netanyahu separately that day.