Election 2024 live: Kamala Harris’s vice president announcement looms as candidate sparks rumors with X post

US Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is believed to be on the verge of announcing who her 2024 running mate will be.

The final list includes Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Minnestota Governor Tim Walz.

Kelly, Walz and Shapiro all interviewed at Harris’s residence in Washington DC on Sunday, with the former muddying the waters somewhat by tweeting and then deleting a post in which he declared, “Now my mission is serving Arizonans,” seemingly suggesting he is no longer in contention.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was meanwhile at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, with his own running mate JD Vance on Saturday as his campaign doubled down on his attacks on Harris’s ethnicity.

Trump told a conference of Black journalists last week that the Democrat “happened to turn Black” only recently.

Harris and Trump are virtually tied in the race for the White House, according to new polling.

Trump is at 49 per cent support, compared to Harris’s 47 per cent, according to CNN’s Poll of Polls — an average of the four most recent national polls.

The Republican has insisted that he and running mate JD Vance aren’t “the weird ones” as the presidential candidate fights to combat Democrat messaging to the contrary.

Trump made the remarks Thursday on the The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, a conservative political podcast, following days of messaging from Kamala Harris’s campaign dubbing her rivals “weird.”

“Well, they’re the weird ones, and if you’ve ever seen [Harris] with the laugh and everything else, that’s a weird deal going on there,” he said.

“They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of