In today’s Quickcast:
Vice president Kamala Harris in the spotlight…speaking for the first time — one day after President Joe Biden announced he was exiting the race for president.
Members of Florida’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention threw their support Monday to Vice President Kamala Harris, a day after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election campaign.
As part of a rapidly moving effort to coalesce support behind the vice president, a group of Florida party leaders held a call with reporters to back Harris’ bid to become president and pointed to increased enthusiasm they hope translates down the ballot.
"It is the Republicans’ dream to sit back and watch us fight each other and create chaos," said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Miami Gardens Democrat who chairs the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party. "But we don’t have to show them chaos. We can show them unity, and we can show them strength."
Biden, 81, faced growing pressure to leave the race after a poor showing June 27 during a debate with former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
After Biden’s announcement Sunday that he was dropping out and supporting Harris, Democrats across the country scrambled to declare a new allegiance and avoid a potentially chaotic, brokered convention next month in Chicago.
A man accused of stabbing a teen "multiple times" at Miami International Airport on Saturday night, and almost throwing her over a balcony, in an unprovoked attack appeared in Miami bond court on Monday.
Alexander Love, 29, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and attempted murder. A judge denied him bond on both counts and ordered him not to contact the 17-year-old directly, indirectly or on social media. Love was also ordered to stay away from the airport.
According to police, Love and the teen were on the fourth floor of Terminal J when he suddenly "attacked her by stabbing her multiple times and attempted to throw her over the railing."
The teen was sitting on the floor eating when she was stabbed 18 times in her arms, shoulders, neck, face and legs, according to Love’s arrest report.
She was able to escape and ran downstairs to the third floor, which is where officers found her. Love, who remained on the fourth floor, was taken into custody. Police said a knife was recovered.
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