President Joe Biden dropped out of the race late last month and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election, which takes place November 5.

Biden’s support led to a wave of endorsements from other politicians, world leaders, and notable figures in a wide range of fields as Harris officially began her campaign on July 21—but the path ahead is still littered with questions.

After Biden’s endorsement, the first big question was whether Harris would even be his replacement on the ticket, since even before he’d decided to leave the race, Democrats and the media had floated other names as potential contenders as well, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

But this week, Harris received enough party votes to be named the Democrats’ nominee. And now that she has her party’s full support, it’s time to see if voters will back her up.

Below, everything you need to know about Harris’s run ahead of Election Day.

How long does the Democratic Party have to choose a nominee?

On August 2, Harris secured enough votes from delegates to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison announced.

She is the first woman of color at the top of a major party’s ticket, and upon hearing the good news, she joined a call with supporters to say she is “honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee.”

“It’s not going to be easy. But we’re going to get this done,” she added. “As your future president, I know we are up to this fight.”

Democrats had to officially choose a presidential nominee ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which starts on August 19. To secure the nomination, the candidate needed to receive more votes from party delegates than all the others combined.

On August 1, a virtual voting process kicked off to formally designate Harris the nominee, as she had already been named by the Democratic National Committee as the only qualifying candidate. Three other candidates did not secure the necessary signatures from 300 delegates to appear on the virtual ballot. Delegates each got a secure ballot to cast their vote. Harris will be officially named the nominee when the virtual roll call ends on Monday, August 5.

Does Harris give the Democrats a better chance at beating Trump?

Currently, polls show that Harris performs better against the Republican nominee, former president Donald Trump, than Biden would, although she’ll still have to persuade voters in key battleground states. Of course, she has an advantage with an influential endorsement from Biden, and she has already been campaigning against Trump this year. Some Democrats have also argued that the party has an obligation to support the first woman, first Black woman, and first person of South Asian descent in the race to lead the United States.

Will Harris debate Trump?

Immediately after Biden dropped out of the race in July, Trump was noncommittal about whether he would still participate in the remaining debates that had already been scheduled. He has skipped debates before, and didn’t take part in any of the 2024 Republican presidential primary debates.

Then, on August 2, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he would be pulling out of the planned September 10 debate on ABC, saying his agreement with the network had been “terminated” once Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee. He then said he’d agreed to take part in a debate on Fox News on September 4, with slightly modified terms.

There was one small hitch, though: Harris had never agreed to the new plan—indeed, it was unclear whether her campaign was even contacted before Trump’s announcement. Describing the former president as “running scared,” Harris said she would stick with the originally agreed-upon date (September 10) and venue, and appear whether her opponent did or not.

The next week, on August 8, Trump reversed course and said at a press conference that he actually had agreed to the September 10 debate on ABC. (Though he misspoke and said NBC, his campaign clarified that he was referring to the ABC debate, The Washington Post reported.) He also reiterated his call for a September 4 debate on Fox and proposed another debate on September 25 on NBC.

“I look forward to the debates, because I think we have to set the record straight,” Trump said at the conference from his Mar-a-Lago home in south Florida. “I think it's very important that we have them. I hope she agrees to them … I think they’ll be very revealing.” He then called Harris a “bad debater.”

What happens to Biden’s campaign money?

It’s possible Harris will inherit the $91 million in campaign funds raised by the Biden-Harris ticket, as she is on the campaign filing documents. There is some debate, though, over whether Biden would need to be officially nominated as a candidate before a transfer could be made. The money would certainly give her campaign a boost.

Still, she might not even need it. On August 2, Harris’s campaign announced it had raised $310 million in July alone—even though she only announced her run on July 21.

With this sum, Harris has doubled Trump’s July fundraising haul of $138.7 million, which was actually unusually high, and boosted by the support he got from his party following his attempted assassination on July 13.

Who would be her vice president?

On August 6, after days of speculation about which way she’d lean when choosing her running mate, Harris announced Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential pick.

Read more about his views on the issues that matter to us here.