JD Vance attacks Kamala Harris during solo campaign debut

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance (Paul Vernon/AP)

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance made his first solo campaign appearance a day after the White House race was thrown into upheaval when President Joe Biden dropped out.

The Ohio senator held a rally on Monday at his former high school in Middleton, his hometown, where he played up his local ties, praised running mate Donald Trump and attacked Democratic vice president Kamala Harris, who is now backed by more than half of the delegates needed to win her party’s nomination vote, according to an Associated Press survey.