Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is expected to deliver remarks Wednesday evening at the Democratic National Convention next week, a source familiar with the planning told NBC News.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is also expected to speak in the prime-time hours of the convention Tuesday night.

Buttigieg and Pritzker were among the group of running mate contenders the Harris campaign's vetting team had met with before she ultimately chose Walz to join her on the ticket.

Will Stancil, who is primarily known for his frequent social media posts on U.S. politics, lost the primary election in his district for the Minnesota state House of Representatives.

He was defeated by Katie Jones, who won 43% of the vote in the deep blue district that represents several neighborhoods in Minneapolis.

Stancil, an attorney and civil rights advocate, wrote in a post on X late last night, “Hey, you can always lose an election, that’s politics. Nothing ventured nothing gained”

The Harris-Walz campaign is denying Walz had a “personal relationship” with a cleric who has spread antisemitic content on Facebook, after a video surfaced of Walz praising the cleric.

The Washington Examiner obtained the video. The outlet says it’s from an event hosted by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota during Walz’s first gubernatorial campaign in 2018. In the clip, Walz praises Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the organization hosting the event, as a “master teacher.”

Vance will speak this afternoon at a campaign rally in Byron Center, Michigan.

Later this week, he'll be in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Republicans should “quit whining” about Harris and turn their focus to policy and messaging.

“Republicans should not be surprised that we are now running against Kamala Harris. It was her all the time,” Haley told Fox News anchor Bret Baier yesterday. “There was no way Joe Biden, in the condition that we saw him, could take on the stresses of a presidential election. So that was something I believed in then. It’s why I constantly referred back to her, because I knew that Kamala Harris was the person that we had.”

“And the one thing Republicans have to stop doing: Quit whining about her,” she added. “We knew it was going to be her.” 

Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner was picked yesterday as the Democrats’ nominee to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Turner, 69, will appear on the November ballot after securing the most support from local Democratic precinct chairs during a party meeting in Houston. Jackson Lee had already won the Democratic nomination for what would have been a 16th term before her death July 19, leaving party officials to select her replacement.

Turner left the mayor’s office in January after serving eight years, the most allowed by term limits. He was previously a longtime state lawmaker.

The House district in Houston is solidly Democratic. Turner will face Republican challenger Lana Centonze.

Greek organizations tend to be the domain of colleges, with students pledging and developing lifelong connections in fraternities and sororities. But Harris’ presidential campaign is thrusting Black Greek organizations into the political sphere. She is the first presidential nominee to come from a Divine Nine Greek organization, so she would be the first president from the Black Greek system if she is elected.

That means Harris has ready access to the Divine Nine’s more than 2 million members — including activists, community leaders, philanthropists and more — and what could be a powerful voting and mobilization bloc. 

Harris, 59, is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority in the country and one of the Black sororities or fraternities that make up the “Divine Nine.” It’s a sisterhood that has rallied behind Harris since her ascent to the vice presidency, especially as the organizations encourage lifelong membership and community involvement beyond one’s college years. Last week, Kiahna W. Davis, a regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc., formed an AKA political action committee to support Harris.

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Walz will speak at a pair of campaign receptions today.

He'll be in Denver before he heads to Boston.

Trump will travel to Asheville, North Carolina, to speak about the U.S. economy at a rally.

Trump has made the economy one of his top campaign issues, with a particular focus on inflation.