Vice President Kamala Harris has described calling her pastor after President Joe Biden dropped out of this year's presidential election and endorsed her due to "the gravity of the moment."
Biden announced that he would no longer being seeking the Democratic nomination for president on July 21, shortly after informing Harris of his decision in a phone call to his 2020 running mate.
Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper at a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Wednesday night that she called her pastor, Reverend Amos C. Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, after hearing the news.
"It was an extraordinary day, that Sunday when the president called me," Harris said. "I instinctively understood the gravity of the moment, the seriousness of the moment. I didn't predict or know exactly how that day would play out. Obviously, now it's been three months since I've been at the top of the ticket."
"I just called him, I needed that spiritual kind of connection," she added. "I needed advice. I needed a prayer...There's a part of the scripture that talks about Esther, 'such a time as this,' and that's what we talked about. And it was very comforting for me."
Cooper then asked the vice president if she prayed "every day."
"I do pray every day, sometimes twice a day," Harris responded. "I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a verb—you live your faith."
"The way that one should do that is... think about how you can serve in a way that is uplifting other people, that is about caring for other people," she continued. "That guides a lot of how I think about my work and what is important."
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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