CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Just as Joe Biden, who opted out of the presidential race, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the democrats have moved quickly to rally around her candidacy.
The fate of Harris’ presidency is in the hands of the delegates and a handful of convention delegations in states like Tennessee, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina are announcing their support for Harris, according to NBC News.
Harris has also announced her plans to seek the Democratic nomination. ‘I am honoured to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” she said in a statement.
Though Harris is the natural heir to the ticket as Biden’s running mate, many democrats have explicitly asked for an open nomination process.
Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison too said in a statement that in the coming days, the party will “undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November.”
The Vice President has also secured the backing of some of the Democrats’ biggest donors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and George and Alex Soros. There are also reports that Harris has started vetting potential running mates, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshea.
Trump reacts
Vice President Kamala Harris is “just as much of a joke as President Joe Biden is”, alleged the Donald Trump Campaign on Sunday.
In a statement, it claimed that Biden cannot take himself out of a campaign for President because “he is too mentally incompetent” and yet remains in the White House.
In a statement, the Trump campaign said, “Kamala Harris is just as much of a joke as Biden is. Harris will be even worse for the people of our nation than Joe Biden. Harris has been the Enabler-in-Chief for Crooked Joe this entire time.”
“They own each other’s records, and there is no distance between the two. Harris must defend the failed Biden Administration and her liberal, weak-on-crime record in CA,” it said.
In a joint statement on behalf of the Trump Campaign, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wilesoe alleged that Biden is a “national security threat in great cognitive decline and a clear and present danger to every man, woman and child in our country”.