Breaking: Biden Endorses Kamala Harris for President after Withdrawing from Race
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President Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday after withdrawing from the 2024 election, instantly elevating the vice president to frontrunner status in an unplanned and compressed Democratic primary process that’s kicking off just months before voters go to the polls.
“My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,” Biden said on X. “And it's been the best decision I've made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it's time to come together and beat Trump. Let's do this.”
Concerns about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity mounted following his bumbling performance in June’s presidential debate, until the president announced on Sunday that he will withdraw his name from November’s ballot. Harris is the only candidate able to easily access the tens of millions of dollars donated to the Biden-Harris campaign.
“I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work,” Biden said in a letter on Sunday. “And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.”
“I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can’t do — when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America,” he said.
The White House claimed reports last week that Biden was assessing Harris’s viability as a candidate were false, and added that Biden “‘is more committed than ever.’ And as you heard from the President, he looks forward to campaigning this week,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
Some Democrats have pushed for a closed virtual nomination, wherein delegates could quickly replace Biden with Harris on the ticket. Others want to settle the debate at the Democratic National Convention in mid-August with an open primary in which various candidates would vie for delegate support on the convention floor.
“When people voted for [Biden] as the nominee they were voting for this ticket, so it just has to be concluded that the best way to validate the vote of the primary voters is to support the vice president as our nominee,” Eleni Kounalakis, lieutenant governor of California and a Democratic convention delegate told CNN. “There's so much respect for President Biden that if he asked delegates to support her, even with a public chaotic media swirl, I believe most delegates would honor his wishes as the person who was chosen through the primary process and as our president.”
Born in Oakland, California, Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco in 2004, and was then in 2010 elected as the Attorney General of California. Recent polling puts Harris’s approval ratings slightly higher than Biden’s — according to Five Thirty Eight, 38.6 percent of Americans approve of Harris and 50.4 percent disapprove, whereas 38.5 percent of Americans approve of Biden and 56.2 percent disapprove.
“If President Biden decides to step back, we have Vice President Kamala Harris, who is ready to step up, to unite the party, to take on Donald Trump, and to win in November,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said on Saturday, adding that Harris’s background as a prosecutor has prepared her to take on President Donald Trump.
While Harris is now the frontrunner, Democrats have not yet united behind her: Senator Heidi Heitkamp, (D., N.D.) told the New York Times last week that “most Democrats think it should be an open process.”
“What I would say is the best thing is for Kamala Harris is to win a contested convention fight because it would legitimize her candidacy,” she said. “If it's a backroom deal, you haven't earned it and people want you to earn it. And once you earn it, you get a huge bounce.”
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