Kamala is ready to win the fight against Trump

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23. 7. 2024, 06.43

Updated: 23/07/2024, 06:51

President of the USA Joe Biden withdrew from the race for re-election on Sunday and endorsed his vice president for the Democratic Party nomination, who by Monday had almost the full support of the party, US media reported. A poll released Monday night by the Associated Press found that it did Harrisovo already secured more than the 1,976 delegates needed to win the nomination in the first round of voting. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) then announced in the evening that their delegates will vote virtually on the presidential candidate next week and not until the convention, which will be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, reports Politico, which adds , that the selection process will be completed sometime between August 1 and 7.

Basically, it’s just about who Harris will choose as her vice presidential candidate, and she has already held talks with some of them, according to the American television CNN. The process of choosing her vice-presidential candidate is led by the former US Attorney General Eric Holder, Politico also reports. Harris said Monday night in Delaware that she was honored to have Biden’s endorsement. “I like Joe Biden, but I intend to earn the nomination and ultimately win,” she said, referring to the Republican presidential candidate Short described as a predator and a fraud.

“I’ve dealt with people like that as a prosecutor, and you can believe me when I tell you that I know guys like Donald Trump,Harris said.Trump wants to take our country back to a time when many Americans did not have all the freedoms and rights. We believe in a brighter future for everyone,” she added, announcing that as president she would, among other things, work to eliminate poverty, increase gun control, and restore the right to abortion.

She also said that she will lead her presidential campaign Jen O’Malley Dillon, who also led Bidnova, will retain many others from Bidnova’s staff. Among other things, it should strive to gain its ranks as well David Plouffformer strategist of the former president Barack Obama, who had a lot of fun on MSNBC Monday at the thought of a former prosecutor and a convicted felon going head-to-head in the election. Trump was recently found guilty by a jury in New York of falsifying business documents, and Harris was a prosecutor in California from 2011 to 2017.

Biden’s resignation and the expression of support for Kamala Harris invigorated Democrats, and praise for Biden’s move also came from a completely unexpected direction. Trump’s former vice president of the United States Mike Pence the South Carolina senator and Trump ally thanked Biden for putting the country’s interests ahead of his own Lindsey Graham however, he thanked Biden for devoting his life to serving the country.

In the meantime, people are already pouring money into Kamala Harris or her campaign. The political action committee Future Forward received $150 million in pledges from wealthy donors in 24 hours, while the Democratic online donor platform ActBlue raised as much as $93 million in the same period. At the same time, Harris herself collected about 81 million dollars for her campaign from 880,000 individual donors, which is the most in history in such a short time.

Of the leading Democrats, the minority leader in the House of Representatives has not yet expressed her support Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. They both plan to meet her in the next few days. On Monday evening, however, it received the support of the largest umbrella trade union organization in the USA, the AFL-CIO, and many other individual unions. In the coming days, she will meet with members of the Teamsters auto industry union, NBC reports.