President Harris

Maybe.

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President Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses VP Harris

Joe Biden - 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. 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. https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgdhFK0WTgw


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Kamala Harris full statement

On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country. His remarkable legacy of accomplishment is unmatched in modern American history, surpassing the legacy of many Presidents who have served two terms in office.

It is a profound honor to serve as his Vice President, and I am deeply grateful to the President, Dr. Biden, and the entire Biden family. I first came to know President Biden through his son Beau. We were friends from our days working together as Attorneys General of our home states. As we worked together, Beau would tell me stories about his Dad. The kind of father-and the kind of man-he was. And the qualities Beau revered in his father are the same qualities, the same values, I have seen every single day in Joe's leadership as President: His honesty and integrity. His big heart and commitment to his faith and his family. And his love of our country and the American people.

With this selfless and patriotic act, President Biden is doing what he has done throughout his life of service: putting the American people and our country above everything else.

I am honored to have the President's endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination. Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election. And that is what I will continue to do in the days and weeks ahead. I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party-and unite our nation-to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.

We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.

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Dozens of current and former DNC delegates back Kamala Harris

In a letter shared with POLITICO, the officials wrote that she is the Democratic Party's strongest candidate for president.

Dozens of current and former delegates to the Democratic National Convention have signed a letter endorsing Kamala Harris' White House bid, an immediate show of force for the vice president suddenly thrust into position to claim the mantle.

In the letter, which was shared with POLITICO, the officials wrote that they believe Harris is the Democratic Party's strongest candidate for president — the one who can best offer a clear, unifying vision for the future of the United States.

“As a former prosecutor, there is no one better to make the case for American democracy and against convicted felon Donald Trump than Kamala Harris, they wrote. "Vice President Harris is the strongest potential Democratic candidate who can best protect President Biden ' s legacy and long list of accomplishments.

The officials added: She has shown resolve and fortitude in the face of racist and sexist attacks by MAGA Republicans. We also firmly believe that Vice President Harris and her Vice Presidential selection will help Democratic candidates for U.S. House, Senate, and in the states we need to win in November, enabling us to enact laws that truly benefit the American people.

The group includes delegates from California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina and several other states.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton endorse Kamala Harris

Now is the time to support Kamala Harris, they wrote on social media

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, have both endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris toreplace President Joe Biden as the party ' s presidential candidate.

We are honored to join the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and will do whatever we can to support her, the Clintons said in a statement posted on X. Now is the time to support Kamala Harris and fight with everything we have got to elect her.

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), the subject of rumblings as a potential vice presidential pick for Kamala Harris, offered a full-throated endorsement of her presidential bid on Sunday afternoon.

I could not be more confident that Vice President @KamalaHarris is the right person to defeat Donald Trump and lead our country into the future, Kelly wrote in a post on the social media network X. She has my support for the nomination, and Gabby [Giffords] and I will do everything we can to elect her President of the United States.

Kelly handily won a full term in the Senate in 2022 in Arizona, a key swing state.

The Democrats have dropped a bollock!

Should have nominated George Clooney, they would have had a better chance of beating Trump.
He does have the pedigree afterall, Clooney is of Irish, German, and English ancestry. His maternal fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, making Clooney and President Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.

If Ronald Regan could do it, even Arnie the Terminator Governor of California.

It's the American way.

Kamala Harris, I doubt it.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel as they did four years ago.
Too bad RFK, Jr denounced his Democratic candidacy some months ago.

What of the DNC Convention in a month......and the convoluted process?
What if the delegates aren't agreeable with that VP [dumb as a bag of rocks] koont?

Do you support RFK Jr, Jeff?

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Originally Posted by happynz

Do you support RFK Jr, Jeff?

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No. Not really. Don't support any of 'em.
just thought his hat in the ring might shed a little stimulating alternative to the same old show.


But we all know, anything alternative or different or anything that grates against the oligarch is never allowed to come about.
If you're not a club member don't bother.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr isn't supporting Harris.



I commend President Biden for stepping down. His infirmities were evident to any unbiased observer from the beginning. It was this progressive deterioration — and his abandonment of Democratic Party principles — that prompted me to enter the race and ensure American voters had a viable, vigorous alternative to Donald Trump.

Yet the response of the DNC was to try and hide President Biden’s degeneration from the American public and disable democracy to ram him through to his party’s nomination.

Many Americans fear that the same DNC elites are about to rig the nominating process again to get a monumentally unpopular vice president to step into President Biden’s shoes.

I call on the Democratic Party to return to its traditional commitment to democracy and exemplify it with an open process. Instead of anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites, the party should use neutral polling to identify the candidate who can best beat Donald Trump. The delegates should then select a nominee based on this information.

If they had done this to begin with, I would not have had to leave the Democratic Party.


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Yep...

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Nice find Nev.

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Originally Posted by Neverna

DNC elites

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I like the term "superdelegates"

Oozes with democracy :)

And of major donors

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Originally Posted by happynz

Do you support RFK Jr, Jeff?

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He supports Xi/Putin. Just like the turd one post up.

Might get a pretty good amount of donations during the next several days.......

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Originally Posted by helge

I like the term "superdelegates"

Oozes with democracy :)

And of major donors

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Quite honestly, the whole presidental process is far from democratic.
Reeks of oligarch management and manipulation.
And most [if not all] fall for it.


Plenty of kool-aid available.

^FO Jeff

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Originally Posted by S Landreth

Might get a pretty good amount of donations during the next several days.......

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ActBlue over 27.5 million dollars from small donors in less than 5 hours

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Kamala Harris starts in driver's seat as Biden's 2024 replacement — but it is no guarantee


Now that President Joe Biden has announced he wonÂ’t run for re-election, he has endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to be his successor as the Democratic presidential nominee.

But itÂ’s not up to him, though BidenÂ’s endorsement is the latest in several very powerful factors leaning HarrisÂ’ way.

While Biden won virtually all of the delegates to next monthÂ’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago and was the partyÂ’s presumptive nominee, he relinquishes that title by stepping aside and has no direct power over choosing whom those delegates will officially nominate.

That’s because the convention delegates, the people who actually pick the Democratic Party’s nominee, are not bound by any law or party rules to back the candidate they’re pledged to support. They only have to “in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.”

Follow live updates on BidenÂ’s election withdrawal

Biden can and likely will still hold enormous sway over the delegates who were preparing to nominate him. But those delegates are free to make up their own minds, both in terms of whether to back Harris and who they want to be the partyÂ’s vice presidential nominee, too.

So far, a number of prominent delegates and state party chairs and organizations are jumping out to get behind Harris. Ken Martin, the Minnesota Democratic Party chairman, told NBC News that heÂ’s spoken to a handful of other state party chairs who have all agreed to get behind Harris.

“Everyone I’ve talked to right now agrees that we have to unify quickly,” Martin said. “The idea of having four weeks of turning the conversation inward is not something I’m particularly excited about. The quicker we can unify our party behind a ticket, the sooner we can get this campaign moving.”

New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley said Saturday night that the party executive committee endorsed the vice president. When asked what he hopes are the next steps for the party, Buckley wrote in a text message: "Ultimately, it is up to the delegates."

In Tennessee, Democratic delegate Bill Owen told The New York Times that the state's delegates all endorsed Harris on a conference call, as similar conversations get started around the country.

Meanwhile, at the moment, itÂ’s even unclear exactly when Democrats will meet to select their nominee.

They had been planning to formally nominate Biden during a virtual roll call vote in the first week of August in order to avoid a potential legal issue around a ballot access deadline in Ohio. But the party may now have to change course if Democratic delegates are not prepared to ratify her nomination so quickly.

That process will be governed by the Democratic National Convention rules committee, which has almost 200 members and is chaired by Leah Daughtry, a longtime DNC insider and rules expert, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

In a statement, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison didnÂ’t directly address what happens next, but said an answer would come soon.

“In short order, the American people will hear from the Democratic Party on next steps and the path forward for the nomination process,” he said.

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Originally Posted by Neverna

Robert F. Kennedy Jr isn't supporting Harris.

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That’s the brain worms talking.

RFK Sr. Is doing backflips, in his grave, right about now.

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Originally Posted by HuangLao

Quite honestly, the whole presidental process is far from democratic.
Reeks of oligarch management and manipulation.
And most [if not all] fall for it.


Plenty of kool-aid available.

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What does this 'you not falling for it' consist of, anyway?

Seriously - enlighten us.

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Originally Posted by cyrille

Seriously - enlighten us.

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Prepare to wait awhile for the response, if you even get one at all.

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Don’t hold your breath, Jeff the faker can’t elucidate. It’s all part of his mystique.

Another comedy thread from spamdreth.

This one could be hilarious.

:rofl:

The only way Harris will get into the White House is with a mop as Trump’s cleaner.

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Originally Posted by Joe 90

Should have nominated George Clooney, they would have had a better chance of beating Trump.
He does have the pedigree afterall, Clooney is of Irish, German, and English ancestry. His maternal fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, making Clooney and President Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.

If Ronald Regan could do it, even Arnie the Terminator Governor of California.

It's the American way.

Kamala Harris, I doubt it.

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Why? Because she is a smart, educated woman, and not a stupid actor?

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Originally Posted by Iceman123

The only way Harris will get into the White House is with a mop as TrumpÂ’s cleaner.

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That's a laugh! If Trump gets in, it isn't because he'd make a better president, far from it.
Most people don't know Kamala as well, she isn't over the top and a criminal. If it is between her and Trump, she should win hands down. Doesn't mean she will though, but that doesn't say anything about her.

Difficult to respond to 'Joe's' post, really, as most of it is copied and pasted.

Maybe Google it and take issue with the person who actually wrote it?

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Originally Posted by cyrille

Difficult to respond to 'Joe's' post, really, as most of it is copied and pasted.

Maybe Google it and take issue with the person who actually wrote it?

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Yes, but gurlpower. And fight the patriarchy.

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Originally Posted by DrWilly

Yes, but gurlpower. And fight the patriarchy.

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Especially after we've been denigrating two old, straight white men for months now. Their arch enemy no less.

I hate to pop your pink bubble MM, but people are allowed to criticize women politicians of color too.