Obama Endorses Harris for President

Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign received a lift on July 26 as former President Barack Obama and former First Woman Michelle Obama introduced their endorsement of her bid for the White Home.

The endorsement got here within the type of a video shared by Ms. Harris, by which she accepts a joint telephone name from the Obamas, as she seeks to construct momentum because the Democratic Get together’s doubtless nominee after President Joe Biden introduced his withdrawal from the marketing campaign.

“We referred to as to say Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do every thing we are able to to get you thru this election and into the Oval Workplace,” the previous president informed Ms. Harris, who’s proven taking the decision whereas backstage at an occasion.

Ms. Harris thanked the Obamas for his or her endorsement and their long-standing friendship.

“Oh my goodness. Michelle, Barack, this implies a lot to me. I’m wanting ahead to doing this with the 2 of you, Doug and I each. And getting on the market, being on the highway,” the vp mentioned.

“However most of all, I simply wish to inform you the phrases you could have spoken and the friendship that you’ve given over all these years imply greater than I can categorical, so thanks each. It means a lot. And we’re going to have some enjoyable with this, too, aren’t we?”

The Obamas are the final key figures within the Democratic Get together to unite behind the vp in her bid to change into commander-in-chief.

“At this important second for our nation, we’re going to do every thing we are able to to ensure she wins in November,” he wrote.

Whereas the endorsement is just not surprising, it follows President Obama’s preliminary expression of help for an open Democratic main course of on the occasion’s conference subsequent month.

“I’ve extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our occasion will have the ability to create a course of from which an excellent nominee emerges,” President Obama mentioned in a press release, which didn’t point out the vp.

“I consider that Joe Biden’s imaginative and prescient of a beneficiant, affluent, and united America that gives alternative for everybody can be on full show on the Democratic Conference in August.

His assertion was issued in response to President Biden’s announcement that he was ending his marketing campaign and endorsing the vp.

“We’re honored to affix the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and can do no matter we are able to to help her,” the Clintons wrote.

Different Democratic Get together leaders have been fast to endorse the vp, together with former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

President Biden introduced he was withdrawing from the 2024 race for the White Home on July 21 and held an Oval Workplace tackle on July 24 explaining why he was dropping out.

“It’s been the honour of my life to function your president, however within the protection of democracy, which is at stake, I feel it’s extra essential than any title,” President Biden mentioned within the televised tackle.

“I draw energy and I discover pleasure in working for the American individuals, however this sacred job of perfecting our union is just not about me. It’s about you, your households, your futures. It’s about we, the individuals.

“So I’ve determined one of the simplest ways ahead is to move the torch to a brand new era.

“That’s one of the simplest ways to unite our nation. You recognize, there’s a time and a spot for lengthy years of expertise in public life. There’s additionally a time and a spot for brand new voices, recent voices, sure, youthful voices. And that point and place is now.”

The president additionally laid out his plans for his ultimate six months in workplace, highlighting key targets resembling boosting financial progress, reducing inflation, tightening gun management, and safeguarding the planet from what he described as a “local weather disaster.”