David Bridges
Vice President Kamala Harris vowed that she is going to “earn and win” her nomination by the Democratic Celebration after President Joe Biden introduced his resolution to step down from the race. Hours after the president, 81, made the historic resolution to withdraw from the election, Harris, 59, launched her personal assertion to social media.
“On behalf of the American folks, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary management as President of the US and for his a long time of service to our nation,” she tweeted on Sunday, July 21. “I’m honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.”
On behalf of the American folks, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary management as President of the US and for his a long time of service to our nation.
I’m honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 21, 2024
In a follow-up tweet, Harris wrote that she “will do all the pieces in my energy to unite the Democratic Celebration — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his excessive Challenge 2025 agenda.”
Hours beforehand, Biden introduced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. In an official assertion launched on July 21, the president wrote that it “has been the best honor of [his] life to serve” the American folks.
“And whereas it has been my intention to hunt reelection, I imagine it’s in the very best curiosity of my get together and the nation for me to face down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the rest of my time period,” Biden added. “I imagine as we speak what I all the time have: that there’s nothing America can’t do – once we do it collectively. We simply have to recollect we’re the US of America.”
Biden’s resolution to step down comes weeks after quite a few Democrats and numerous Individuals known as on him to step down. Throughout his televised debate in opposition to Republican nominee Donald Trump in June, viewers noticed Biden come across his phrases. Nevertheless, the White Home defended him and vowed that he would proceed to marketing campaign for reelection.
All through the rest of June and July, Biden appeared in a number of televised interviews and press conferences, the place he insisted he was not leaving the presidential race. However, many information shops continued to take a position whether or not or not Harris could be tapped to take his place because the 2024 Democratic nominee.
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