David Bridges
Vice President Kamala Harris‘ marketing campaign kicked off with a brand-new advert — and it options Beyoncé‘s tune “Freedom.” Simply days after the 59-year-old presumptive Democratic nominee launched into the marketing campaign path, she launched a brand new promo that highlights her focal factors: girls’s reproductive rights, gun violence, inexpensive healthcare and extra.
“On this election, we every face a query: What sort of nation can we wish to stay in?” Kamala asks within the clip earlier than it shows a second from Donald Trump‘s marketing campaign. “There are some individuals who suppose we must be a rustic of chaos, of concern of hate. However us? We select one thing totally different: freedom.”
The advert then takes viewers via a montage of what Harris intends to deal with. “The liberty not simply to get by however get forward,” she continues. “The liberty to be secure from gun violence. The liberty to make selections about your individual physique. We select a future the place no baby lives in poverty; the place we will all afford healthcare; the place nobody is above the regulation.”
“We imagine within the promise of America, and we’re able to battle for it,” the VP provides, earlier than concluding, “As a result of after we battle, we win.”
Simply 24 hours into her marketing campaign, Harris raised greater than $80 million of donations. A number of Democrats and celebrities alike endorsed the previous prosecutor, together with President Joe Biden, who stepped down from the presidential race earlier this week.
“My fellow Democrats, I’ve determined to not settle for the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the rest of my time period,” Biden, 81, tweeted on July 21. “My very first resolution because the social gathering nominee in 2020 was to select Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the perfect resolution I’ve made. Right this moment I wish to provide my full assist and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our social gathering this 12 months.”
On Wednesday, July 24, Biden spoke to the nation from the Oval Workplace throughout a televised addressed. Shortly after recovering from a bout of COVID, the president informed People, “I revere this workplace, however I like this nation extra,” including that the “greatest means ahead is to cross the torch to a brand new technology.”
“It has been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for 50 years,” the long-time politician — who has served as a county council member, a senator, vp and now president — mentioned. “The concept of America lies in your palms. Simply hold the religion and bear in mind who we’re. There may be merely nothing past our capability if we do it collectively.”
Clara Hastings
