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Kamala Harris is still pushing for Joe Biden's candidacy

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Kamala Harris is still pushing for Joe Biden's candidacy

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, July 21, 2024, p. 26

Massachusetts. Vice President Kamala Harris pushed for President Joe Biden’s re-election at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Monday, despite continued pressure from fellow Democrats and big donors seeking to end her struggling campaign.

We are going to win this electionHarris said, although It won’t be easy, but we are a group of people who understand that what is worth it requires a lot of work..

While alluding to the turmoil surrounding Biden’s candidacy since his poor performance in last month’s debate, the vice president did not address calls for the president to drop out of the 2024 race.

The sponsorship event drew at least 1,000 people and raised more than $2 million, according to its host, celebrity wedding planner Bryan Rafanelli, and was attended by celebrities including actress Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter and Darren Criss, to name a few.

Speaking in Provincetown yesterday, Harris denounced the extremism and intolerance that she says mark Donald Trump’s vision for the United States.

White supremacists have shown up at Pride festivals carrying assault weapons… We see extremists fanning the flames of hate and homophobia for political gainthe vice president mentioned.

Harris is also, according to a Democratic faction, the possible successor to Biden as the presidential candidate.

Influential Senator Elizabeth Warren told MSNBC that she gives I have a lot of hope that if Biden decides to step back, we’ll have Vice President Kamala Harris, who is ready to step up, unite the party, take on Donald Trump, and win in November..

Some Biden supporters, however, fear that such a late change of candidate could trigger chaos and condemn the party to failure at the polls.

According to the newspaper The Washington PostBiden even lost the support of Barack Obama, whose vice president he was and who also believes he should seriously consider the viability of your candidacyaccording to those close to the former president (2009-2017).

Monumental tsunami

Meanwhile, the Trump-Vance ticket resumed its campaign for the November elections in Michigan yesterday, at an event held exactly one week after the attack in which the former president was injured.

Last week I was shot for democracythe president harangued amid the applause of some 12 thousand spectators in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a fundamental state which he won in 2016 but which Biden snatched from him in 2020.

I am not an extremist at allTrump insisted to rule out his alleged links with the Project 2025a radical manifesto led by figures close to him that is described by his opponents as an authoritarian, right-wing wish list.

Speaking before him was his running mate, Senator JD Vance, originally from the neighboring state of Ohio, who aimed his batteries at Vice President Kamala Harris, as a possible candidate: I served in the United States Marine Corps and started a business. What have you done besides cashing a paycheck?he indirectly told the former California senator.

Trump promised a monumental tidal wave in favor of the Republicans in the November elections, and also mocked the Democrats who do not know who their candidate isand claimed that Biden has an IQ of 50, 60 or 70.