2020-10-12, 06:35 PM
‘I am ready to get to work’: Kamala Harris campaigns with Joe Biden for the first time
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/joe-biden-kamala-harris-wilmington-delaware-event-20200812.html
by Andrew Seidman, Updated: August 12, 2020
WILMINGTON — Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday assailed President Donald Trump’s “failure” to take the coronavirus seriously and said Democrats “need a mandate” from voters to turn the page on his presidency, as she and Joe Biden appeared together for the first time since Biden tapped Harris to be his running mate.
“I am ready to get to work,” Harris, a California Democrat, said as she joined the former vice president in the gymnasium at Alexis I. duPont High School in Wilmington, where Biden lives.
Harris, 55, a first-term senator and former attorney general of California, ran against Biden in the Democratic presidential primary but dropped out of the race before voting began. She was considered a front-runner to be Biden’s running mate, and Democrats hope the historic nature of her candidacy as the first Black woman and Asian American on a major-party presidential ticket will boost enthusiasm for the campaign. Biden said the campaign logged its best day in online fund-raising after he named Harris as his pick.
“Joe, I’m so proud to stand with you,” she said in a gathering where the traditional pomp and circumstance of a vice presidential rollout was replaced by a room full of socially distanced reporters. “I do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me, whose sacrifice, determination, and resilience makes my presence here today even possible.”
“Joe, I’m so proud to stand with you,” she said in a gathering where the traditional pomp and circumstance of a vice presidential rollout was replaced by a room full of socially distanced reporters. “I do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me, whose sacrifice, determination, and resilience makes my presence here today even possible.”
Biden introduced her as a “proven fighter” for the middle class who is ready to be vice president
“As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up Black and Indian American in the United States of America,” Biden said, speaking in front of a display of American flags and flags representing the states, territories, and Washington, D.C.
“As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up Black and Indian American in the United States of America,” Biden said, speaking in front of a display of American flags and flags representing the states, territories, and Washington, D.C.
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