Photo: Chris duMond Getty Images via Agence France-Presse U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican Rep. Amanda Stratton July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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In addition to questions about whether President Joe Biden should remain in the 2024 race, unrest within the Democratic Party is growing as members debate whether Vice President Kamala Harris should be next in line for the job or whether a “mini primary” should be launched quickly before the party’s convention in August.
Kamala Harris attended an early campaign fundraiser Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and received an endorsement from the state’s top Democratic senator, Elizabeth Warren. Warren said before the visit that if Biden were to step down, her vice president was “ready to step up.”
At the event, which organizers said raised $2 million and had 1,000 guests, Ms. Harris did not mention calls for Joe Biden to leave the race or for her to replaces him, instead repeating one of his usual campaign lines. “We are going to win this election,” she insisted.
“Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in equality? Do we believe in the promise of America ? So are we willing to fight for it ? she asked a cheering crowd. When we fight, we win. »
But placing Ms. Harris at the top of the ticket, which would be a historic moment for the party elevating the first black woman and person of South Asian descent as a presidential candidate, is not at all certain. Top officials, including Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, prefer an open process, with some saying it would give the Democratic candidate the strength needed to take on Republican Donald Trump.
“If you think there is a consensus among people who want Joe Biden gone…that they will support Kamala, Vice President Harris, you are wrong,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this week in a widely debated publication on social networks.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000With the deliberations made public, Democrats prolong an extraordinary moment of uncertainty and upheaval .
Joe Biden, despite a week of campaigning, interviews and insisting that he is the best candidate to take on Trump in a rematch, n failed to quell the tumult. Skeptical Democrats doubt he can hold on to the White House after his failures in last month's debate, and fear he will take with him the party's hopes for control of Congress.
On Saturday, Rep. Mark Takano, the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, added his name to the list of about 30 Democrats in Congress who say it's time for Mr. Biden to pass the torch.
Other lawmakers are expected to speak in the coming days. Donors have expressed concerns.
From his beach house in Delaware, Mr. Biden, 81, is isolating after contracting COVID-19, but also politically with a small circle of family and close advisors. White House physician Kevin O'Connor said Saturday that the Democrat's symptoms were improving, but he remained plagued by a dry cough and hoarseness.
The president’s team has insisted he is ready to resume campaigning next week to counter what he has called “the dark vision” Trump has presented.
“Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box,” Biden said in a statement Friday.
But outside the beach house enclave, the debates and passions are heating up.
Very few Democratic lawmakers pushing for the president’s ouster have mentioned Kamala Harris in their statements.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, an ally of Nancy Pelosi who has called on the leader to step down, said on MSNBC Friday that holding a sort of “mini primary” that would include the current vice president made sense.
Democratic Senators Jon Tester of Montana and Peter Welch of Vermont both called on Joe Biden to leave the race and admitted they would favor an open nomination process at the convention.
Other Democrats say it would be politically unthinkable to move to anyone other than Ms. Harris, and logistically impractical with a virtual nomination vote scheduled for early next month, before the he opening of the Democratic convention in Chicago on August 19.
The impasse over Biden's political future has become increasingly untenable for the party and its leaders , one month before this convention which should be a unifying moment to nominate their outgoing president to face Donald Trump.
It's unclear what else, if anything, the president could do to turn the tide and win back Democratic lawmakers and voters, who are wary of his ability to defeat his opponent and serve another term.
The President has led a series of virtual conversations with various caucuses over the past week, some of which ended badly.
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