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Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

Kamala Harris has launched her campaign for the White House, after President Joe Biden stepped aside Sunday under pressure from party leaders.

The vice president has Biden’s endorsement, and is unchallenged as yet for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.

“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda. We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

In her statement, the vice president paid tribute to Biden’s “extraordinary leadership,” saying he had achieved more in one term than many presidents do in two.

werefreeatlast ,

AOC for running mate! AOC for running mate!

Nuke_the_whales ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fbe1ac9f-0820-4277-9bf4-f7dc96a01663.png

The only running mate for Kamala is Kamala

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

Read in another thread, and haven’t looked it up yet mind you, but apparently AOC is 1 year too young.

lemonmelon ,

AOC is eligible. She would meet the requirements set forth in the Constitution at the time of her inauguration.

People continue to spread misinformation about her eligibility.

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for confirming. That’s be one hell of a ticket. 😍

Birch ,

Literally having a criminal prosecutor run against a convicted criminal is kind of beautiful.

pyre ,

ooooh never thought about that. people dislike that she’s a prosecutor so i don’t know if she should use this at all but it’s still kinda awesome

Nuke_the_whales ,

If the Dems can pull off a black woman president, the Republicans are gonna blow a gasket. I’d love to see that.

SeattleRain ,

Hilary 2.0.

SeattleRain ,

Oh no

Podunk ,

Ok. Fine… who would you pick?

There is a reason for her being the transition cannidate. If you have better, please let the DNC know…

SeattleRain ,

Well I’d pick one of handful of progressive democrats the Dems have or Bernie but that ain’t happening. I’d at least pick Newsom.

JimSamtanko ,

Pick someone that is willing to run. Because thats how things work.

Podunk ,

Ok. But fuck, if you have to have a cop out, waffle house excuse to say newsom, i have a hard time believing you. Newsome is hard for the fact that hes a “hard D” california govenor and you take a good hit in the swing states. Thats a real liability. Thats fair. Stand by it. Say that. “But Bernie” my ass. Bernie doesnt want it now.

Dont say “oh no” and not have an honest opinion that you arent willing to put your nuts behind. Get on board, or gtfo.

I swear. As a dem, and ill be honest, what pisses me off the most is that we are our own worst enemy. We waffle and push for a vauge replacement with no game plan, and bitch and moan when the answer given “just isnt quite what we want”.

We could have had an honest to god game plan a year ago. But we didnt get our shit together. Thats on you, thats on me, and its sure as fuck on the DNC. But we dont have that option now.

Fucks sake. Rant over. Sorry for being frustrated at a two word post and a half baked response. Fuck.

SeattleRain ,

Bro what are you on about. Kamala came in dead last in the 2020 primary. She’s has a enormous amounts of baggage like jailing kids and parents for skipping school.

She’s more right wing that Biden. Why would anyone vote for diet Republican when they can have the real thing.

Podunk ,

Your right. Shes not left enough… might as well vote for trump or skip.

Seriously though. Are you paying attention? We dont get the perfect candidate now.dont shoot yourself in the foot. You’re already a locked in voter i assume. If trump was 50/50 with biden, what makes you think he loses with us nit picking? Shes right of biden? Guess who is more right from that. Hope for whitmere or aoc as vp if your feathers are that ruffled. Newsom if you really want. But kamala is the ticket and whining about it loses the election.

SeattleRain ,

Bro you these moral ransom arguments are not going to work when the things you want people to compromise on are genocide and chattel slavery. It’s Hilary all over again.

RampantParanoia2365 ,

Is there any way she’s not nominated? I’d like to donate to the Dem nominee as soon as humanly possible.

VanillaBean ,

Doubtful that anyone else could get as much steam as her at this point. And the endorsement from so many have already rolled in, including POTUS. Though she might have to go through the formal nomination process, it’s clear he’s passing the torch to her. They broke the record for donations this year today alone!

HappycamperNZ ,

Could turn out she’s a convicted felon, sexual assault allegations may arise, or have conspired to commit treason.

Hahaha, yeah. Would be hilarious if it wasn’t depressing as fuck.

StephniBefni ,

Well that clearly doesn’t stop nominations at this point.

MogMov ,

That’sthejoke

ashok36 ,

No. Based on the fundraising today, a preference cascade is occurring and she’ll have the entire party behind her by mid week.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This is such a quintessential American question. Never in my life have I had to donate my hard earned money to a political candidate, it is such a strange concept to me.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Yeah I was reading the comments in another thread and multiple people were talking about donating money to the democrat candidate

They’re giving money to politicians? Are they fucking insane?

Another article I was reading was about how one of their politicians has managed a 700% markup on her investment portfolio in the last decade and nobody was actually calling for this woman to be fucking jailed for insider trading, it was just “Oh yep, they’re corrupt and that’s how it is”

Then they want to donate money? 😂 Fuck me

SSJMarx ,

It’s been so corrupt for so long that we all just accept it. If we were studying ourselves from the outside, we might conclude that bribery is an openly accepted aspect of the American political system, comparable to how it was in the Roman one.

Phoenix3875 ,

The problem is their retail politics style being more costly.

Trabic ,

From whom?

badbytes ,

Kamala, you have my attention. Now earn my vote.

NikkiDimes ,

She’s not Trump.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I promise that if elected, I will not be Donald Trump.

ashok36 ,

Good enough for me.

ChaoticEntropy ,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

If the dems don’t get their shit together soon the election will be over before they’ve even put someone on the ticket.

Nomecks ,

Bernie 2024?

ColeSloth ,

I’d love for him to be the vp running mate, and I love Bernie, but he’s the exact same age as Biden. He’s still sharp and awesome, but you can’t expect one 81 year old to have to quit, while putting in another 81 year old and think there’s a chance of him winning.

Guy_Fieris_Hair ,

I would suck a dick for a Bernie presidency, but that would require the DNC to do some aggressive shit to appoint someone that they have blatantly fucked over multiple times.

MeekerThanBeaker ,

Bernie is actually 82.

I wish he won in 2016, but I agree his time has now passed despite him being still with it.

kent_eh ,

I thought everyone was in agreement that really old candidates were not wanted?

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar

If anyone is concerned that there is only 4 months until the election, remember Jacinda Adern became opposition leader 3 months before the 2017 election and won - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41675801

tal , (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Does the New Zealand system have a restricted 3 month official campaign period the way the UK does? A lot of Kiwi government shares similar structure with the British system.

The US doesn’t, and normally campaigning spans a substantially longer period of time.

kagis

Yeah, this sounds like they do. Three months.

elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/…/key-dates/

Friday 14 July

Regulated period for election advertising expenses begins

Friday 13 October

Regulated period ends. All election advertising must end. Signs must be taken down by midnight.

Saturday 14 October

Election day.

newhampshirebulletin.com/…/how-did-the-us-preside…

Four hundred and forty-four days prior to the 2024 presidential election, millions of Americans tuned into the first Republican primary debate. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is.

By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have just two weeks to campaign, while Japanese law restricts campaigns to a meager 12 days.

You can argue whether the US should or shouldn’t restrict the campaigning period (though I’m almost certain that doing so would violate the First Amendment and thus require a new constitutional amendment permitting it to put into force).

But the thing is, Trump doesn’t have that restriction, the American system doesn’t normally expect it, and Harris is going to be trying to run a British-length campaign with no lead time for prep in the American system when her opponent has no such restrictions. She is gonna have to hit the ground running.

Also, American presidential campaign spending and fundraising is very large compared to the European levels I’ve seen. Dunno what things are like in New Zealand, but I remember that when Hillary ran against Trump in 2016, each campaign spent about a billion dollars.

EDIT: I don’t know if this is directly comparable, because it sounds like Kiwi rules don’t have parties declare donations under $1,500 (and I don’t know if these aggregate figures include individual contributions that don’t have to be reported individually). I think so, because this is measuring spending, not donations. The Kiwi system is parliamentary rather than presidential and so the race for the executive is the same as the race for the legislature, whereas the spending above is only for the executive race in the US, excludes all legislative campaign spending. And I’m not clear on whether this includes donations to individuals, which apparently can differ from party donations, though the Westminster system is more party-centric than the American one, where candidates need to do a lot more of their fundraising and spending thenselves. But without my digging much more, some Kiwi numbers:

thepost.co.nz/…/labour-spent-1m-more-national-los…

Labour spent $1m more than National to lose the 2023 election

The ACT Party spent more than National, declaring $2.77m in expenses. NZ First spent $1.51m on a campaign which returned them to Government alongside National and ACT, whereas the Green Party spent $1.33m on a campaign that achieved wins in key electorate seats.

Also, those are Kiwibucks, not American dollars, so the USD numbers are only something like 60% of that. Accounting for that, if the numbers are comparable, that’d be the largest-spending Kiwi party doing $1.6 million USD across all of their seats compared to the US presidential campaigns alone doing about $1 billion.

Harris has got to raise some – or all, not sure whether she can get funds from the Biden-Harris campaign warchest – of that in the time remaining, which means that she’s gotta convince people that she is who they want to be president enough to pitch into the war chest so that she can spend that to sell herself to the public. She has to build a campaign, plan to spend the money, and do so to target voters. Not much time to iterate doing that.

And keep in mind that the first Republican presidential debate mentioned above, 444 days before the election, isn’t when those people started campaigning, and certainly isn’t when they started planning their campaign. It’s just an early milestone in the campaign. Harris is gonna have to pull all of this off in about three and a half months.

The US presidential election is an awfully large and expensive marketing fight for voter minds.

EDIT2: One positive sign for her: this person says that she believes that Harris most likely can get access to the funds that the Biden-Harris campaign has, so that’ll help get her some of the way there:

cnbc.com/…/kamala-harris-fundraising-surge.html

Harris can likely get immediate access to the Biden campaign’s roughly $96 million donation pot, according to Anna Massoglia, an investigations manager at the campaign finance research center, OpenSecrets.

“The general consensus among most people that I’ve spoken with is that she can use the funding,” Massoglia told CNBC in an interview.

And she picked up a little more after announcing:

But it wasn’t just the big donors who responded to Biden’s announcement: The progressive donation platform ActBlue initially said it raised $27.5 million from small-dollar donors in the five hours after Biden endorsed Harris. Later, the company announced it raised over $45 million.

HappycamperNZ ,

Lucky for her she also has a significant national and international threat as her opponent. She isn’t an unknown going in to try take 50% - she’s already got all the votes for those who see what Trump is.

tal , (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

she isn’t an unknown

I mean, that’s true. But she’s a not-terribly-high-profile veep. The regular crowd has been campaigning for over a year. Hell, Trump served as President, and he’s got the visibility from that; he started campaigning for Trump-for-President like a decade ago.

Yeah, okay, Harris ran for Senate and California Attorney General, maybe they can draw some material from those campaigns or something, though running for President and targeting specially the Midwest isn’t quite running to be a senator for California in terms of what material will work best, but they’re gonna have to start getting people to put together a lot of content and to get it out there.

Harris has no campaign website, no volunteer network, no…like, I’m assuming that she has to be expecting to get at least a substantial chunk of the Biden-Harris campaign infrastructure, and hoping that Biden’s endorsement will result in his volunteers volunteering for her.

checks

It looks like Biden’s 2024 campaign website, joebiden.com, just redirects to ActBlue, a Democratic donations website, with a plain text message put up by him. They don’t even have a graphic, campaign logo, anything. Like, they didn’t have all this lined up and ready to go hot, or I expect that it would have redirected to a Harris campaign website.

looks further

They haven’t even taken down the old website’s content, just had the main page redirect.

Well, this is gonna be a historic campaign, win or lose.

HappycamperNZ ,

She was a kind, empathetic leader and was great at uniting the country in crisis… multiple times.

Unfortunately she was distinctly average as a stable environment politician. Wouldn’t want her as PM now but would be great if we could hire her out on call when everything does hit the fan again.

TastyWheat ,

I worked at a Sydney airport shop years ago and she would come through our area from time to time. She was approachable, easy to talk to and despite having big spooky security guys around, was happy to just go shopping and wait for her flight.

The Fijian PM at the time used to come through, crack jokes, run up a bill and then jokingly ask one of his security guys to buy all the stuff for him. He was a really funny bloke and he made our day.

groats_survivor ,

Who?

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Prime Minister of New Zealand. I have a comment on it in response.

JCreazy ,

Fuck it, I’ll vote for her if not for the mere fact that I would get a lot of entertainment seeing people complain how our president is a black woman.

Birch ,

Thanks, Harris.

Draedron ,

You win it for Trump. I swear it feels like Dems want Trump to win by backstabbing Biden this late in the game.

inclementimmigrant ,

Didn’t like her in the primaries, still don’t like her now but honestly she’s the best shot Democrats have now. I’m just so pissed off that Democrats and Biden waited this long and now have to scramble like this.

It’s absolutely infuriating at this level of incompetence.

MyOpinion ,

Kamala Harris I look forward to you wiping the floor with the Orange Turd.

Draedron ,

She has less than 4 months and was completely invisible before. She is going to lose hard and this time we can really blame the Dems for betraying Biden this late in the race.

ShepherdPie ,

Biden was going to lose. Do you really think they’d go through all this if that wasn’t the reality of the situation?

DragonTypeWyvern ,

According to the same pollsters cold calling boomers and then acting surprised reality doesn’t match up

Draedron ,

Biden had a chance, Harris has none.

Xanis ,

About 30 seconds ago I felt a little smarter not knowing you exist, yet in so few words you’ve made yourself pretty thoroughly known.

Four months is plenty of time. Biden will be backing her. The DNC has voting wolves ready to kick their asses. Bernie and AOC both supported Biden and are wise enough to support Harris, and others will follow their example. Back to point #2, and to reaaaally highlight something obscenely important:

They listened.

Take that in for a meager second. Now ask yourself if we could get those prideful fucks to back down, and also get an old lifetime politician to step aside in a historical move, do you understand what we could potentially do if we complained half as hard as you do when so much shit isn’t on the line?

Oh, and give us an alternative that matches three things:

  1. Not invisible
  2. Likely to have larger support
  3. Not old asf

I think you’ll find 3 to be rather important for a LOT of people right now.

AlecSadler ,

I’m saving this to use later, because it’s amazing, thank you, “About 30 seconds ago I felt a little smarter not knowing you exist”

brbposting ,

I prolly agree with you, and you seem to have a good handle on the current political climate (thus an intelligent head on your shoulders), which is why I think it’s worth my time to suggest some introspection w/r/t your first sentence. Thanks for your consideration.

Draedron ,

Lol yeah what are Bernie and AOC supposed to do? Not support anyone and take on the backstabbers on their own? It is too late for any alternative. It was go with Biden who has a chance to win and beat Trump before or just giving Trump the win on the silver platter. Now I just hope Trump is so incompetent that there will be a next election or at least that he doesnt care about the rest of the world and only focusses on the US so at least we are safe. I hope the betraying Dems will realize their mistake and be deeply sorry for it.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

About 30 seconds ago I felt a little smarter not knowing you exist, yet in so few words you’ve made yourself pretty thoroughly known.

Savage

kent_eh ,

and was completely invisible before.

Only if you haven’t been paying attention.

Draedron ,

True, I forgot that a couple times it was talked about what a shit human and worse prosecutor she was.

TrickDacy ,

The next debate should be hilarious. Someone with facts and speaking ability vs a windbag lie machine

Guy_Fieris_Hair ,

Also, she is a cop/lawyer. She’s prolly pretty good at arguing as long as she can handle the big(ger) stage.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I wonder if she convicted anyone of falsification of business records? It would be interesting if she mentioned that as one of her past accomplishments while on the stage with someone found guilty of 34 counts of that crime.

AlecSadler ,

Damn, this would be amazing to see.

JimSamtanko ,

Trump won’t debate her. He’s fucking stupid, but he’s not that fucking stupid.

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

Oh I quite think that he’d love to debate her! However his handlers will absolutely go bonkers trying to get him to shut up about it to keep that from happening.

paddirn ,

Wow, so the DNC might actually be interesting to watch this year if another candidate gets any traction.

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