Sources close to Biden told Reuters that Kamala Harris is the first hypothesis if Biden drops out of the race. She would keep the money raised and the structure of the campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the leading alternative to Joe Biden if the US president decides to drop out of the race for re-election. After several questions arose about Biden’s health, aggravated by his performance in the debate with Donald Trump, seven senior sources from the Biden campaign, the White House and the Democratic Party revealed to Reuters that Kamala Harris is the priority choice.
After the face-to-face with Trump, the American press reported on the “panic” in which the Democratic Party was left, with many voices calling for the party to find another candidate (even with editorials in the main newspapers) and questioning the ability of the 82-year-old candidate to renew a mandate that will end when he is 86. There was so much criticism and doubt that the American president himself felt the need to react: “I no longer walk as easily as I used to, I do not speak as softly as I used to, I do not debate as well as I used to, but I know what I know: I know how to tell the truth,” he said the day after the debate, during a rally in North Carolina.
He added: “I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, as millions of Americans know, that when we get knocked down, we get back up.” Biden even returned to the topic a few days later, justifying his poor performance in the debate as being due to fatigue caused by travel: “It wasn’t very smart to have traveled around the world several times right before the debate,” he said during an event with Democratic donors near Washington. “I almost fell asleep on stage.”
In the face of all doubts, even from Democrats, Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, also came to his defense, saying that he is “not young,” but “he tells the truth.”
Biden should not run again, according to 72% of Americans
The truth is that doubts and fears have led to a permanent discussion about Biden’s state of health and some influential Democrats have even suggested other options besides Kamala Harris, as is the case of Democratic governors such as Gavin Newsom of California, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan or Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, but the name of the vice president is inescapable.
Sources interviewed by Reuters confirm that, in the event of a replacement, Kamala Harris would keep the money raised for Joe Biden’s campaign and inherit the entire campaign structure. In addition, those interviewed say that the current vice president of the White House is the one, among all the names discussed, who is in the best position to advance for all recognition and who would get the most votes from Democrats in the event that Biden were to drop out of the race.
Reuters recalls that in a poll published on Tuesday, Harris was one percentage point behind Trump, a difference that could be erased by the margin of error, a result as overwhelming as Biden’s.
Biden should not run again, according to 72% of Americans
Source: Observadora
