Kamala Harris insists that she and Biden ‘are going to win’ in snap call to donors
Vice President Kamala Harris insisted in a hastily organized call to Democratic donors Friday that she and President Biden would win the Nov. 5 election together — despite intensifying pressure on Biden to step aside.
“I will start by sharing something with all of you. Something I believe in my heart of hearts. It is something I feel strongly you should all hear and should take with you when you leave. And tell your friends too. We are going to win this election,” Harris professed.
“We are going to win.”
Harris, 59, has publicly stood b⭕y Biden, 81, and♔ Democrats widely believe she’s the most likely candidate to replace him if he drops out before the election over concerns about his mental fitness.
“We know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: Our president, Joe Biden. With every decision he makes in the Oval Office, he thinks about how it will impact working Americans. And I witness it every day. Now contrast that with what we heard last night,” Harris gushed.
The vice president said former President Donald Trump’s Republican convention acceptance speech Thursday fell short of the 78-year-old nominee’s promise of promoting “unity” after he was shot Saturday in an assassination attempt.
“Some of you may have tuned into Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. Look, so much for unity,” she scoffed.
“Throughout their convention, they had been trying to act like they want to bring the country together, but here’s the thing. If you claim to stand for unity, you need to do more than just use one word,” Harris went on.
“You cannot claim you stand for unity if you are pushing an agenda that deprives whole groups of Americans of basic freedoms, opportunity, and dignity.”
The call was promoted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a top dono﷽r to Democrats, who invited other Silicon Valley titans to join, .
“♕We continue to find ourselves in a rapidly evolving environment,” Hoffman reportedly wrote in his invite.
🅘“With the stakes as high as they are this cycle, we have t🔯o remain focused on the critical work that needs to be done to protect our democracy.”
Hoffman said the call would “discuss urgent, emerging needs” and that participants would “also hear from leaders working on the fro🅷nt lines with voters.
The incumbent is facing a full-scale rebellion from other Democratic leaders following his di💃smal June 27 debate performance.
Former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) privately have expressed concern that Biden can’t win, according to r𝓡eports this week — as down-ballot Democrats fret that a Biden loss would doom them too.
Bideไn campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder of film studio DreamWorks, reportedly warned the president Wednesday that donor funds were shriveling amid mounting calls from elected Democrats to end his candidacy for a second term.
