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It is clear the clock is not just ticking, it is banging,
she said in a speech last year, referring to increasingly severe and frequent disasters spurred by climate change This issue cannot be reduced to a political issue. We’re talking about children, we’re talking about families, we are talking about suffering.”
In 2021, she visited the U.S.-Mexico border and said We are very clear, and I think most Americans are clear, that we have a broken immigration system and we need to fix it,
What was at stake then, and now, is the right to have our future decided the way the Constitution prescribes it: by we the people, all the people.”
I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,
With this selfless and patriotic act, President Biden is doing what he has done throughout his life of service: putting the American people and our country above everything else,
Harris said in her statement There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me,
she said in a barbed attack on her future boss I am ready to serve. There's no question about that".
Harris told the Wall Street Journal in February We need you to be Momala of the country".
Earlier this year, she was mocked after she told chat show host Drew Barrymore her family sometimes called her "Momala," and Barrymore replied India is the oldest democracy in the world -- so that is part of my background, and without question has had a great deal of influence on what I do today and who I am."
Speaking about India's influence on her life, Harris told CNN It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term."
In his announcement, Biden expressed Harris has done a lot to bring in really fundamental parts of our base, and I’m excited to see voters that have been in a column of not interested in either party get excited,
We are ready to lock in and support Vice President Harris in her new role,
From the very beginning, I made no bones about that,
Joe Biden is going to be fine, so that is not going to come to fruition,
My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it's been the best decision I've made, ... Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it's time to come together and beat Trump. Let's do this."
Democrats -- it's time to come together and beat Trump,
Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last."
She often repeated a line she credited to her mother I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That's what I opposed."
Today, just maybe, they're seeing themselves for the first time in a new way, as the stuff of presidents and vice presidents,