Ever since Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential election race in America, it is believed that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the presidential candidate from the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris has also got enough support to get the nomination of the Democratic Party, so now only the formal announcement of her name is left. With the name of Kamala Harris coming out, a big change is also being seen in American politics. Till last week, Republican candidate Donald Trump was leading in all the surveys, but now Kamala Harris seems to be ahead. This is the situation when her name has not even been formally announced yet.
Kamala Harris’s support is growing
Let us tell you that many things have come to light from the latest surveys in America. Like Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a lead of two percentage points over Republican Donald Trump. According to the results of the Reuters-Ipsos poll, 44 percent of voters liked Kamala Harris and 42 percent of voters liked Donald Trump. Apart from this, in the Ipsos poll for US ABC News, Democratic voters supported Biden’s withdrawal by 60-39. The survey also shows that if Biden had contested the election, he would have lost, but the US Senate survey in the states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona shows that the Democratic candidates are winning and performing much better than Biden. That is, Biden was the only problem for the Democrats.
Apart from this, there are two more things that should benefit Kamala Harris. One is that economic data has improved, inflation has come down and real earnings have increased. The second thing is that Biden will be around 82 years old by the time of the election, while Harris will be 60 years old by then. Trump is 78 years old, so the age division which was unfavorable for Biden will be favorable for Kamala Harris. Also, the extent of growing support for Kamala Harris can be gauged from the fact that there has been a flood of financial supporters in her election campaign. Kamala Harris’s campaign team reported on Tuesday morning that she had raised more than $100 million from 1.1 million donors in the first 41 hours after President Biden announced his resignation.
As far as the support Kamala Harris is getting within her party is concerned, let us tell you that she has secured the support of enough delegates. Kamala Harris of Indian-African origin has got the support of 1976 delegates which is more than the number required to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency. Let us tell you that Kamala Harris was born to immigrant parents (a black father and an Indian mother). Her father Donald Harris was from Jamaica and her mother Shyamala Gopalan was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist from Chennai.
Joe Biden’s statement
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has termed his decision to withdraw from the presidential election race proposed in November as the ‘right step’ and said that he will soon be seen campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden urged the members of his campaign team to ’embrace’ Vice President Kamala Harris. He stressed that even though the name of the campaign team has been changed to ‘Harris Campaign’, its mission remains the same – to defeat Donald Trump. Biden said that we still need to save democracy. Trump is still a threat to the community. He is a threat to the country. Ask my foreign policy colleagues, my counterparts and the people of the country and the world. I hope that like me, Kamala will also be supported with all her heart and soul.
Kamala Harris statement
On the other hand, Kamala Harris has started her presidential campaign with a scathing attack on Republican candidate Donald Trump, alleging that the former president wants to take the country backwards. Addressing her campaign team in Wilmington, Delaware, Kamala Harris said that Trump’s controversial Project 2025 “will weaken the middle class and once again take us back to those failed policies under which billionaires and big companies were given huge tax breaks and working people were made to compensate for it.” Targeting Trump, she said, “Donald Trump wants to take our country back to the era when many Americans did not have full freedom and rights. But we believe in a bright future in which there is a place for all Americans. We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not only to earn a livelihood, but also to move forward. Kamala said, “We believe in a future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every person can buy a home, raise a family and earn wealth, where every person has access to paid family leave and affordable child care. We want such a future.
She said, “Together we are struggling to build a nation where every person gets affordable health care, where every employee gets a fair salary, and where every senior citizen can retire with dignity. All these will be the important goals of my presidency, because we know that if our middle class is strong, then America will be strong.” Kamala alleged that this is not the future for which Donald Trump is fighting.
Kamala reminded that before becoming the Vice President or being elected to the Senate, she was the Attorney General of California. She also practiced law for a long time. Kamala said, “In those roles, I fought legal battles against all kinds of criminals, including those who abuse women, cheat consumers, break rules for personal gain. So, when I say that I know what Donald Trump is like, take my word for it.” The Vice President said, “During the campaign, I will proudly present my record against Trump. As a young prosecutor, when I was in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office in California, I specialized in cases related to sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found guilty by a jury in a sexual abuse case.”
