Vice President Harris, seen right here on the White Home on November 8, made a fast journey to South Carolina on Friday to file the official paperwork for the state’s Democratic major.
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Vice President Harris, seen right here on the White Home on November 8, made a fast journey to South Carolina on Friday to file the official paperwork for the state’s Democratic major.
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Vice President Harris made a fast journey to Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday to file paperwork for the state’s Feb. 3 Democratic major.
The journey, which was stored carefully guarded by the Biden-Harris marketing campaign and the White Home, highlights the main shift Democrats have made of their calendar for this yr’s presidential primaries.
As a substitute of beginning in New Hampshire and Iowa, the celebration selected South Carolina, a state that revived President Biden’s marketing campaign in 2020 and whose giant base of black voters was key to Biden’s victory that yr.
Harris stated in statements to Democrats gathered on the celebration’s headquarters in Columbia that South Carolina “paved the best way to the White Home for me and Joe Biden.”
“I am right here to say thanks. I am right here to say, ‘Let’s do it once more. We’ll do it once more,’” Harris stated.
Harris’ journey comes on the heels of Tuesday’s off-year election that confirmed some strengths for Democrats. Poll initiatives have proven that voters strongly help abortion entry, a difficulty that Harris led to the White Home.
“We’re right here with the wind at our again. Did anybody discover what occurred on Tuesday?” Harris stated, noting that Democrats carried out higher than anticipated within the 2022 midterm elections.
With the presidential election halted for a yr, opinion polls present that voters are unenthusiastic about Biden and his document on the economic system. They fear that he’s too previous to serve a second time period.
This week, Biden and his marketing campaign intensified their assaults on former President Donald Trump, the front-runner Republican candidate for the 2024 race.
The marketing campaign has to this point targeted on attempting to focus on Biden’s achievements in financing giant infrastructure tasks, creating manufacturing jobs, investing in electrical autos and taking steps to decrease prescription drug costs for seniors.
Harris has been deployed to 19 faculty campuses to this point this yr to talk with younger voters on points like local weather, abortion and gun legal guidelines.