Biden says Harris ‘would make a great president’ at first joint event since dropping out of race – live
Biden says Harris ‘would make a great president’
Joe Biden came on stage and began by paying tribute Kamala HarrisWho is in the race to become his successor in the White House.
“I have an incredible partner in all the progress we’ve made,” the President said. “She’s going to be a great President.”
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Kamala Harris’s campaign has released a new video in which he and his running mate, Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, He describes his ticket as happy underdogs on their way to victory.
“Our campaign is an underdog campaign,” Harris told Walz in the 10-minute video. Video.
And along with our happiness, we also have to understand that we are still up against some forces that are trying to divide our country.
Walz compared the election to a football game, saying it’s “half-time in America,” to which Harris responded: “I’m looking at Coach Walz right now.”
This video reminds us of a similar incident Joe Biden And Barack Obama during the 2020 campaign, the AP reported.
secret Service has approved a new security plan for better protection. Donald Trump At outdoor events, The Washington Post Reporting.
The Post quoted a Secret Service official as saying that the security plan also included the use of bulletproof glass to protect him on stage.
The effort comes after the Secret Service urged Trump’s campaign to temporarily halt his participation in outdoor rallies following an assassination attempt on the former president at an open-air rally last month.
Filmmaker Michael Moore was one of the few prominent left-wing thinkers to have predicted Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, but he feels better about Kamala Harris and the Democrats’ chances of winning this year. In an interview with the Guardian Edward HelmoreHe explained his reasoning:
With Joe Biden likely to run for re-election, Democrats feared they were heading for electoral disaster. Now, with Biden out of the election and becoming vice president, Kamala HarrisAt the top of the ticket, it suddenly feels like Donald Trump is the one looking at likely defeat.
Liberal filmmaker and Democratic whisperer michael moore He said he is more optimistic than he was when Trump first stepped up the escalator at Trump Tower eight years ago to announce his presidential bid.
“It’s not just a sugar-high or what (recovering) heroin addicts call a pink cloud,” Moore says. “It was very depressing for several weeks and then it was immediately not depressing. Now I’m hopeful, but it’s our job to ruin it — and we have a history of ruining it.”
Moore, 70, has become something of an election sage in recent years. He predicted Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, in part because of a sense of political-cultural superiority by Democrats and because he saw that the campaign was afraid to inspire MAGA supporters. He predictedAt the same time, it also said that Democrats will reverse this trend and do well in the 2022 midterm elections.
In this election cycle, he is in some ways analogous to pollster Nate Silver, who Recently said: “The Harris campaign’s strategy should triangulate, and do exactly the opposite, the strategy of Hillary 2016, the Harris 2020 primary campaign, and Biden 2024.”
But Moore says he understands why Democrats are nervous that the Harris-Walz ticket could break up, even though there are no signs of that happening, especially if Harris is held responsible for Biden’s unpopular “Bidenomics” or her full-throated support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Speaking of the press conference, Donald Trump An event is planned for 4.30 pm and the Harris campaign is trying to make the most of it.
He sent reporters a sarcastic advisory, which you can read below, telling them that the former president is prepared to “talk nonsense” in a location that “is not a battlefield.” In fact, the location would be Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Here’s more information:
“Keep listening to the same old stuff,” the campaign of Trump’s Democratic rival advises.
This will be the second time the former president has taken questions from reporters in as many weeks. The last time he did so, Trump said a variety of things, including that he spoke to more people than the crowd. martin luther king jr,
Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance is looking forward to debating Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.
Earlier today, Ohio Senator Accepted Walz offered a debate on October 1, as well as a September 18 contest. Harris campaign were told A few hours later, he said Walz would only participate in the October debate.
At a campaign event in Pennsylvania this morning, Vance discussed why he was so interested in debating the Minnesota governor:
Sen @jdevans On the October 1 vice presidential debate against Governor Tim Walz: “That’s really not what I hope to get out of these additional debates, it’s that the American people deserve to see the people who want to be their vice president debate…” pic.twitter.com/ADjyy1Y4lQ
— CSPN (@cspan) August 15, 2024
This is the second day in a row that Vance has ended his speech by answering questions from reporters in attendance, which is a bit unconventional and an attempt to set himself apart from other reporters. Harris has not given any interviews or press conferences since announcing her candidacy for president.
House Republicans accuse Biden of ‘price fixing’ by introducing legislation to lower prescription drug costs
Joe Biden He didn’t have much good to say about the Republican Party, as he praised Medicare’s negotiation of lower prices for 10 popular drugs, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act he signed into law in 2022.
While the president was speaking, top Republicans in the House of Representatives made it clear they still don’t like the law, because they say it allows “price fixing.”
The joint statement issued by the Speaker of the House reveals that, mike johnsonMajority Leader, Steve ScaliseWhip, Tom Emmer, and Conference Chairman, Elise Stefanik,
Two years after congressional Democrats passed the failed Inflation Expansion Act, Americans are still realizing the devastating effects this legislation had on our economy.
One of the most frightening provisions of the law is the power given to bureaucrats to artificially set the prices of prescription drugs, which is already causing great harm to the American healthcare system. Patients are getting fewer choices, higher prices, and less treatment, while the American pharmaceutical industry – which currently leads the world in the development of new drugs – is now in danger of losing its competitive advantage over the rest of the world.
There is no doubt that price gouging has failed in every region and every country where it has been tried. The Biden-Harris administration says it wants to lower prices for families, but their prescription drug pricing plan has accomplished only two things: raising health care costs and stifling American innovation in medicine.
The White House estimated that 2,300 people attended Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ speech in Washington DC Suburb of Largo, Maryland.
Commencement speakers included the state’s governor. wes mooreThe crowd realized this, and chanted “48” when he was on stage.
Biden is the 46th president, and Harris is the Democratic nominee to become the 47th, but the race for the 48th president is, at this early stage, wide open.
Joe Biden concluded his statement by saying that his 52-year career in politics would soon come to an end.
“I thank God that in the last three months that I’ve been president of the United States, I’ve finally been able to do the things that I tried to do when I was a young senator,” Biden said.
Before leaving the stage, Kamala Harris They came back out. Both held each other’s hands and lifted them up, then left.
Biden seems to be in a pretty aggressive mood today.
He continued to attack the Republicans, Project 2025It’s a right-wing plan to remake the American government, featuring many former Trump officials.
“We’re not backing down, and you may have heard about the MAGA Republicans’ Project 2025,” Biden said.
“They want to eliminate Medicare’s right to negotiate drug prices… Let me tell you what our Project 2025 is all about: beating them to the punch.”
Biden calls Republican candidate a ‘Donald Dump’
Joe Biden He turned his remarks toward the Republican Party, saying the party does not support the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which authorizes Medicare to negotiate drug prices, leading to the price cuts announced today.
Then he said a new derogatory term Donald TrumpWhose name he was pretending to have forgotten.
“We finally defeated Big Pharma, and I’d like to add that the Republicans did not help us with that. Not a single Republican voted for this bill, not one in the entire Congress,” the president said.
He then said the reason no Republican lawmaker voted in favor of the bill was “because of the person we’re running against.”
“What’s his name?” Biden asked. “Donald Dump?”
Biden says Harris ‘would make a great president’
Joe Biden came on stage and began by paying tribute Kamala HarrisWho is in the race to become his successor in the White House.
“I have an incredible partner in all the progress we’ve made,” the President said. “She’s going to be a great President.”
Harris then made way for Biden to take the stage and said the president would talk about the results of Medicare price negotiations.
“Over the last two years, we’ve been using this new power to drive down the price of lifesaving drugs. And, now, to announce the outcome of those negotiations. It is my eternal and great, great, great honor, I have to tell you, to serve with this most extraordinary human being and American and leader, our president, Joe Biden” Harris said.
The two hugged and then Biden began his speech.