2023-04-30 05:30:09
Suddenly, Kamala Harris grabs the microphone and walks away from the podium, pacing the dais. His voice becomes more tense, embodied. “These extremists, supposed leaders, dare to tell us what is in our best interest. I say that I trust American women. I trust the American people to make decisions that affect them. (… ) So don’t get in our way, because otherwise we’re going to get up, we’re going to organize, we’re going to speak up. »
Mainly made up of African-Americans, the audience, completely won over to the Vice-President of the United States, vigorously applauded her denunciation of a « agenda national » of the right aiming to call into question fundamental individual rights, such as abortion.
This unusual improvisation by Kamala Harris in front of students at Howard University in Washington, had place on a particular day. On this Monday, April 25, in the early morning, Joe Biden’s first campaign clip for his re-election in 2024 had been broadcast, formalizing an early decision for months. In this video, his running mate appeared many times by his side, suggestive images of a handover. He, 80, she, 58. He, the white veteran of American politics, she, the mixed-blood woman, of Jamaican and Indian origin, embodying greater diversity at the top of the state. These images also sought to give credibility to Kamala Harris. They showed her as a major actress and not as an extra, in the confidence of major decisions and not in the throes of a position with an always uncertain perimeter.
The age of Joe Biden raises the question of his possible inability to assume, in the event of re-election, his function until the end, even that of his death. It is in the minds, it already weighs in the polls, largely explaining the lack of enthusiasm among Democratic sympathizers at the idea of a new candidacy.
This question about the health of Joe Biden – which Donald Trump, 76, cannot himself escape – puts unprecedented pressure on his running mate. Nikki Haley, candidate for the Republican nomination, opened hostilities on the antenna of the conservative channel Fox News, on April 26. “If you vote for Joe Biden, you’re actually counting on a President Harris, because the idea that he will make it to 86 is not something likely, I think”did she say.
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