2024-07-25 18:46:05
Former US President (2009-2017) Barack Obama will soon support Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid for the White House, despite media speculation that the former leader does not believe she will succeed in the election.
As reported by Day.Az with reference to TASS, it was reported by TV company NBC with reference to sources.
According to their information, Obama has already privately endorsed Harris. The former president’s wife, Michelle Obama, also supports her candidacy. According to the sources, Obama has not yet publicly endorsed the vice presidential nomination because he did not want the news “to overshadow President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address” on Wednesday. “He communicates with her regularly [Харрис] and believes that her election campaign has started well,” the publication notes.
According to the television company, Obama and Harris’ aides have already discussed the possibility of their joint appearance during her election campaign, but an exact date has not yet been agreed upon. Obama believes that his participation in Harris’s campaign could help unite the Democratic Party in the fight against Republican candidate Donald Trump. According to several sources, Obama has already begun giving Harris advice on the work of the campaign staff.
On July 22, The New York Times reported that Obama did not support Harris’s nomination and believed it was necessary to make the process of choosing the Democratic nominee more competitive. On July 25, The New York Post reported that Obama believed Vice President Kamala Harris could not defeat Trump in the election.
The presidential election in the United States will be held on November 5. It was assumed that the Democratic Party would be represented by the country’s current leader, Joe Biden. However, after his disastrous performance in the televised debate with Trump on June 27, calls for the US president to abandon further attempts to retain his post have become increasingly loud in the US, including in the Democratic camp. Biden announced on July 21 that he would not seek re-election, supporting the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate.
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