Hillary Clinton looks forward to Kamala Harris’ 'compelling case against Trump'

23 July 2024

Shortly after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to pursue the presidency, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also endorsed Harris in a statement posted to social media.

"We are honored to join the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and will do whatever we can to support her," the couple wrote.

On Tuesday, The New York Times published an op-ed penned by 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in which the longtime Democratic leader acknowledged that although Biden's move created "a bittersweet" moment, it also gave the party and the country "a renewed sense of purpose."

Also acknowledging that "Harris will face unique additional challenges as the first Black and South Asian woman to be at the top of a major party’s ticket," the ex-presidential hopeful submitted that "we shouldn’t be afraid."

Clinton noted, "I won the national popular vote by nearly three million in 2016, and it’s not so long ago that Americans overwhelmingly elected our first Black president."

Pointing to more challenges Harris will face, Clinton also has hope, writing:

Time is short to organize the campaign on her behalf, but the Labour Party in Britain and a broad left-wing coalition in France recently won big victories with even less time. Ms. Harris will have to reach out to voters who have been skeptical of Democrats and mobilize young voters who need convincing. But she can run on a strong record and ambitious plans to further reduce costs for families, enact common-sense gun safety laws and restore and protect our rights and freedoms.

Furthermore, highlighting Biden and Harris' accomplishments, the former Secretary of State also emphasizes:

Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris led America’s comeback after Mr. Trump bungled the pandemic and left our economy in free fall. Under their leadership, the United States has created more than 15 million jobs, and unemployment is near a 50-year low.

When inflation spiked around the globe, many economists said the only way to tame it would be a painful recession with major job losses. But Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris kept Americans working as inflation fell back toward normal levels and real incomes for working people rose.

Clinton concludes that Harris is prepared to beat Trump.

"The vice president’s law enforcement experience gives her the credibility to rebut Mr. Trump’s lies about crime and immigration," she writes. "The facts are on her side: After spiking under Mr. Trump, the murder rate is plummeting under the Biden-Harris administration. Illegal border crossings are also dropping fast and are now the lowest they’ve been since 2020, thanks in part to Mr. Biden’s recent executive order. We’d be making even more progress if Mr. Trump hadn’t killed a bipartisan immigration compromise in Congress this year for his own selfish political purposes."

Clinton emphasizes, "The next 15 weeks will be like nothing this country has ever experienced politically, but have no doubt: This is a race Democrats can and must win."

Clinton's full op-ed is available at this link (subscription required).

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