President Biden’s lackluster debate performance has turned the spotlight on himself Vice President Kamala HarrisWho has begun to show his campaign role more clearly as November approaches.
Harris suddenly emerges to play a pivotal role Campaign It’s a shift for a vice president who many critics have seen as a potential liability for Democrats in November.
The negativity surrounding Harris led to calls for the vice president to step aside from the campaign in March, and a Washington Post column called on Harris to “step aside” for the “sake of the country.”
Now, some have speculated that Harris could come out on top after Biden’s performance in the debate. The vice president’s visibility began to rise over the past week.
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Vice President Kamala Harris says his swearing habits have gotten worse since he took office. (AP Photo/Maury Gash)
Media outlets have taken notice, leading to a flood of positive press for the vice president in recent months. Harris was called “Biden’s secret weapon in North Carolina” in a report from The Hill, which said the vice president made her fifth trip to the battleground state last month and reached out to black communities, a largely Democratic demographic that Biden has struggled to attract in their rematch. Former President Trump.
“She’s one of the administration’s best spokespeople for the black community,” Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons told The Hill. “The president is also making a case for the black community, but obviously the vice president has a different kind of appeal.”
A February report from the Los Angeles Times declared that Harris had finally “found her rhythm,” citing the vice president’s appeal to young voters and her voice on the issues. Such as abortion.
“She has become a top fundraiser for Democrats, an emissary for groups that are lukewarm toward President Biden — particularly Black and young voters — and has emerged as the administration’s most forceful voice on issues such as abortion, women’s health and, as Harris has said, the threat posed by Trump to freedom and personal choice,” the story said.
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A few months later, a New York Times report stated that “Harris’s time has come”, and described her as “the perfect messenger” to campaign for issues such as reproductive rights.
The vice president’s position appears to be strengthening in some polls, with a poll conducted last month by Politico/Morning Consult finding the vice president’s position was strengthening across key demographics, including a 67% favorability rating among black voters.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stand on stage and wave to the crowd at a reproductive freedom campaign rally at George Mason University on January 23, 2024 in Manassas, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Survey suggests change As for Harris, who trailed Biden among black voters in the 2020 primaries, she now leads the president by four points among the crucial Democratic voting bloc.
“She’s been good at energizing bases that Democrats really need — young black voters, black women. These are constituencies that Democrats can never take for granted,” Democratic strategist Trip Yang told Politico.
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Harris’s visibility has only increased since the debate, with the vice president appearing on multiple networks to defend the president for several minutes after the debate. She also remained active during the campaign, making stops in Las Vegas, Utah and Southern California in the days following the debate.
Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling across the country on her economic opportunity tour. (Leigh Vogel/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
While several prominent Democrats have publicly stated Endorsed Biden Despite her remaining the party’s nominee, calls for Harris to be elevated to the top of the ticket are growing. The day after the debate, a New York Times opinion column declared that Harris “could win this election,” while a Vox Media column asked “What about Kamala?”
Former U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio became one of the first prominent Democrats nationally to publicly advocate for Harris to take over for Biden.
“We need to rip the Band-Aid off! There’s too much at stake,” Ryan said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that Harris “has gone above and beyond in her work.”
“She will defeat Trump in the debates, highlight the issue of the election, energize our base, bring back young voters and give us a generational change,” Ryan said. lost 2022 Senate bid “Now is the time!” said Republican J.D. Vance.
Former Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, says Biden should drop out of the presidential race. (Tyler Olson/Fox News Digital)
Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett On Tuesday, he became the first Democrat actively serving on Capitol Hill to call on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.
“Our foremost consideration must be who has the best hope of saving our democracy from an authoritarian takeover by a criminal and his gang,” he said in a statement. “There is too much at stake to risk a Trump victory — too great a risk to assume that what could not be changed in a year, what was not changed in a debate, can be changed now.”
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Unlike Ryan, Doggett did not say whether he preferred Harris or another Democrat to replace Biden.
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
