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HEADLINE: Democrats face new challenges after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from 2024 campaign
TEASER: Analysts say Vice President Kamala Harris remains unknown to many Americans with just four months until Election Day
PUBLISHED AT: Monday 7/22/24 at
BYLINE: Richard Green
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After weeks of speculation and intense pressure from within his own Democratic Party, U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor sent shockwaves across the nation Sunday.
VOA’s Richard Green has more on how Biden’s withdrawal reshapes the 2024 race for the White House.
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People lined the streets outside the White House Sunday evening hours after President Biden’s announcement, with many expressing their support for his decision.
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((USE CHYRON “Trevor Higgins, Biden Supporter”))
For me, President Biden was the greatest climate president that we’ve had, and he delivered an opportunity for us to stop climate change, and I’ll be forever grateful for that.”
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“I’m very fond, if that’s the right word, of Joe Biden and what he’s done. And I would like him to be remembered as a really great president. And I was sort of afraid that his frailty would detract from that.”
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Biden was already trailing former Republican president Donald Trump in voter opinion surveys before their nationally-televised debate last month.
His frail and confused appearance sparked fears among congressional Democrats and other influential party leaders that the 81-year-old Biden would not only lose the rematch against his 2020 opponent, but bring down other Democratic candidates in key House and Senate races.
Gary Schmitt, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute policy research group, says Biden’s withdrawal may have resurrected his party’s chances..but it brings up other challenges as well.
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“The real question is whether Kamala Harris…who's a liberal Democrat from California, will have electoral strength in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which the Democrats need to win to hold on to the presidency.”
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Peter Loge, an associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, says Harris is facing another uphill battle with just four months to go before the election.
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“Part of the polling we’re seeing now about Vice President Harris is she’s not named Joe Biden, because most people don’t know her, don’t know her. She was elected statewide in California twice. She’s very smart. She’s a prosecutor. She’s run obviously nationally when she ran with Biden for vice president, so she knows what she’s doing. Democrats largely know her, but she doesn’t have the national profile, obviously, President Trump or President Biden does.”
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Harris vowed to “do everything in her power” to unite the Democratic Party and the nation to defeat Trump in November.
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She attracted scores of endorsements from fellow Democrats, including several who could challenge her nomination at next month’s convention in Chicago.
But Gary Schmitt says the outcome is not a foregone conclusion.
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((CHYRON “Gary J. Schmitt//Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute))
“I mean, you perhaps you don't want a convention that's completely wide open, because then it becomes the tears of the party apart, as opposed to rallying around one particular candidate. On the other hand, there's probably a lot of Democratic pollsters who are wondering whether Kamala Harris really is the best choice.”
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Richard Green, VOA News.
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