Bill and Hillary Clinton endorse Kamala Harris
“Now is the time to support Kamala Harris,” they wrote on social media.
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, have both endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace President Joe Biden as the party’s presidential candidate.
“We are honored to join the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and will do whatever we can to support her,” the Clintons said in a statement posted on X.
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“Now is the time to support Kamala Harris and fight with everything we’ve got to elect her.”
Meanwhile, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked President Joe Biden for his decades of public service and called him “one of the most consequential Presidents in American history” in a statement Sunday.
Pelosi had served as a sounding board for those anxious about the president’s viability and warned the president privately that he was dragging down other Democrats. Following Biden’s decision to stand aside, she wrote: “God blessed America with Joe Biden’s greatness and goodness.”
The former speaker, however, did not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in her statement and has previously voiced support for an open nomination process. Biden himself backed his vice president shortly after announcing his decision Sunday.
But soon after President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take over on the top of the ticket, at least four Republican lawmakers went on the offensive, slamming Harris for her role as “border czar.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson ripped into Harris online, calling her “a completely inept border czar” who “co-owns the disastrous policy failures of the Biden Administration,” in a lengthy post on social media.
“Biden endorsing Harris to replace him as Democrat nominee is just going from incognizant to incompetent,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y) posted on X.
“Kamala Harris is the Border Czar. More than NINE MILLION illegal aliens have come across our southern border and endangered American families under her leadership,” Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) wrote.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) echoed the message: “Kamala Harris has done more to hurt Hispanic Americans than any other president in US History by ignoring the rape, trafficking, and torture of Hispanic Women and CHILDREN,” she posted.