Former President Bill Clinton and two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Sunday after President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his presidential campaign after facing intense pressure from the media and his own party to do so.
“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 joint statement. “We’ve lived through many ups and downs, but nothing has made us more worried for our country than the threat posed by a second Trump term. He has promised to be a dictator on day one, and the recent ruling by his servile Supreme Court will only embolden him to further shred the Constitution.”
“Now is the time to support Kamala Harris and fight with everything we’ve got to elect her,” they added. “America’s future depends on it.”
Biden said that he was ending his campaign because it was in the best interest of the Democrat Party, but added that he intended to finish out the remainder of his term.
Shortly after he suspended his campaign, he gave a full-throated endorsement of Harris, saying that selecting her to be his vice president was “the best decision I’ve made.”
“Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year,” Biden said. “Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump.”
Harris accepted Biden’s endorsement, saying that she was “honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.”
She said that she was going to do “everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party-and unite our nation-to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” even though Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025.
“We have 107 days until Election Day,” she said. “Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”
Former President Barack Obama did not endorse Harris in a statement he released on Sunday where he called the situation that Democrats find themselves in “uncharted waters.”
“I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges,” he said.
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