The Case for Kamala
Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to earn and win the Democratic nomination.
Unquestionably the most qualified person to serve as President of the United States, VP Harris has spent the past four years as a governing partner to the most experienced President in American history. She has helped pass and implement historic legislation like the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as well as traveled to more than 20 countries meeting with over 150 world leaders. If elected President, she would enter that office with more significant national security experience than any of the four Presidents prior to Biden.
Her record as VP builds on a distinguished career as a District Attorney, twice elected Attorney General, and United States Senator from the nation’s largest state.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the candidate best positioned to beat Donald Trump.
No one is better prepared than a successful twice-elected Attorney General of California who won an $18 billion-plus lawsuit against corrupt financial corporations for her constituents. She is the party’s leading messenger on reproductive freedom and will ensure that Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade is front and center in this election. Her work as a prosecutor makes her the ultimate contrast to Trump, the convicted felon.
She represents the next generation of the Democratic Party and can make the issue of age and fitness a liability for Trump, and has already generated strong support from advocates for reproductive rights, democracy, young voters, LGBTQ+ rights, unions, and minorities.
Even before she had the chance to focus the public’s attention on her background, polling shows VP Harris is in a strong position to beat Donald Trump.
Many polls already show VP Harris beating Trump outright. The most recent (August 2024) Marist National Poll shows Harris leads Trump among Independents. She is well positioned to mobilize key constituencies of the Democratic coalition, including young voters, black voters, Latino voters, and women. Multiple polls show she is the overwhelming favorite among Democratic voters to represent the Democratic Party in the general election, making her the best candidate to unite and lead the party.
VP Harris is battle-tested and has been taking the fight to Donald Trump for years.
Vice President Harris was part of the only ticket to ever beat Trump, earning 81 million votes in 2020 as Joe Biden’s running mate. Over the last several months, more than 14 million voters supported President Biden in the primary, knowing Vice President Harris would be the person to step in for him if required. The VP has been campaigning for over a year in more than 20 states and has raised tens of millions of dollars for the campaign.
Since launching her presidential bid less than two weeks ago, her campaign has seen a dramatic increase in donations, pushing her over $310 million raised in July alone, the best grassroots fundraising month in U.S. history, with two-thirds of the haul coming from first-time donors. After announcing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her VP pick, another $20 million came in with another $10 million raised from grassroots supporters alone.
VP Harris has hit the ground running with the campaign’s existing resources and infrastructure, rather than waiting months to take the fight to Trump.
She can immediately tap the campaign’s nearly $96 million in cash-on-hand, and has already filed paperwork to re-designate the committee as “Harris for President”. Just this past week, the Democratic delegates voting 99% in favor of making Harris their candidate before the upcoming DNC convention.
While VP Harris is proud to have President Biden’s endorsement, she is committed to earning this nomination in her own right. In the coming days and weeks, the Vice President plans to be out across the country to campaign and win the support of as many pledged delegates and voters as possible. Her ambitious schedule of the past week since adding Tim Walz to the ticket has been met with 10-15,000 attendees at her events, filling the venues to the rafters and providing infectious positive energy to America across all demographics.
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