At a campaign stop in North Carolina on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris talked about the rise of domestic manufacturing under President Joe Biden. The media’s intense interest in her showed that she is the most likely Democratic nominee for president if Biden drops his reelection bid.
“The truth is that America lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs while Trump was in office.” It was during his time in office that more than 1,000 companies shut down, Harris said in Fayetteville. “Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and I have created nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs — so much so it’s been described as a manufacturing boom.”
Top Democrats are putting a lot of pressure on Biden to drop out of the presidential race, which is why the vice president said what he did.
News reports say that both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have told Biden that his reelection campaign could hurt the party’s chances of winning seats in both houses of Congress.
Two people who know how former President Barack Obama thinks told NBC News that he has “concerns” about Biden’s ability to stay at the top of the Democratic ticket, but that he still sees his main job as a sounding board and advisor to his vice president, Joe Biden.
Megadonors for the Democrats are putting pressure on Biden to step down, and events with Harris have started to sell out.
Biden has repeatedly turned down calls to drop out, and he is currently hiding himself in Delaware after testing positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
In secret, though, his team has started to look at how a Harris-led ticket might work by polling the vice president’s chances against former President Donald Trump, a source told NBC News last week.
A new national poll by CBS/YouGov of potential voters gives the Republican nominee for president a 5-point lead over Biden, 52% to 47%. In a made-up race, Trump leads Harris by 3 points, 51% to 48%. The poll was done after the failed attempt to kill Trump on Saturday, and both scores are within the margin of error.
Harris replied to JD Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night in her speech on Thursday, which was shown live on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
Harris was referring to the policy plans made by the Heritage Foundation, a right think tank. “He did not talk about Project 2025, their 900-page blueprint for a second Trump term,” Harris said. “He did not talk about it because their plans are extreme, and they are divisive.”
“Recently, they’ve been trying to show that they are the party of unity.” Harris said, “If you say you want unity, you need to do more than just say it.” “You cannot claim you stand for unity if you are pushing an agenda that deprives whole groups of Americans of basic freedoms, opportunity, and dignity.”
Harris campaigned in Michigan on Wednesday and talked up the administration’s accomplishments, such as limiting the cost of insulin and expanding the child tax credit. She also talked about efforts to reduce student debt.
“It is clear if Donald Trump were to win in November, he will continue to sell out working families, he will continue to attack reproductive freedom and he will continue to undermine our democracy,” he said.
Harris is going to North Carolina for the seventh time this year and the second time this month. North Carolina is a key state that Democrats want to win back after Trump narrowly won it in 2020.
Harris spoke at a campaign event in Greensboro on July 11. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who is not running for reelection, joined her. At the gathering on Thursday, Cooper spoke as well. Cooper was attorney general of North Carolina at the same time that Harris was attorney general of California.
