Kamala Harris Says She Didn’t Ask Biden for an Endorsement but ‘It Was Clear He Was Going to Support Me’

The vice president details her private call with the president in which he decided to step away from his re-election campaign in CNN interview

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the DNC 2024
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Kamala Harris recounted her phone call with President Joe Biden after deciding to withdraw from the race in a CNN interview, saying “It was clear he was going to support me,” in the 2024 presidential race. 

In her first interview since accepting the Democratic nomination, the vice president praised Biden’s policy record and personal character, saying that he “cares so deeply,” and is “loyal” to the American people. “He has the intelligence, the commitment and the judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president,” she added. 

“By contrast, the former president has none of that,” Harris said of her opponent.

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