Kamala Harris Ignores Biden In DNC Speech
During CNN’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser David Axelrod remarked that it was “really interesting how little” Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, mentioned President Joe Biden during her speech that evening. Axelrod described the speech as, in some ways, “her declaration of independence.”
“The last point, I wanted — Scott, to your point about Biden and the strategy of the Republicans — which I understand it to be — a reasonable strategy, [is] to try and saddle her with some of the negatives that Biden has, it is really interesting how little she mentioned Joe Biden in this speech. In certain ways, this was her declaration of independence. And she became her own person in this speech. And I’ve told you before, we’ll see how this turns out, I think you’re going to have a hard time saddling her in the way that you guys are hopeful that you can,” Axelrod said.
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During NBC’s coverage of the DNC on Thursday, host Kristen Welker noted that “we didn’t hear a whole lot about how she would be different from a Biden administration” during Harris’s speech as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate that evening.
“What was notable, … when she talked about her vision for the future, it sounds a lot like she plans to build on the Biden agenda,” Welker said. “What this speech did was really fill in a lot of those blanks about her biography, growing up, being raised, largely by her mom, painting a picture, again, that theme of a strong mother as the figurehead that she had at the head of her table who inspired her to become the person who she is, what inspired her to become a prosecutor, all of those details getting filled in. And then when she talked about what she plans to do for the country, she talked about things like cutting taxes for the middle class, she talked about things like voting rights, things that really matter to Democrats. But, again, we didn’t hear a whole lot about how she would be different from a Biden administration.”
