The marching band played and the crowd chanted ‘four more years’. It showed that the US Vice President Kamala Harris looked like she was enjoying being out of Joe Biden’s shadow.
From criticising abortion bans to seeking the support of Black voters, the 59-year-old Harris is taking a role in Biden’s campaign to win a second term by again defeating Donald Trump.
US Vice President Kamala Harris looked like she was enjoying being out of Joe Biden’s shadow as a marching band played and the crowd chanted four more years.
From condemning abortion bans to wooing Black voters, the 59-year-old Harris is taking a starring role in Biden’s campaign to win a second term by again defeating Donald Trump.
Harris made US history when she became the first female, Black and South Asian vice president in 2021 but then spent much of Biden’s first term getting often low-profile tasks from her boss. But things have changed drastically since the 2024 campaign kicked into high gear.
Harris has become the face of the White House’s efforts to target what she has called Trump abortion bans in more than 21 US states, an issue Democrats see as a vote winner.
‘This is a fight for freedom’, said Harris to cheers in Jacksonville, Florida, as she slammed the state’s new ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
‘She is charging across the country, inspiring the fight for women’, the city’s mayor Donna Deegan told the event, which finished with a show by a band from a historically Black university.
Aides said Harris had been taking the lead on the issue since the first reports two years ago that the US Supreme Court would overturn the half-century-old nationwide right to abortion.
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