Joe Biden, 77, and California Senator Kamala Harris, 55, will
appear together for the first time since the announcement in Wilmington,
Delaware on Wednesday
The event comes as Biden made history by announcing he will be
running with the first black woman to appear on a major party's presidential
ticket
Following the reveal, the campaign saw its biggest ever one-day
fundraising haul
ActBlue, the Democratic Party's main donation
platform saw more than $10.8 million in donations flood in following the
announcement Tuesday evening
Trump immediately bashed the pick, calling
Harris 'nasty' and 'mean'
He said Wednesday, however, the she is the
type of vice presidential opponent that 'everyone dreams of!'
'Kamala Harris started strong in the Democrat
Primaries, and finished weak, ultimately fleeing the race with almost zero
support,' Trump tweeted Wednesday
Biden, who spent eight years as President
Barack Obama's vice president, has been weighing who would fill that same role
in his White House for months
He pledged in March to select a woman as his vice president
A woman has never served as president or vice president in the
United States
oe Biden and Kamala Harris will appear on Wednesday afternoon
together in Wilmington, Delaware less than 24 hours after the presumptive
Democratic nominee finally announced the California senator as his running
mate.
The duo will deliver remarks from Biden's home state on the
tailcoats of his campaign's biggest fundraising night ever.
Biden's announcement Tuesday night ignited the biggest hour of
online fundraising of his campaign as millions of dollars gushed into the
campaign's pocket.
Although the former vice president's campaign did not disclose how
much it raised on Tuesday night alone, ActBlue, the main donation platform for
Democrats, reported it saw more than $10.8 million in donations flood the site
between 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
The same platform also processed $2.3 million during those same
hours Monday evening as suspense grew for Biden's announcement.
According to an estimate, Tuesday was ActBlue's fifth largest
fundraising day ever.
Later Wednesday night, Harris, 55, and Biden, 77, will also take
part in a virtual grassroots fundraiser to bring in even more funds off of
Biden's announcement that he will be running with the first black woman to ever
grace a major party's presidential ticket.
President Donald Trump expressed Tuesday shock over Biden's VP
pick, pointing to the times the California senator labeled Biden as
'essentially racist.'
He also called Harris 'nasty' and 'mean' at his press conference
Tuesday evening and his campaign released a one-minute attack video that also
labeled her as 'phony.'
Trump, however, revealed at the briefing that Harris would have
been his 'number one pick', if he were to be given a choice over who he and
Vice President Pence would most like to face off against this coming November.
'@KamalaHarris started strong in the Democrat Primaries, and
finished weak, ultimately fleeing the race with almost zero support,' Trump
tweeted Wednesday morning. 'That's the kind of opponent everyone dreams of!'
In an interview on Fox News Sunday night, the president continued
to rail against Biden's choice.
'She was one of the people that was projected to have a chance at
winning. All she did as people got to know her, she went down. She finished at
2%, probably less than that and she fled. Remember how quickly. She said
horrible things about Biden,' Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity. 'She made
terrible statements. She essentially called him a racist. And other things that
were very bad.'
Shortly after the news broke, Trump revealed that he was 'a little
surprised' given her 'very poor' primary performance.
'She did very very poorly in primaries, she ended up right around
two per cent,' Trump noted.
'She was very disrespectful to Joe Biden. It's hard to pick someone
that was that disrespectful,' Trump continued referring to a moment in the
Democratic debates last summer.
'When she said things during the debates, during the Democratic
primary debates that were horrible about Sleepy Joe, I would think you would
not have picked her,' Trump said, slipping in an insult against his chief
rival.
But despite his surprise, Trump said that Harris would have also
been his pick in order to secure victory and a second term in the White House.
'She was my number one draft pick. She was the
one I thought would be the best for us.'
The president told reporters that Harris was
'about the most liberal person in the U.S. Senate.'
'I would have thought that Biden would have
tried to stay away from that a little bit,' he said.
In choosing Harris, Biden is embracing a
former rival from the Democratic primary who is familiar with the unique rigor
of a national campaign.
The first-term senator, who is also of South
Asian descent, is one of the party's most prominent figures. She quickly became
a top contender for the No. 2 spot after her own White House campaign ended.
In announcing the pick, Biden called Harris a
'fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public
servants.' She said Biden would 'unify the American people' and 'build an
America that lives up to our ideals.'
Harris joins Biden at a moment of unprecedented national crisis.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 160,000 people in
the U.S., far more than the toll experienced in other countries.
Business closures and disruptions resulting from the pandemic have
caused severe economic problems. Unrest, meanwhile, has emerged across the
country as Americans protest racism and police brutality.
Trump's uneven handling of the crises has given Biden an opening,
and he enters the fall campaign in strong position against the president.
In adding Harris to the ticket, he can point to her relatively
centrist record on issues such as health care and her background in law
enforcement in the nation's largest state.
At his Tuesday news conference Trump launched a series of angry
personal attacks and accusations at the nation's first black female vice
presidential nominee, calling Harris
'nasty' and 'mean' .
Trump leveled the insults from the White House
podium, taking on a vice presidential choice Democrats embraced in part because
of her experience on the television stage after vowing to 'prosecute' Trump.
'She was very nasty, – one of the reasons that
surprised me, she was probably nastier than even Pocahontas to Joe Biden,'
Trump said, using the slur he often attaches to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts, another contender.
Trump also brought up her blasts at Brett
Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court.
'I have been watching her for a long time and
I was a little surprised. She was extraordinarily nasty to Judge Kavanaugh, now Justice
Kavanaugh. She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing, the way she
was, the way she treated now Justice Kavanaugh. And I won't forget that soon,'
Trump said of Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing,' Trump said.
'I thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, most
disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate' toward Kavanaugh, who faced
accusations of rape during his confirmation hearing, which Kavanaugh
denied.
Trump also called her a 'person who's told very many stories that
aren't true,' and made repeated efforts to tie her to the 'radical left.'
Trump was much higher on Harris when he got
asked about her just days ago on July 29th, when she was already in the news as
a potential pick. 'I think she'd be a fine choice, Kamala Harris, she'd be a
fine choice,' Trump said at the White House.
His campaign steered clear of the same harsh
personal attacks in a press call with reporters that mostly focused on
ideology, although the campaign only allowed for two questions before ending
it.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn on the call accused
Harris of being for sanctuary cities and 'open borders,' but notably did not
repeat Trump's accusations of Harris being mean and nasty.
The attacks from the White House podium came
after Biden selected as his nominee the
former rival who delivered the most cutting attack of the 2020 nominating
process – a fellow member of the Senate 'club' who accused him of working with
segregationists and opposing school bussing.
It was a dramatic moment it did not take the
Trump campaign long to recall. Team Trump blasted out a web video shortly after her selection
calling Harris a 'phony' and 'attacking Joe Biden for racist policies.'
It also sought to cast her as part of the
'radical left,' although one reason Biden may have selected Harris is her
record as a former California attorney general, potentially blunting attacks on
any nominee.
The video flashed an image of Harris'
performance in a a debate, where Harris knocked Biden back with her attack.
'Meet phony Kamala Harris!' the Trump campaign
wrote in a tweet containing the video.
A Trump campaign text called her 'Phony
Kamala,' using her first name only, an indication that may be the insult Trump
seeks to brand her with.............
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