The outgoing presidential duo of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris thanked the deep-pocketed Democratic donors who supported Harris' campaign for the White House, defeated in November by Republican Donald Trump.
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who They raised record sums in the campaign which ended last month with a defeat against President-elect Donald Trump and urged them not to lose hope and to remain politically committed.
In their speeches at the Democratic National Committee's holiday reception, Biden and Harris, along with their spouses, sought to encourage key donors the Democratic Party needs to stay engaged as the party tries to put itself back together. Republicans achieved a decisive victory by taking the White House and the Senate, while They maintained control of the House in an election where donors from all political spectrums spent about $4.7 billion.
“We all fall. “My father said that when you fall, you just have to get up,” Biden said. “The measure of a person or a party is how quickly they rise up.”
Harris, who took over as the party's presidential candidate after Biden ended his campaign In July after her disastrous debate performance, she praised donors for investing their time — and their checkbooks — in supporting her and the Democrats they believed in.
Democrats, their allied campaign platforms and other groups raised about $2.9 billion, compared with about $1.8 billion for Republicans. Harris noted that Democrats raised an impressive $700 million in just 700 events hosted by the Democratic finance committee.
“They mobilized, they opened their homes, they reached out to their friends and family,” said Harris, who will soon begin seriously evaluating her own future and whether to run for the White House again. “They put their personal capital — and by that I mean their relationships — on the line to talk to people because they care deeply, and they connected with people and took the time to remind them what's at stake and what was at stake. game”.
Although Biden recognized the pain that the democrats Still feeling from last month's defeat, he said they should be proud of what they accomplished.
His administration's signature achievements include a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill, the CHIPS and Science Act 2022 to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, and an increase in federal environmental spending through the Inflation Reduction Lawwhich Biden signed into law in 2022 after it was passed by Congress with only Democratic votes.
“Without you, we could never have accomplished so much,” Biden said. “Not only did they contribute to the campaign, but they did something, I think, even more important. “They were willing to lend their names, their reputations, their character to the effort.”
Biden said he intended to remain involved in party politics once he leaves office on Jan. 20. He also predicted that he expected Harris to remain a central figure in the party's future.
“You're not going anywhere, girl. “We are not going to leave you,” Biden told Harris.