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VP Harris responded to polls showing Trump ahead of Biden, stating that they must prove themselves worthy of re-election.
“We’re going to have to earn our re-elect, there’s no doubt about it,” Harris said during a phone interview with CNN.
Several recent 2024 polls have shown Biden trailing Trump in a number of recent polls, including a recent one from NBC News that gave Trump a narrow advantage.
“It is absolutely right in a democracy with free and fair elections that the candidates, the people who want to continue in leadership, have to make their case and have to make it effectively,” Harris told CNN. “And that means communicating in such a way that the message is received about our accomplishments and what we care about.”
“I have a great sense of duty and responsibility to do as much as I can, to be where the people are, and to not only speak with them but listen to them and let them know what we’ve accomplished,” she added.
Following news that Harris intended to interact with TikTok influencers and cover for them while on the campaign trail, CNN revealed that Harris has had trouble communicating and crafting messages.
This is a politician, after all, whose staff changed a scheduled speech to the most ardent party members at the Democratic National Committee meeting last month in St. Louis to a “fireside chat” moderated by her outside adviser and former DNC chair Donna Brazile out of concern that she would find it difficult to connect with the audience otherwise, according to the report, which cited people involved in the decision.
CNN also asked Harris why younger people should “see themselves in a president who is old enough to be older than many of their grandparents.”
“It is they,” Harris said, “who are going to either benefit from or pay the price.”
Earlier this month, Harris admitted that she and Biden “have a lot of work to do” to win re-election, but said she is “confident” about the 2024 presidential election.
Harris made the remarks outside the White House after Democrats performed well in races across the country, while the president and vice president were polling poorly.
“It was a good night. And the president and I obviously have a lot of work to do to earn our re-election. But I am confident we’re going to win,” she said.
During an interview on “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Harris guaranteed Biden’s re-election after being asked why the president was neck and neck with former President Donald Trump.
CBS’ Bill Whitaker questioned the vice president about why she and Biden were polling so close to Trump despite the former president’s ongoing legal problems.
“The Biden-Harris ticket is running neck and neck with Donald Trump. Why are you not 30 points ahead?” Whitaker asked.
Harris stated that she is not a political pundit, but that the choice will be clear when Americans vote on Election Day next year.
“Bill, we’re going to win. Let me just tell you that. We’re going to win. I’m aware and I’m not saying it’s going to be easy. But we will win,” she said.
“You say that with such conviction,” Whitaker responded.
“I have no doubt, but I also have no doubt it’s going to be a lot of work. And everyone’s going to have to participate. This is a democracy,” she continued. “I look at it more as let’s keep getting out there. And, as with any election, we got to make our case to the American people. That’s part of our responsibility. And that’s this process. And that’s what it is. And that’s a fair process.”
“If you poll how young people feel about the climate and the warming of our planet, it polls as one of their top concerns. When we talk about what we are doing with student loan debt, polls very high. The challenge that we have as an administration is we got to let people know who brung it to them. That’s our challenge. But it is not that the work we are doing is not very, very popular with a lot of people,” she said.
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