Party officials and campaign aides raced to flip an entire brand from a dead stop -- from fading hope to salute emojis.
Vice President Kamala Harris during an event with NCAA college athletes at the White House on July 22, a day after President Joe Biden endorsed her to be the next presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. The boss had earned that much. Vice President Harris approved no discussions. Campaign advisers did not break ranks in public.
“I had people call me and say, ‘Is the vice president ready?’ I said, ‘No, she wants Joe Biden. She is sticking with Joe Biden,’” Brazile remembered. “There is a real need to unify. Time is not on our side. We can’t have internal conversations over a month that focuses us inward,” Martin said. “There was nobody that objected on that executive committee call.”Biden bowed out of the race at 1:46 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, July 21, sending Harris’s advisers scrambling to the vice president’s residence, where she wore a Howard University sweatshirt while placing more than 100 calls over the first ten hours.
“If she’d had to raise money starting from zero, hire her first staff, open her first office and do all of that right out of the gate, I don’t know that she would have had time to execute. What we saw was the exact inverse of that,” said Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. “She inherited everything that had already been built and then expanded it at an extremely rapid rate.”Biden decided on a Saturday night, but slept on the decision.
They gave Biden some time alone in the world, but not much. Twenty-seven minutes after that, Biden endorsed Harris on the same account. The campaign high command had not seriously entertained any other option, said several people familiar with the conversations. One hundred miles away, Harris was hitting the phones, as her team began polishing her remarks for the following day. Harris political advisers Megan Jones and Erin Wilson had a list of delegation leaders who could trigger phone trees in each of the states. After Biden’s endorsement, Harris aides called Jones from the residence to give the green light to start calling. “Tell the boss, we’ve got this,” Jones responded.
Never mind that the lawyers had not yet filed the name change with the Federal Election Commission. The team waited for the paperwork before blitzing out more emails, text messages and the other pieces of what became a $122 million windfall in just over 48 hours. Before midnight, there were new scripts for voter contact. By Monday morning, there were new fliers for the door knockers. The signs were ready Tuesday when Harris showed up in Wisconsin for the biggest Democratic campaign event since the 2020 nomination fight. The ad of those cheering crowds was ready days later.“At the end of the day, for all my days, I will be so proud of what these guys did. They did it because they believed in the boss.
Win With Black Men went live later that day, roughly matching the fundraising and participation. A call for White women organized by the head of the gun regulation group, Moms Demand Action, featured the singer Pink and the actress Connie Britton and soon attracted 160,000 people on a Zoom call. The “White Dudes For Harris” Zoom came next.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
'Kamala IS brat': How Kamala Harris' campaign is embracing the memesHarris memes related to Charli XCX's 'Brat' have taken over social media.
Read more »
'Kamala IS brat': How Kamala Harris' campaign is embracing the memesHarris memes related to Charli XCX's 'Brat' have taken over social media.
Read more »
'Kamala IS brat': How Kamala Harris' campaign is embracing the memesHarris memes related to Charli XCX's 'Brat' have taken over social media.
Read more »
'Kamala IS brat': How Kamala Harris' campaign is embracing the memesHarris memes related to Charli XCX's 'Brat' have taken over social media.
Read more »
'Kamala IS brat': How Kamala Harris' campaign is embracing the memesHarris memes related to Charli XCX's 'Brat' have taken over social media.
Read more »
Kamala Harris Gets Most Important Endorsement of All From Charli XCX: ‘Kamala IS brat’Kamala Harris got an endorsement from Charli XCX after Pres. Joe Biden endorsed his VP following his exit from the race: 'Kamala IS brat.'
Read more »