"And a voter for an aspiring dictator backed by the world’s greediest fascists and oligarchs and enabled by a stolen and broken Republican Supreme Court is a vote for your vote never to matter again."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/2

"Biden’s announcement turns a time of discord and distress for the Democratic Party into a time of opportunity and purpose. Democrats should seize the moment and rally behind the Vice President as our nominee and not wait until the formal nomination at the convention almost a month away."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/3

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-up-to-us-now

It's up to us now

President Joe Biden today announced that he intends to “stand down” as the Democratic Party candidate for president.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

"It’s too much time to waste, when the party needs to unify now and get on with the urgent business of running Donald Trump and his gaggle of discontents and fellow criminals into the river.

Joe Biden has taken the step so many have urged on him. We should thank him and unite, move forward, fight as a team and beat Trump."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/4

"I will put on my boots and go to work day one. I will knock doors in rural spaces for a woman running to extend democracy for at least four more years. A qualified and vetted woman who will keep us on track.

We have to beat Trump, but after that, we need a reckoning in the party."

~ Jess Piper

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/5

https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/pov-a-rural-democrat-on-bidens-announcement

POV: A Rural Democrat on Biden's Announcement

I wrote a long piece on gardening and religion this morning and published it right before Joe’s news…bad timing. I won’t keep you long here except to say, as a rural Democratic activist, I’m pissed, but I’m in it to win it.

^{Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)}

"Even if she takes the nomination by acclamation, we will know much more about the prospects of an institutional defense against Trump by whether the media that once pushed Biden from the race now finds reason to dislike Harris, or to suggest she is an unworthy of a position she has spent the last four years preparing for."

~ Don Moynihan

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #media
/6

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/biden-out-why-it-should-be-harris

Biden Out: Why It Should Be Harris

Five quick takes

^{Don Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)}

"Democrats should lean on and reward Black leaders who have been the most loyal and staunch supporters of the Biden-Harris ticket. The Congressional Black Caucus, minus one individual, stayed united and steadfast in promoting the Biden-Harris ticket, and now they’re fully behind Harris. Black voters, especially Black women, are the strongest base of the Democratic Party."

~ Wajahat Ali

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #BlackVoters
/7

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/biden-harris-and-the-test-for-american

Biden, Harris, and the Test for American Democracy: Will We Rise to Meet the Opportunity?

Will America embrace the best version of itself and move beyond racism and misogyny? Or will this country succumb to white supremacy and self-destruction? Let's unite and fight for democracy.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"Speaking of Black women, Kamala Harris should be fully unleashed now as President Biden finishes his term. She is the best one to prosecute the case against Trump and MAGA’s extremist Project 2025 agenda. Biden can govern but he can’t articulate the case in public as well as Harris, so let her do it, especially when it comes to GOP’s kryptonite: abortion and women’s rights. Trump and the GOP can’t run away from their misogyny and cruelty."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #BlackVoters #women
/8

"Biden’s decision has given the Democratic Party a window of narrative dominance. It’s the biggest story in politics, and most Americans will come to understand its significance on Democratic terms—that Biden did something fundamentally patriotic, when he realized his campaign, under his direction as an 81 year old man, had created an intolerable risk of allowing Donald Trump to become president again."

~ Brian Beutler

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/9

https://www.offmessage.net/p/joe-biden-has-given-america-a-fighting-chance

Joe Biden Has Given America A Fighting Chance

That fight, against spooked and dissembling Republicans, needs to begin now

^{Brian Beutler (Off Message)}

"I urge all of you to take the president’s lead and stand with Kamala Harris in the battle against Trump. President Biden has sacrificed for his country and we should honor his decision by looking forward to the race ahead and working for the Democrats’ success."

~ Steven Beschloss

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/10

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/for-the-good-of-the-country

For the Good of the Country

President Joe Biden makes the difficult decision to withdraw from the race

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"For three and a half years, she has been the person the national-security apparatus would turn to if anything happened to the president. She’s become stronger and stronger as a public figure. The party doesn’t have the luxury of wasting time figuring out who else can gain support. For the party it’s time to mobilize behind her…."

~ James Fallows

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/11

https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-107-days-to-go

Election Countdown, 107 Days to Go: Joe Biden Passes the Torch

A sitting president changes everything about the race. We'll remember where we were, when we heard this news.

^{James Fallows (Breaking the News)}

"The endorsements have continued to roll in since Biden led the way, with President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Representative James Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat who launched Joe Biden’s successful run in 2020, following suit."

~ Joyce Vance

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/12

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-fc5

The Week Ahead

July 20, 2024

^{Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)}

"And as one of my friends pointed out, this means that so many of Trump’s 'arguments' are gone in one fell swoop: President Biden’s age, Hunter Biden, the whole 'Biden crime family' corruption allegations. All out the door.

This is the poetic justice the country has been looking for and richly deserves: A highly qualified, talented Black woman, a former prosecutor, will be the one to take down Donald Trump."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/13

"Nothing says women refuse to accept second-class citizenship like electing one. I have no doubt she can do it, and I look forward to watching the support she receives from Hillary Clinton, her sorors, and pretty much everyone in America who loves democracy. We have work to do!"

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/14

"Donald Trump and Chris LaCivita are about to hit Kamala Harris with an avalanche of racist and sexist attacks and a ton of slut-shaming. Democrats across the board need to be saying now what we all know, which is that this will bring out the very worst of Trump. Racism and sexism are his brand. Charlottesville is his brand."

~ Josh Marshall

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/15

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-small-matter-of-the-politics

A Small Matter of the Politics

This isn’t what I want to be discussing right now. But it’s...

^TPM

"You can’t just be on the receiving end of this stuff. Trump is about to show the kind of gutter white nationalist and racist pol he is. Force the press and all observers to see this totally predictable move through that prism.

Trump is losing the campaign he wanted to run, the one he and his campaign have spent years planning to run. ...

But Trump the racist bully and gangster is what kills him in the suburbs. It’s what embarrasses people."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/16

"The last month has been nonstop agony for Democrats. As time went on it wasn’t even one kind of agony. But each day new and different kinds of agony. Even people I know who were deeply against this happening now seem relieved to move past this period of paralysis. Once President Biden endorsed Harris all those agonized feelings rushed forward into a sense of relief and for many excitement."

~ Josh Marshall

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/17

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-end-of-thunderdome

The End of Thunderdoming?

Less than a half hour after President Biden announced on Twitter he...

^TPM

"President Joe Biden has chosen to put his country over his own ego, a heroic decision that shows the difference between a political party and a cult of personality. ...

Now that Biden is stepping down, perhaps all the false equivalency can end. Biden is a good man, and he’s been a good and consequential president with a first-term record most of his predecessors would envy."

~ Tom Nichols

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/18

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/07/a-candidate-not-a-cult-leader/679182/

A Candidate, Not a Cult Leader

After Biden’s decision to leave the race, the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans could not be clearer.

^{Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)}

"Biden’s decision is now also a challenge to every voter in the pro-democracy coalition to live by their words. For two years, many Americans lamented the choice between the aging Biden and the dissolute, unbalanced Trump. Their wish has been granted: They will now likely have a choice between a shouty, 78-year-old habitual liar whose life is a record of shame and failure"

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/19

"and a 59-year-old woman who has served honorably as a big-state attorney general, a senator, and the vice president of the United States."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/20

Biden’s decision has left the Republicans in deep trouble, and they are illustrating their dilemma with high-pitched anger that the ticket of their opponents has changed and by insisting that if Biden is not fit for another four-year term he must resign the presidency immediately. ...

The Republicans’ anger reflects that fact that if Biden is off the ticket, they are in yet another pickle."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #Trump
/21

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-21-2024

July 21, 2024

“My Fellow Americans, “Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. “Today, America has the strongest economy in the world.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

" Just last week, the Republicans nominated Donald Trump, who is 78, for president. Having made age their central complaint about Biden, they are now faced with having nominated the oldest candidate in U.S. history, who repeatedly fell asleep at his own nominating convention as well as his criminal trial, who often fumbles words, and who cannot seem to keep a coherent train of thought."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #Trump
/22

"A president gets, at most, two lines above the fold on his Wikipedia page. That’s it. That’s how history judges them.

Here is Joe Biden’s legacy: He beat back America’s first authoritarian attempt. And when he realized that he could not do it a second time, he stepped away so someone else could.

This is enough to make him—already, today, on July 21, 2024—our greatest living president."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
/23

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-is-our-greatest-living

Joe Biden Is Our Greatest Living President

On the most unlikely great president in modern history.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

"The hard work ahead is for Harris and all who believe in democracy with her to take the offensive and push HARD against Trump and MAGA about Trump’s clear record of deceit, dishonesty, incompetence, corruption, and mental unfitness to be chief executive of the United States.

The issue has now shifted from Biden’s impairments due to aging to Trump’s unfitness because he is a corrupt, mentally unstable, sociopathic idiot."

~ Wendell Griffen

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/24

https://fierceprohetichope.blogspot.com/2024/07/joe-biden-has-given-democracy-fighting.html

JOE BIDEN HAS GIVEN DEMOCRACY A FIGHTING CHANCE AND KAMALA HARRIS IS READY TO WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, MAGA, FASCISM, AND TYRANNY

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas U.S. President Joe Biden made history and fired a shot that may change the world when h...

^{Wendell Griffen (Blogger)}

"Kamala Harris is, at this point, an ideal candidate.

She’s a prosecutor. Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

She’s a woman. Donald Trump’s hand-picked justices overturned Roe.

She’s the Vice President, so she can still run on the record of the incumbent administration. Donald Trump is the former President with a disastrous record, still in denial that he lost in 2020.

She exudes competence. He’s a bungling authoritarian."

~ Dave Karpf

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/25

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/a-campaign-reset

A Campaign Reset

Thank you, Mr. President.

^{Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)}