President Joe Biden predicted the Democrats will maintain Vice President Kamala Harris as a significant occasion participant regardless of her blowout election loss whereas thanking marketing campaign donors on Sunday.
“You’re not going wherever, child. We aren’t letting you,” Biden stated to Harris throughout his remarks on the Democratic Nationwide Committee vacation reception.
The pair had been joined by their spouses on the reception, the place they sought to stoke the egos of key donors — encouraging them not to surrender hope following the election washout — whereas piecing collectively the stays of Biden’s sundowning presidency.
Republicans clinched Election Day throughout the board, gaining the bulk within the Home and Senate on prime of Donald Trump’s White Home victory.
The sweeping loss has led to a reckoning throughout the occasion as Democrats look to the place they went unsuitable and what — or who — wants to alter to enchantment to the American individuals.
“All of us get knocked down. My dad would say while you get knocked down, you simply obtained to stand up. The measure of an individual or a celebration is how briskly they get again up,” Biden informed donors on the vacation occasion.
Donors from each events spent a mind-blowing $4.7 billion in the course of the 2024 election cycle — with a majority going to Harris’ marketing campaign throughout her speedrun to the Democratic nominee within the closing months of the race.
Democrats, bolstered by their allied tremendous PACs and different partisan teams, raised $2.9 billion, together with $700 million over simply 700 Democrat-organized occasions, Harris stated.
“You rallied, you opened your houses, you reached out to your pals and your loved ones,” Harris stated Sunday.
“You place your private capital — and by that I imply your relationships — at stake to speak with individuals since you care so deeply, and also you related with individuals and took the time to remind them of what’s at stake and what was at stake.”
Whereas Biden acknowledged the lasting burn many Democrats nonetheless really feel following Trump’s victory, he stated that they need to nonetheless be happy with what they had been capable of accomplish.
“We might by no means have gotten as a lot executed as we did with out you,” Biden stated.
“You not solely contributed to the marketing campaign, however you probably did one thing, I believe, much more necessary. You had been prepared to lend your names, your repute, your character to the trouble.”
With Publish wires.
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