- Sen. Raphael Warnock of the United States, who has only been in electoral politics for four years, has won many elections, sparking rumors that, should Vice President Kamala Harris win the Democratic nomination, he would be her running mate. Following his social media announcement that he was quitting the race for reelection, President Joe Biden backed Harris to challenge three-time GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in November. After Biden’s declaration, Warnock and another Democrat and senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff, both backed Harris. In a statement, Warnock backed Harris and declared himself “proud to endorse her candidacy to be the next President of the United States.”
- Harris still has to secure her party’s White House candidacy. The Democratic convention is scheduled for Chicago from August 19 to 22. Talk about her potential running companion started right away. In the 2020 election, Warnock faced off against U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who had been chosen by Governor Brian Kemp to complete the unfinished Senate term of the late Johnny Isakson. Former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, as well as U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, all endorsed him. Stacey Abrams, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor, was also an endorser.
- Following a November election in which neither candidate received a majority, a runoff was held in which Warnock beat Loeffler to become the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia or any other deep South state. Warnock campaigned for his first full six-year Senate term in 2022. Once more, in November, neither Warnock nor his Republican opponent, former Georgia football player Herschel Walker, secured a clear majority. This resulted in a rematch, which Warnock won. On Monday, Warnock will visit Savannah to take a tour of Savannah Technical College and the Gulfstream Savannah headquarters.
- Other potential candidates for the vice presidency
- Governors Andy Beashear of Kentucky
- Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan,
- J.B. Pritzer of Illinois,
- Roy Cooper of North Carolina,
- Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania,
- U.S. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, and
- Gavin Newsom of California
- To build on a plan for when he pulled out, Biden spent Saturday night with his immediate staff, which included veteran advisor Mike Donilon. Before sharing his message on social media at 1:46 p.m. on Sunday, Biden reportedly decided to withdraw his reelection attempt on Saturday night and called Harris, his chief of staff and campaign chair.
- Biden is the first president to withdraw from the race for reelection since Lyndon B. Johnson did so in 1968. He is also the first in American history to do so after winning almost all of his party’s primaries. In the 2020 presidential contest, Biden made history by being the first Democrat to win Georgia, or any other deep Southern state, since Bill Clinton in 1992.
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Fox Carolina News