Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, praised President Joe Biden for his “selfless decision” to step aside and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president in the 2024 election.
“He made the decision to endorse Vice President Harris who is the only person that tens of millions of people have already voted for as vice president,” the congresswoman said.
The Washington Democrat added, “The president is — has done so much for our country. We owe him a deep debt of gratitude.”
Jayapal called Harris “remarkably accomplished” and that Biden helped with sending out the “marching orders” in support of her. She also warned that Harris would get hit with a lot of “misogynist, sexist, and racist attacks.”
Jayapal had a conversation with Harris on Sunday and shared that the vice president is “ready.”
“Well, she’s ready. She’s ready. She’s ready to win this for us in November. She’s serious. She knows it’s a big fight before us,” she said. “She knows that she has to work to put together the coalition that Joe Biden put together in 2020 to win. We need every voter, you know? We need the Nikki Haley voters, but let me be clear. We need progressive voters. We need our base. We need black folks. We need brown folks. We need young people. We need our entire progressive coalition.”
The progressive congresswoman was asked about the Republicans pushing for Biden to step down as president and ripped the effort.
“It is so ridiculous,” Jayapal said. “They should be calling on their nominee, a convicted felon, a rambling, incoherent guy who wants to be a dictator on day one. They should call on him to step down, and every pundit hounding us, they should be hounding every Republican to call on Donald Trump to step down as their nominee.”
Jayapal was also asked who she believed should run with Harris on the Democratic ticket.
“I think she needs to have somebody who can appeal to, you know, a wide swath of people as she does, and so I think that’s going to be important,” she said.
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She explained that the vice president pick for Harris would need to help with positioning her as way to appeal to the “working class agenda.”
“I do think the working class agenda is really important,” she said, adding, “Joe Biden put that agenda together in 2020. He’s been fighting for it. We need to make sure that we are appealing to folks across this country who want to make sure that they just have one job, right? Not two and three jobs to take care of their families.”
