SAN FRANCISCO — Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during a fundraiser that world leaders had confided to her they hope she and President Joe Biden win next year’s election.
“The first thing, I’m not kidding you, that each one of them said — the first thing they said: ‘We hope you’re going to win,'” Harris told donors Thursday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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“But out of self interest” she added. “Out of self-interest, because of what they know the future of our country means and represents for the future of their countries.”
In the home of Quinn Delaney and Wade Jordan in Piedmont, California, Harris told the crowd counterparts had approached her as recently as this month when she was in the United Kingdom for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s Global Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit.
“We walk in those rooms chin up, shoulders back, with the self-appointed and earned authority to talk about the importance of democracy, rule of law,” she said. “People around the world are watching what is happening in our country right now.”
Like Biden, Harris dismissed the importance of polling that indicates next year’s election will be close, particularly if it is a 2020 rematch against former President Donald Trump. But she did concede the campaign will be “hard,” underscoring the need for her and the incumbent president “to make our case” and “earn the reelect,” citing lower drug prices, higher speed internet, and fewer lead pipes.
“We have a lot of good material. Our challenge will just be to remind people who brung it to them,” Harris said. “When people want to talk about the polls, on and on about the polls, let me tell you, everything we have accomplished is highly, highly popular with the American people.”
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“We just got to remind them who did it,” she continued. “And we all did it. And that’s what we are going to do over the next 11 months. And we are going to win.”
During her remarks, Harris also recognized Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who is running in California’s hotly contested Senate race to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the chamber. She called her a “dear friend, and an extraordinary leader, and a courageous leader, and in so many ways, for so many of us, a conscience of our country.”
