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As more Democratic members of Congress are urging President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, his vice president held a fundraiser Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts.Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on Cape Cod just after 1 p.m. Saturday and was greeted by Democratic Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Reps. Katherine Clark and Bill Keating.The event was hosted by prominent Massachusetts-based planner Bryan Rafanelli and expected to draw more than 800 attendees.U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Sen. Ed Markey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu were among those expected to attend.The event was expected to include celebrities Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter and Darren Criss. Broadway actress Adrienne Warren was expected to perform.”So many people talking about Kamala Harris taking over the top spot. This has become a very important and popular event,” Democratic political analyst Mary Anne Marsh said.The event was expected to raise $2 million, cash that was critical to the Democratic ticket as more donors and top party leaders question the path forward for Biden.Marsh expects Biden to drop out of the race next week, saying Harris is the political and practical pick to headline the ticket. Marsh said Harris would get the money raised at campaign fundraisers like Saturday’s on the Cape.Biden was forced off the campaign trail on Wednesday after he tested positive for COVID-19. The president was in Las Vegas when he got the news. He flew to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and has been recovering there.Biden’s campaign said he is ready to return to the campaign trail next week, even as a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers call for him to step aside.U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, called for Biden to “pass the torch” to Harris on Saturday.Takano was among a number of high-ranking Democrats to privately express concern for Biden’s reelection bid in a private call with leadership earlier this month.Marsh said a Harris pick would allow for a seamless campaign transition. “She certainly, being part of that entity, could receive transfers of the funds, of the resources, of the campaign headquarters, of all the workers, everything,” Marsh said. “That would be an advantage, given the fact that there are only 109 days left in this election.”On Saturday, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that if Biden opts to bow out of the race, Harris is “ready to step up.””What gives me a lot of hope right now is that, if President Biden decides to step back, we have Vice President Kamala Harris who is ready to step up,” Warren told MSNBC on Saturday “to unite the party, to take on Donald Trump and to win in November.”Warren, who competed with Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, said that the president “has a really big decision to make” about whether he wants to leave the race.
As more Democratic members of Congress are urging President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, his vice president held a fundraiser Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on Cape Cod just after 1 p.m. Saturday and was greeted by Democratic Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Reps. Katherine Clark and Bill Keating.
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The event was hosted by prominent Massachusetts-based planner Bryan Rafanelli and expected to draw more than 800 attendees.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Sen. Ed Markey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu were among those expected to attend.
The event was expected to include celebrities Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter and Darren Criss. Broadway actress Adrienne Warren was expected to perform.
“So many people talking about Kamala Harris taking over the top spot. This has become a very important and popular event,” Democratic political analyst Mary Anne Marsh said.
The event was expected to raise $2 million, cash that was critical to the Democratic ticket as more donors and top party leaders question the path forward for Biden.
Marsh expects Biden to drop out of the race next week, saying Harris is the political and practical pick to headline the ticket. Marsh said Harris would get the money raised at campaign fundraisers like Saturday’s on the Cape.
Biden was forced off the campaign trail on Wednesday after he tested positive for COVID-19. The president was in Las Vegas when he got the news. He flew to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and has been recovering there.
Biden’s campaign said he is ready to return to the campaign trail next week, even as a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers call for him to step aside.
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, called for Biden to “pass the torch” to Harris on Saturday.
Takano was among a number of high-ranking Democrats to privately express concern for Biden’s reelection bid in a private call with leadership earlier this month.
Marsh said a Harris pick would allow for a seamless campaign transition.
“She certainly, being part of that entity, could receive transfers of the funds, of the resources, of the campaign headquarters, of all the workers, everything,” Marsh said. “That would be an advantage, given the fact that there are only 109 days left in this election.”
On Saturday, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that if Biden opts to bow out of the race, Harris is “ready to step up.”
“What gives me a lot of hope right now is that, if President Biden decides to step back, we have Vice President Kamala Harris who is ready to step up,” Warren told MSNBC on Saturday “to unite the party, to take on Donald Trump and to win in November.”
Warren, who competed with Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, said that the president “has a really big decision to make” about whether he wants to leave the race.
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