Karine Jean-Pierre Asked For Biden’s Reaction To ‘Strong Initial Enthusiasm’ For Harris’s 2024 Bid

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During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden’s thoughts on the support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

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00:00Oh, no.

00:01No, Joey.

00:02Joey.

00:03You've never called me Michael before.

00:04I know.

00:05I know.

00:06It's been, I know.

00:07It's been a while.

00:08It's been a while.

00:09It's all right.

00:10It's all right.

00:11Hey, what's President Biden's reaction been so far on the strong initial enthusiasm that

00:15Democratic voters are showing for Kamala Harris's candidacy?

00:18She had a rally in Atlanta last night with over 10,000 people, raised more than $200

00:23million a week, has improved on polling in battleground states from where Biden was.

00:28Does the president feel reassured about his decision to drop out of the election by what

00:33he's seen so far from Harris?

00:36I'm going to ask you, wouldn't you, what would you, wouldn't you be reassured?

00:39No, but you just listed out what's occurred the past week.

00:44I don't even know.

00:45Everything is just coming all together.

00:48Past week or so, again, campaign don't want to get into specifics of numbers that you

00:52just ticked off and what we've seen.

00:55But I mean, look, you just listed off some pretty incredible moments that we've seen

01:02with her campaign over the last week or so.

01:05And so, look, I think at the end of the day, what I can say, and I've said this before

01:11and I'll repeat it, is the president is incredibly proud of the vice president, Vice President

01:16Kamala Harris.

01:17And he has said, he has said that the reason why he chose her, the reason why he picked

01:21her to be his vice president back in 2020, almost, gosh, almost four years ago, is because

01:27he believed she could lead on day one.

01:29And that we have to remember who the vice president is.

01:32She's been vice president for almost three and a half years.

01:34She's helped be a partner in really big decisions that we've had to make here, whether it's

01:39domestic or foreign policy.

01:41She was a senator.

01:42She was an attorney general.

01:43She is incredibly qualified.

01:46And he could not think of anybody else who could have done this job, that he could have

01:51made this decision, and to take over the campaign, obviously.

01:57And so he's very proud of her.

01:59And I will just leave it there.

02:00And so he does feel reassured by that decision?

02:02I mean, he's proud of his decision.

02:04He's proud of his decision.

02:06And you've just listed out a long list of reasons of why.

02:09Okay, Peter.

Karine Jean-Pierre Asked For Biden’s Reaction To ‘Strong Initial Enthusiasm’ For Harris’s 2024 Bid

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