Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison was pressed on Tuesday by Democrats about whether President Biden was “threatened out of office” following his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
“Mr. President, we owe him a tremendous amount of gratitude. He’s a good man. He’s an honorable man. He’s been a transformative president. But what he’s shown by dropping out of this race is that he’s selfless,” Harrison told NBC’s “Today” co-host Craig Melvin.
Melvin continued: “But was he being bullied?”
“Craig, he assessed that this was what was best for not only the American people but also the Democratic Party,” Harrison added.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison was pressed on Tuesday about whether President Biden was “bullied” into dropping out of the race. (Screenshot/NBC/Today)
Democrats quickly rallied behind Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden announced Sunday that he was giving up reelection and supporting Harris’ nomination.
Harrison also spoke about the process at the Democratic National Convention and outlined his plans to nominate Harris.
“The process will be fair, transparent and open, but it will be done quickly. And we’ve designed it so that a candidate can actually accomplish the steps and requirements that are necessary to get on the ballot in all 50 states. And in Ohio, in order to get on that ballot, you have to have not only a presidential candidate but also a vice presidential candidate. So that decision will be up to the ultimate candidate. But we’ve designed this process so that the candidate has enough time to choose who they’re going to be,” Harrison said.
He stressed that Harris’ running mate must be decided by August 7th in order to meet Ohio’s voting deadline.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on June 28, 2024. (Bizayev Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Following Trump’s poor performance in a debate between him and former President Donald Trump in late June, Harrison told MSNBC that they still “support Biden” because the president has always supported them.
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“What I’ve seen is unity, especially in the black community,” he said. “I’m black, and I’ve seen the unity in support of Joe Biden. In the black community, in families, you can say whatever you want about a member of your family, but you can’t let anyone else do that.”
