As Democrats panicked following Biden’s “nightmare” performance in Thursday’s presidential debate, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton endorsed Biden’s candidacy.
“I’m voting for Biden,” she said. I wrote in a post on Friday morning On social platform X.
The post, which linked to the Biden-Harris campaign website, attacked former President Trump in an attempt to boost the current president’s candidacy.
“This is a choice between someone who cares about you — your rights, your prospects, your future — and someone who is only thinking about themselves,” she argued.
In a New York Times op-ed ahead of the debate, Clinton advised Biden that it was a “waste of time” to counter Trump’s claims. In the piece published on Tuesday, Clinton similarly attacked the former president’s record and made the case for Biden’s reelection.
“This election is between a convicted felon out for revenge and a president who gets results for the American people,” she added. “No matter what happens in the debates, it’s an easy choice.”
Vice President Harris, who represented Biden on CNN after the debate, struck a similar tone, urging Americans not to let the 90-minute debate define Biden’s presidency.
“We all know we’ve had a slow start. We’re not going to debate that. We’re talking about choices in November,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“Look what happens in November, do we want to elect a man who has said he will be a dictator from day one in office, who is going to take America down a path that will be destructive to our democracy?” she added.
While Clinton and Harris have endorsed the president as the presumptive Democratic nominee, some Democratic activists have begun searching for an alternative to Biden.
Speaking to the media after the debate, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) named Harris and California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) as her top candidates.
“These two people are leaving a lot of Americans who are paying attention asking, ‘Why aren’t they the top candidates?'” she told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in a post-debate interview.
The Democratic National Convention will be held in late August, when the party will formally select its presidential candidate.
