President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris subsequent week will make their first journey collectively since Biden ended his candidacy and Harris took over because the Democratic standard-bearer.
The White Home introduced Friday morning that Biden and Harris will head to Maryland on Aug. 15 for an official, non-campaign occasion to “discuss the progress they are making to lower costs for the American people.” They didn’t disclose the situation or extra specifics.
Biden and Harris have appeared briefly collectively since the president ended his reelection bid on July 21, together with an tour to Joint Base Andrews final week to welcome house U.S. residents who had been wrongfully detained in Russia. In addition they participated in a State of affairs Room assembly collectively earlier this week to debate the scenario within the Center East and had lunch collectively final week.
Taking extra steps to decrease prices is one space Biden needs to concentrate on within the last months of his presidency. In repeated calls with White Home chief of workers Jeff Zients shortly after ending his reelection marketing campaign, Biden pressured that he needed to proceed work on decreasing well being care and housing prices and implementing his landmark payments such because the infrastructure regulation, whereas highlighting the significance of defending U.S. democracy.
Executing his day job stays Biden’s chief precedence, aides and advisers have mentioned.
“His intention is to focus on the American people, to … continuing to deliver and build on the unprecedented successes — historic, historic successes — that he has had in the last three and a half years with the vice president,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned earlier this week. “That’s his focus.”
However his political aides are sketching out how the outgoing president might be useful on the marketing campaign path for Harris. There will probably be a joint political occasion with Biden and Harris, though the timing, location or different particulars have but to be decided, in line with an adviser for the president. Biden additionally plans to headline fundraisers for Harris and her working mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, mentioned the adviser, who was granted anonymity to debate the president’s plans that aren’t but public.
Biden additionally needs to do no matter else is useful — could or not it’s calls to allies or assembly with key teams — to make sure that the coalition of voters who turned out for him in 2020 will achieve this once more with Harris on the high of the ticket this fall, the adviser mentioned. Earlier than he dropped out of the race, Biden’s marketing campaign had largely narrowed its focus to retaining the so-called “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and that area could also be the place he could be the largest asset politically on behalf of Harris.
