Biden calls Kamala Harris a potential ‘president’ candidate for United States

United States President Joe Biden made a big statement on Tuesday (July 16) when he hinted that Vice President Kamala Harris “could be president of the United States”.

The president was speaking at the annual convention of the NAACP when he made the remark in the wake of fellow Democrats making efforts to convince him to step aside from the presidential election race. 

“She’s not only a great vice president, she could be president of the United States,” said the 81-year-old president, while speaking about the 59-year-old Harris, who he called the best candidate to replace him when he decides to retire. 

However, Biden did not indicate that he would step down as he informed the crowd that he had already sketched a plan for the first 100 days of a second term which included signing voting-rights legislation “come hell or high water.”

In his remarks, he also repeatedly attacked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and called on Americans to “lower the temperature” of the campaign in the Oval Office address on Sunday (July 14).

“Donald Trump’s presidency was hell for black America,” said Biden, at one point.

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Trump is “lying like hell” regarding black unemployment records, said the president as he ridiculed the focus of Trump on growing “black jobs.”

“I love this phrase, ‘black jobs’, tells us a lot about the man and about his character,” said Biden.

“Folks, I know what a black job is. It’s the vice president of the United States. I know what a black job is: the first black president in American history, Barack Obama,” he said.

Trump is “a guy who spread the birthism lie about Barack Obama, saying he wasn’t born in America and he wasn’t a US citizen,” the president added. 

Biden said that Republicans would “undo everything the NAACP stands for.”

(With inputs from agencies)