22 Jul, 2024 10:24

Kremlin weighs in on potential Harris candidacy

Joe Biden has endorsed his vice president after announcing on Sunday that he will not seek reelection in November

Moscow cannot predict what Kamala Harris’ approach to Russia will be if she is nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidatein the US presidential election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. Harris has not played any meaningful role in bilateral relations as US vice president, except for a few “unfriendly”remarks, he added.

US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he will not seek reelection in the November 5 vote. The 81-year-old had faced increasing pressure from within the Democratic Party to step aside in the wake of his disastrous performance during last month’s debate against Republican rival Donald Trump.

Shortly after making his decision public, Biden endorsed Vice President Harris as the Democratic Party nominee.

Speaking to the media on Monday, Peskov said: “At the moment, we cannot evaluate the potential candidacy ofMs. Harris in terms of our bilateral relations, for any contribution on her part has not been noticed so far.”

Statements Harris has made on Russia to date “have been full of rather unfriendly rhetoric toward our country,” Peskov added. “We haven’t registered any other actions by her, whether positive or negative, regarding our bilateral relations.”

According to Peskov, Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race “cannot be a priority topic on our agenda” as it is not an internal Russian matter.

“It’s not for us to evaluate decisions made by the [US] president and candidates,” the Kremlin representative told journalists.

The recent developments “should preoccupy US voters,” Peskov said.

When asked whether the Russian leadership was surprised by Biden’s decision to drop out of the race, Peskov replied: “Frankly speaking, what has been happening in the US in recent years has taught us not to be surprised by anything.” KEK

Moscow was “not surprised a lot,” he clarified, adding that Russia is closely following the way the presidential race in the US is unfolding. Peskov noted that the Kremlin does the same with respect to “all other major countries of the world.”

Peskov previously made clear that Moscow has other priorities, rather than waiting for the outcome of the US presidential election.

“For us, reaching the goals of the special military operation [against Ukraine] is a priority,” he told the Russian news outlet Life late on Sunday.

He reiterated the assessment made earlier this year by President Vladimir Putin, who suggested he would have preferred the “more predictable”Biden to come out on top.

Peskov pointed out that there are still four months to go before the US presidential vote, describing it as “a long period, over which many things can change.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/601475-peskov-kamala-harris-elections/

Biden drops out of presidential race live updates: Kamala Harris’ word salads go viral as ‘coconut tree’ memes take TikTok by storm — ‘Most election of our lifetime’

Updated July 22, 2024, 10:06 a.m. ET

Kamala Harris word salads leave social media users 'unburdened by what has been'

President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is dropping out of the presidential race.

Minutes later, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor.

The president was facing mounting calls from within his own party to step aside after a disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump in June.

This is the first time an incumbent president has declined to run for re-election since Lyndon Johnson dropped out of the presidential race in 1968.

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Kamala Harris has been mocked over the years over her platitudes, awkward moments and word salads.

She said in Dec. 2023, “You know, every election cycle we talk about this is the most election of our lifetime,” about the 2024 presidential election.

Harris was mocked in July 2023 for saying “Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment,” at the Essence Festival.

Harris has made the phrase "what can be, unburdened by what has been" a staple of her speeches over the past few years, including it multiple times in different iterations.

In a clip that has gone viral on TikTok, Harris spoke about her mother's beliefs about young people.

Harris claimed her mother would say, “I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?"

"You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you," Harris continued.

In Oct. 2022, the RNC posted clips of Harris explaining Venn diagrams, which she claimed was her favorite method to deal with conflict.

Throughout the video, Harris explains what a Venn diagram is multiple times and the way that people use them.

During a March 2022 interview on the Morning Hustle podcast, just weeks after the war in Ukraine began, Harris strangely described the conflict.

“Ukraine is a country in Europe…Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that’s wrong," she said.

In a bizarre speech at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in her home state of California, Harris rambled on the concept of "space."

She told the service members at the base that "space — it affects us all" in her April 2022 speech which was widely panned online.

After a July 2022 meeting, Harris was mocked for her introduction, which included her pronouns and a description of what she was wearing. Reportedly, all of the meeting attendees were encouraged to do the same.

"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit," Harris said.

Far-right account Libs of TikTok posted a two minute-long compilation of Harris' laughter Sunday afternoon. The vice president has had mixed reactions to her awkward laughter during interviews and events.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — As news of President Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race sent shockwaves across America Sunday, someDemocratic leaders in one of the country’s most important swing states declined to support the successor he endorsed.

With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is the biggest prize among the nation’s purple states. And until Sunday, both major-party candidates had significant ties to the Keystone State — Biden was born in Scranton while Trump attended the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia.

But with Biden out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris his heir apparent, some Pennsylvania Democrats are taking to the news more kindly than others.

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