The former president and first lady threw their weight behind the presumptive Democratic nominee

Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president, sharing the news in a joint phone call.

A video released by the campaign suggests the former president and first lady called Harris on Thursday while the vice president was in Houston, where she addressed the American Federation of Teachers and received a briefing on recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl.

“We called to say, Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” Barack Obama is heard telling Harris in a 55-second video of the call.

“This is going to be historic,” Michelle Obama tells Harris.

  • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
    424·
    4 months ago

    I say that dictatorship part because don’t think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

    I’ve been saying this since Sunday. We just blew up the Death Star, but the Empire is still a threat. The fight ain’t over, yet.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
      301·
      4 months ago

      How did we blow up the Death Star? No victories have been achieved yet.

      This is more like Han hanging over the reigns of the Millenium Falcon to Lando in RotJ. The battle hasn’t even begun.

      • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        I disagree. Biden pulled a master political move that isn’t the Death Star blowing up, but it’s still a deft maneuver for the republic.

        Consider that Trump was shot at and just two weeks later we aren’t talking about it. The RNC happened and it’s not in the news. The only thing in the news is Trump dropped out to run away from Kamala. It’s an insanely smart political move. The republicans are so upset they’re filing impeachment papers, yelling about democracy, and threatening with the law. They’re so scared that they’re scrambling to do anything.

        And Trump being shot at didn’t get him anything in the polls. That’s how crazy this all is

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        4 months ago

        Yeah for real. While I am happy to see such excitement around Harris, this is far from over. Too many people celebrating prematurely. Remember 2016???

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            4 months ago

            That’s just not true. Maybe you weren’t, but this country is full of neo-libs.

            Also, maybe you forget, but Kamala ran in the 2020 primary. A LOT fewer people were excited about her than they were about Clinton. By orders of magnitude. You can literally measure it if you wanted.

            The current “excitement” is not due to the person, it’s due to the situation. The same fucking thing would be happening if Biden had chosen fucking Gabrielle Giffords (or literally anyone else under the age of 70 without an ‘R’ next to their name) way back then.

            He could have chosen three Colombia University pro-Palestine protestors stacked up under a trenchcoat, and people would be “excited” right now about them taking Biden’s place.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        The Death Star by that point had been blown up quite conclusively.

        This is not the battle. This is some senate noise 1-2 years PBY nobody is going to remember after.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 months ago

        So Joe Biden will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine?

        “You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will be instructed by Obama, the great President who instructed me.”

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        And then it’ll turn out that the new Republic and Jedi Order that were set up after the fall of the Empire were so ineffectual that they might as well not have bothered. Thanks, Disney.