Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Dallas on Wednesday, touting the Biden administration’s accomplishments as panic among national Democrats continued to set in over their presidential ticket coming apart at the seams. She delivered her speech to about 20,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a historically Black sorority of which she is an alumna, at their annual convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Clad in the sorority’s trademark pink, Harris sought to shore up the president’s support among Black Americans, a critical demographic in the upcoming elections.
The vice president did not, however, address the elephant in the room: the breathless national debate about whether President Joe Biden should step aside as the party’s nominee, opening the possibility for her to run in his place. She also did not answer press questions about whether Biden should step aside after the event. Many Democrats, including U.
S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, are openly warning that Biden will lose the election and hurt Democrats in key down-ballot races, including the Senate election in Texas.
Biden is also heading to Texas soon, speaking at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Harris, who was an AKA member as a college student at Howard University, kicked off her keynote speech in Dallas on Tuesday by acknowledging Hurricane Beryl, which pummeled Southeast Texas and has left millio.