Biden speaks to campaign staff as he passes the torch to Kamala: ‘We’re still fighting in this fight together’

In his first remarks since he ended his presidential campaign, President Joe Biden spoke remotely to campaign staff and supporters as Kamala Harris joined headquarters in Delaware to launch her bid for the Democratic nomination.

“I know yesterday's news was surprising and, it was hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing,” said Biden, who had announced that he was ending his re-election campaign and throwing his support behind Harris in the race against Donald Trump.

“The name is changed on top of the ticket, but the mission hasn’t changed at all,” he told supporters in Wilmington on Monday. “And by the way, I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to be out there to campaign with her, with Kamala. I’m going to be working like hell.”

Biden, who has been isolating after being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, promised to be “fully engaged” with Harris’s campaign as he finishes out the next six months of his administration.

In her first stump speech as the likely Democratic nominee, Harris hailed Biden’s legacy in office, promised to unite the Democratic Party around her campaign, and took aim at her Republican rival, framing Trump as a career criminal up against her career as a top law enforcement official in California.

As a former prosecutor, she “took on perpetrators of all kinds,” including “predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said.

“So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” she added.

Harris declared her support for restoring constitutional rights to abortion care, combatting the proliferation of high-powered firearms, reviving the Voting Rights Act, and dismantling the Project 2025 framework bolstering Trump’s campaign —