Kamala Harris avoids all mention of Biden campaign crisis as she tries to win over Black voters

Vice President Kamala Harris barely mentioned her own running mate on Saturday as she spoke to Black voters and talked about the 2024 race at the annual Essence Festival in New Orleans.

The nation’s first Black vice president has been seen by many Democrats as the obvious choice to pick up the mantle of the party’s 2024 nomination should Joe Biden step aside in the coming days — a proposition the president hasfirmly denied will take place.

But, on Saturday, she clearly appeared ready to take on that role regardless as she hammered former president Donald Trump and sought to lay out the stakes of the election.

She spoke for just under 30 minutes and only mentioned Biden directly one time, making no mention of the growing movement within her party for the preisident to bow out of the 2024 race.

Instead, she reserved the majority of her words for Trump, whom allies of the incumbent president argue the press has not held to the same standard — despite the seemingly endless coverage of his criminal trials, convictions, and various scandals.

“Sadly, the press has not been covering it as much as they should: SCOTUS told this individual convicted of 34 felonies he will be immune from the activity he told us he is prepared to engage in if he gets back into the White House,” Harris told attendees at the event.

Trump, she added, is “openly talking about his admiration of dictators and his intention to be a dictator on day one, who is openly talked about his intention to weaponize the DOJ.”

The vice president also went after a familiar bogeyman: the Supreme Court ruling in 2022 overturning Roe v Wade and ending federal protections for abortion rights.

Damn. VP Harris is on FIRE: “Sadly, the press has not been covering it as much