{"id":11094,"date":"2020-08-12T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2020-08-12T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:55:14","slug":"biden-and-harris-set-to-deliver-speech-together-as-democratic-ticket-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/12\/biden-and-harris-set-to-deliver-speech-together-as-democratic-ticket-in-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Harris set to deliver speech together as Democratic ticket in Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(CNN) <\/em>Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden <\/a>and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris<\/a>, are set to make their first appearance together Wednesday afternoon for a speech in Delaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speech comes the day after Biden chose Harris<\/a> after a months-long vice presidential vetting process, making her the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be tapped for a major political party’s ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their spouses, Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff, will also attend the speech in Wilmington, Jill Biden spokesperson Michael LaRosa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a tweet that could preview their message, Biden tweeted<\/a> Wednesday morning that if he and Harris win, “we’re going to inherit multiple crises, a nation divided, and a world in disarray. We won’t have a minute to waste.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That’s exactly why I picked her: She’s ready to lead on day one,” he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris on Wednesday tweeted a biographical video that started with Biden asking her to join the ticket and echoed Biden’s core message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are in a battle for the soul of this nation. But together, it’s a battle we can win,” Harris tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the speech, Biden and Harris are set to appear together at an online fundraiser for “grassroots” small-dollar donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether and how the two can hit the campaign trail, together or separately, remains to be seen. Next week’s Democratic National Convention would ordinarily kick off a frenetic two-and-a-half month sprint to the November 3 election, but the coronavirus pandemic has effectively sidelined Biden from campaigning. He spent July delivering weekly speeches detailing planks of his economic agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time Biden held a campaign rally — March 9 in Detroit, on the eve of the Michigan primary — Harris appeared with him on stage, as the 77-year-old former vice president called himself a “bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CNN) Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, are set to make their first appearance together Wednesday afternoon for a speech in Delaware. The speech comes the day after Biden chose Harris after a months-long vice presidential vetting process, making her the first Black woman and first person of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Biden-Kamala.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}