US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Kamala Harris will “cut her own path” if elected, as the Democratic nominee tries to convince voters she will bring change to the White House.
Vice President Harris came under fire from Republican rival Donald Trump last week after she responded that “nothing comes to mind” when asked what she would have done differently from Biden.
“Every president has to cut his own path. That’s what I did. I was loyal to Barack Obama but I cut my own path as president,” Biden said at a Democratic Party dinner in Philadelphia.
“That’s what Kamala is going to do. She has been loyal so far but she will cut her own path.”
Biden said: “Kamala’s perspective on our problems will be fresh and new. Donald Trump’s approach is old and failed and frankly completely dishonest.”
Biden was the Vice President while Obama was in the White House from 2009 to 2017.
Biden’s comments in the key swing state of Pennsylvania were an apparent effort to support Harris, who replaced Biden, 81, as the party’s standard-bearer in July.
Harris has faced a balance between presenting herself as a “candidate of change” but without rejecting the policies of the administration she has been a part of for four years.
A New York Times/Siena poll a week earlier found that voters were slightly more likely to see him, rather than Trump, as a break from the status quo.
But Trump and his Republican allies attacked Harris’ comments made in an interview with a daytime TV show last week.
When Harris was asked how she would have done things differently from Biden, she said, “There’s nothing that comes to mind… and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had an impact.”
Meanwhile, the outgoing president launched a powerful attack on Trump in a speech to local Democrats in Philadelphia.
Biden mocked Trump at a town hall that turned into a bizarre musical session on Monday, saying, “‘He stood on the stage and danced around for 30 minutes. I’m serious. What’s wrong with this guy?’
Biden also attacked Trump for describing immigrants as “monsters.”
He said, “Trump hides all his racism, now it’s all out in the open. His views on race are like the 1930s. Trump’s views on the economy are like the ’20s. Trump’s views on women are like the ’50s.” Are from.”
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