Barack and Michelle Obama endorsed Kamala Harris for president, providing another huge boost to the now-presumptive Democratic nominee.

The former president and first lady threw their weight behind the presumptive Democratic nominee

Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president, sharing the news in a joint phone call.

A video released by the campaign suggests the former president and first lady called Harris on Thursday while the vice president was in Houston, where she addressed the American Federation of Teachers and received a briefing on recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl.

“We called to say, Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” Barack Obama is heard telling Harris in a 55-second video of the call.

“This is going to be historic,” Michelle Obama tells Harris.

  • SteveEnglish
    513·
    1 month ago

    That’s not something we’ll ever “stop”. That’s an ongoing eternal fight. And you don’t win by only playing defense. You need to try to score also.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 month ago

      We will never stop a specific agenda that has been laid out in great detail in a plan Americans are souring to the more they hear about it?

      The sounds like what some people told me about Biden in 2020. Why vote for him? He’s the same as Trump.

      Except he isn’t. By most measures.

      • SteveEnglish
        16·
        1 month ago

        Who said that? Did I? I never said any of that. Read my previous comment again.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 month ago

          Your previous comment:

          That’s not something we’ll ever “stop”. That’s an ongoing eternal fight.

          My response:

          We will never stop a specific agenda that has been laid out in great detail in a plan Americans are souring to the more they hear about it?

          Then I told you a different claim that your comment sounded like.

          So yes, you did say that it is not something that we will never stop.

          • SteveEnglish
            15·
            1 month ago

            Did the agenda get stopped? Project 2025 exists. So the right wing religous agenda is ongoing, is it not?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              6·
              1 month ago

              What a strange question. The agenda didn’t get stopped because the election hasn’t happened yet. Which is why they need to be beaten first so it can be stopped.

              You do understand that it’s called “Project 2025” because they want to implement it in 2025, right?

              • SteveEnglish
                55·
                1 month ago

                Project 2025 exists because electing Biden didnt stop anything. P25 is simply the latest label for the same agenda that’s been going on since forever. That’s what never ends.

                The conservative religious right has waxed and waned for millennia. But it never stops.

                You’re missing the forest to the trees.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  7·
                  1 month ago

                  Okay, well then I guess we should give up. You’re right, don’t vote for Harris. She doesn’t pass the purity test. Let Trump win.

                  • SteveEnglish
                    15·
                    1 month ago

                    I never had a chance to vote for her. I was never offered any other options. That’s what my first comment was all about.