Vice President Kamala Harris will take a lead role in the Biden campaign’s push to draw attention to GOP divisions during the Republican National Convention, including working to court women voters with a focus on national security and reproductive rights.
Biden has insisted he plans to remain in the race, but he said this week that Harris was qualified to serve as president and praised her work, especially on women’s health issues. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Harris, in turn, rallied voters behind Biden, calling him a fighter. “He is the first to say when you get knocked down, you get right back up,” she said, adding that a second Trump term would bring about a “full-on assault on reproductive freedom.