Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris was notably absent from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Tuesday night as the party’s unofficial leaders took to the stage for their speeches.
Both Michelle and Barack Obama gave speeches at the DNC as they sought to rally Democrats behind the party’s selected ticket.
However, Harris and her radical communist running mate Tim Walz were nowhere to be seen, despite the speeches from the Obamas being the most anticipated events of the convention.
The snub from Harris and Walz is now further fueling rumors of a deep rift in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party.
Despite the trouble in paradise, Democrats put on a display of false unity for voters.
During his speech, Barack Obama praised Joe Biden just weeks after reportedly helping oust the Democrat president from his re-election effort.
“It’s been 16 years since I had the honor of accepting this party’s nomination for president,” Obama said on Tuesday evening from the DNC.
“And I know that’s hard to believe since I haven’t aged a bit, but it’s true.
“And looking back, I can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best.
“And that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president.
“Other than some common Irish blood, Joe and I come from different backgrounds.
“But we became brothers,” Obama claimed.
“And as we worked together for eight – sometimes, pretty tough – years, what I came to admire most about Joe wasn’t just his smarts and experience, but it was his empathy and his decency.
“And his hard-earned resiliency and his unshakable belief that everyone in this country deserves a fair shot.”
“History will remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger.
“And I am proud to call him my president, but even prouder to call him my friend,” Obama alleged.
Harris became the Democrat nominee for president upon Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
Biden was forced out by top Democrats after his disastrous June debate performance against President Donald Trump.
During the debate, Biden lost his train of thought, stumbled over his words, made incoherent and slurring statements, and appeared more subdued than during other public events in recent years.
The debate performance opened the floodgates to traditional Democrat allies and legacy media outlets joining conservatives in their concerns over Biden’s mental acuity and age.
After the White House and Biden campaign repeatedly denied the president would drop out of the race, Biden announced he would end his re-election bid in a social media post.
Ahead of Biden dropping out of the race, Obama allies notably helped lead the charge in calling for the president to get out of the race in favor of a candidate they believed was more suitable to take on Trump.
Last month, Obama’s former chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, said that Biden is “not winning this race.”
While actor and longtime friend of the Obamas, George Clooney, called on Biden to drop out of the race in a bombshell op-ed.
The article was published just weeks after the Hollywood star co-hosted Biden, alongside Obama, at a ritzy campaign event in Los Angeles.
Another ally in Obama’s orbit, Jon Favreau, who served as the former director of speech writing for Obama, also called on Biden to drop out of the race last month.
Favreau said he attended the fundraiser in Los Angeles with Clooney and Obama and witnessed firsthand Biden’s state of mental acuity.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday night, Harris and Walz were notably nearly 100 miles away from the DNC during Obama’s speech.
They chose to skip the big night at the DNC to hold a rally in Milwaukee instead.
According to Fox News, the plan for Harris and Walz to be away from the DNC on Tuesday came together to avoid the optics of Harris appearing alongside one of the figures Biden views as responsible for helping end his re-election bid.
“The Obamas are still not on the White House’s good side,” a source familiar with the situation reportedly told the outlet.
“It would not be helpful to their relationships.”
“We are in tricky territory,” this source added.
Harris currently has fewer than 76 days to inspire voters to rally behind her White House run.
Her campaign has notably added a bevy of Obama orbit insiders and advisers to her election efforts, such as David Plouffe, Eric Holder, and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon.
Obama’s connections to Harris run deep, with the pair having a longstanding friendship that stretches back to the early 2000s.
Harris was in attendance when Obama announced his candidacy for president in 2007, after first meeting him in 2004 when he was an Illinois state senator running for the U.S. Senate.
Harris was among the first elected Democrats in the nation to endorse Obama’s first run for president in the 2008 election, snubbing Hillary Clinton in favor of the then-Illinois senator.
“Barack Obama will be a president who finally ends the era of fear that has been used to divide and demoralize our country,” Harris said during California’s Democratic convention in 2008.
As Harris built her political career from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general and then senator, she was even dubbed “the female Obama” by some political analysts.
Obama went on to laud Harris’ political and legal career in California before her vice presidency during his DNC speech.
“As a prosecutor, Kamala stood up for children who had been victims of sexual abuse,” he said.
“As an attorney general of the most populous state in the country, she fought big banks and for-profit colleges, securing billions of dollars for the people they had scammed.
“After the home mortgage crisis, she pushed me and my administration hard to make sure homeowners got a fair settlement.
“Didn’t matter that I was a Democrat.
“Didn’t matter she had knocked on doors for my campaign in Iowa – she was going to fight to get as much relief as possible for the families who deserved it.
“Kamala Harris won’t be focused on her problems.
“She’ll be focused on yours,” he continued.
“As president, she won’t just cater to her own supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee.
“She’ll work on behalf of every American.
“That’s who Kamala is. And in the White House, she will have an outstanding partner in Gov. Tim Walz.”
Walz also has ties to Obama going back years.
Obama, when he served as an Illinois senator, was one of the few high-profile Democrats in the nation to campaign for Walz at the dawn of his career in 2006.
Walz was elected to the House where he served from 2007 to 2019, when he was sworn in as governor of the Gopher State.
“I just remember standing on that stage, and we were coming off it, and there was someone there who was a supporter of mine who said, ‘Stop, let me take a picture,’” Walz said in 2017 of how Obama traveled to Minnesota to support him during his first congressional run in 2006.
The pair, as well as then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar, took a photo together, which Walz framed and hanged in his house, he told the MinnPost in 2017.
“A future congressman, a future senator, and a future president,” Walz said he captioned the photo, noting that Obama was one of the few high-profile Democrats at the time to support him back in 2006.
Obama also took shots at President Trump during his speech, using false claims to paint him as power-hungry.
“The truth is, Donald Trump sees power as nothing more than a means to his ends,” he said.
“He wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him and his rich friends.
“He killed a bipartisan immigration deal written in part by one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress that would have helped secure our southern border because he thought trying to actually solve the problem would hurt his campaign.
“He doesn’t seem to care if more women lose their reproductive freedom since it won’t affect his life.
“And, most of all, Donald Trump wants us to think that this country is hopelessly divided between us and them, between the real Americans who, of course, support him, and the outsiders who don’t.”
Harris is slated to take the DNC stage on Thursday evening.
She will deliver her acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s nomination before the DNC concludes.
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