FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - On July 21, President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 Presidential race. Biden's withdrawal besides included his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic his prime to beryllium the Democratic Party's campaigner for President of the United States.
Some section leaders accidental Vice President Harris's information means overmuch much than galore realize.
"I deliberation this is simply a large woody for not conscionable the achromatic community, but immoderate assemblage of color," Pastor B. T. Lewis of Rising Star Missionary Church said.
Lewis says determination is nary uncertainty successful his caput that practice and diverseness tin person a profoundly affirmative effect connected a population.
"When we spot radical that look similar america oregon that person gone done immoderate of the aforesaid struggles that we person successful this state and spot them emergence to a presumption of powerfulness and authorization and bash it with grace and humility, I deliberation that bodes good for each of our children and bodes good for our state arsenic a whole."
Beyond Harris' imaginable to beryllium an illustration for others, Lewis says Harris's empathetic authorities attack could assistance impoverished communities.
"I deliberation she's precise acquainted with immoderate of the problems we face," Lewis said. "Challenges that we have. Trying to level the playing tract truthful that radical person opportunities that they would not ordinarily person nether a Republican administration."
Lewis says present is the clip for governmental enactment astatine the section level with groups similar the NAACP, Black Americans for Political Action, and others to drum up enactment for Vice President Harris.
"We're going to scope retired crossed the metropolis and crossed the region and bash everything that we tin to mobilize and to enactment the candidacy of Vice President Kamala," Lewis said.