Sen. Kamala Harris said the 2020 presidential election is a matter of “whether we live or die.”
“We have seen a failure of leadership that has resulted in great damage to our country. And the pandemic is not over. It’s going to go on for a little while,” Harris, a former Democratic candidate for president, said of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus on Monday. “Who occupies that seat in the White House really matters. This election in November is going to determine so many things about our future, and it’s going to be about … literally our health and whether we live or die.”
Harris continued, “It’s going to be about the state of our economy and whether we have a job and are treated with dignity or not. It’s going to determine where we will be for future generations, and it’s going to determine it quite immediately. So, I can’t urge everyone enough.”
Harris was speaking during a virtual town hall about the coronavirus and the party’s presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, whom she endorsed after dropping out of the race.
“No one will be made to fight alone, and that’s what Joe Biden says every day, that we are all in this together and there is a place for all of us in his campaign,” she said.
Biden has criticized Trump’s response to the virus, saying that while the pandemic is not his fault, his administration should have been better prepared to deal with the national crisis.
