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.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    1511·
    3 months ago

    Michelle: When they go low we go high.

    Kamala: Let the meme trolling begin!

    If we do end up descending into a Draconian hellhole of an autocratic dictatorship at least the election run-up is going to be exponentially more entertaining than it was going to be with Joe.

    I say that dictatorship part because don’t think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

    • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
      424·
      3 months ago

      I say that dictatorship part because don’t think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

      I’ve been saying this since Sunday. We just blew up the Death Star, but the Empire is still a threat. The fight ain’t over, yet.

      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
        311·
        3 months ago

        How did we blow up the Death Star? No victories have been achieved yet.

        This is more like Han hanging over the reigns of the Millenium Falcon to Lando in RotJ. The battle hasn’t even begun.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          I disagree. Biden pulled a master political move that isn’t the Death Star blowing up, but it’s still a deft maneuver for the republic.

          Consider that Trump was shot at and just two weeks later we aren’t talking about it. The RNC happened and it’s not in the news. The only thing in the news is Trump dropped out to run away from Kamala. It’s an insanely smart political move. The republicans are so upset they’re filing impeachment papers, yelling about democracy, and threatening with the law. They’re so scared that they’re scrambling to do anything.

          And Trump being shot at didn’t get him anything in the polls. That’s how crazy this all is

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          3 months ago

          Yeah for real. While I am happy to see such excitement around Harris, this is far from over. Too many people celebrating prematurely. Remember 2016???

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              3 months ago

              That’s just not true. Maybe you weren’t, but this country is full of neo-libs.

              Also, maybe you forget, but Kamala ran in the 2020 primary. A LOT fewer people were excited about her than they were about Clinton. By orders of magnitude. You can literally measure it if you wanted.

              The current “excitement” is not due to the person, it’s due to the situation. The same fucking thing would be happening if Biden had chosen fucking Gabrielle Giffords (or literally anyone else under the age of 70 without an ‘R’ next to their name) way back then.

              He could have chosen three Colombia University pro-Palestine protestors stacked up under a trenchcoat, and people would be “excited” right now about them taking Biden’s place.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          The Death Star by that point had been blown up quite conclusively.

          This is not the battle. This is some senate noise 1-2 years PBY nobody is going to remember after.

      • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        This is more like Obiwan being cut down by Vader as Leia escapes with Han & Luke. Obiwan sacrificed himself to distract Vader long enough for the others to make their escape. We’re just getting started.

        Don’t worry… Plenty of time still to blow up the Death Star. And then the Empire strikes back.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
          2·
          3 months ago

          So Joe Biden will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine?

          “You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will be instructed by Obama, the great President who instructed me.”

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          And then it’ll turn out that the new Republic and Jedi Order that were set up after the fall of the Empire were so ineffectual that they might as well not have bothered. Thanks, Disney.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
      26·
      3 months ago

      There’s a “simple” solution to prevent their civil war plans. You got to crush them at the voting stations so hard that every question about foul play gets destroyed in its roots.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      3 months ago

      Donald Trump could very well roll over and die and I would be ok with that. The only downside is not getting to know that he is in prison being miserable

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        19·
        3 months ago

        The Heritage Foundation and its plan to cement autocratic fascist rule in the US will survive Trump.

        • leadore@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          Which is why they got trump to pick Vance for VP, who is young and all in on project 2025, to be their chosen figurehead for the future. They don’t care about or like trump; they’re just using him as their vehicle to get in power and that’s it. After that they’re fine with/hoping for him to drop dead ASAP after the inauguration so they can usher in their full agenda. Meantime trump is only the symbolic figurehead and if by chance he doesn’t go along with their plans (unlikely), they can always use the 25th Amendment to get rid of him.

      • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 months ago

        Somehow he’d still have a voice in prison. Kinda like all those interviews with Ted Bundy and Charles Manson et al.

        His biggest misery would be to be alive and completely silenced.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          So a stroke.

          Well, he’s old as fuck and eats McDonald’s for most meals. I’m also not sure if anyone would notice, so there’s a good chance it would be a bad one.

      • Kellamity@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        3 months ago
        • guns
        • freedom
        • profitable good healthcare
        • freedom
        • national security
        • guns
        • white supremacy The American Way
        • Your rights if you count
        • christianity?
        • freedom
        • transphobia family values
        • the cops’ ability to commit unchecked violence
        • guns and freedom
        • 1940s textbooks

        All of these things are at risk.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 months ago

      Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

      Exactly like they did last time? Remember Rudy Giuliani doing all these shenanigans last time? Cyber ninjas?

      Only difference is that I find it doubtful Joe Biden will try to disrupt proceedings on January 6, 2025. I think it would be awkward for him to ask his VP to not certify the results if Kamala Harris wins.