{"id":11419,"date":"2024-07-25T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:29:00","slug":"barack-obama-plans-to-endorse-kamala-harris-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/barack-obama-plans-to-endorse-kamala-harris-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Plans To Endorse Kamala Harris Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Barack Obama plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential bid, according to two sources familiar with the situation as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/obama-support-kamala-harris-00171132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The endorsement could be announced as early as Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being out of office for over a decade, Obama remains a deeply influential figure in the Democratic Party. With his endorsement, this could provide substantial energy and fundraising support for Harris\u2019s campaign, and he is expected to campaign for her once she becomes the presumptive nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement on Sunday, Obama said, \u201cWe will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.\u201d According to a source familiar with Obama\u2019s thinking, his delay was intentional. He believed it was important for the party to have a genuine process to select its nominee, and he feels Harris has made a strong start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that Harris is clearly on the path to the nomination, Obama is ready to endorse her as the Democratic candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The specifics of Obama\u2019s upcoming endorsement are not yet clear, but it is expected to be more than just a written statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>As an independent magazine with a small team, we rely on the support of our readers to keep JARO&#8217;s content free and accessible to everyone. Please <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/support-jaro\/\"><em>support<\/em><\/a><em> our ability to continue delivering the best of the African Diaspora with a donation as little as $1. Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential bid, according to two sources familiar with the situation as reported by Politico. The endorsement could be announced as early as Thursday.&nbsp; Despite being out of office for over a decade, Obama remains a deeply influential figure in the Democratic Party. With his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,712],"tags":[31,51],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}