{"id":4054,"date":"2020-08-12T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2020-08-12T06:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:40:59","slug":"biden-chooses-kamala-harris-for-president-joe-biden-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/12\/biden-chooses-kamala-harris-for-president-joe-biden-for-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Chooses Kamala Harris for President, Joe Biden for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCRANTON, PA \u2013 In a historic, bizarre, and unprecedented move, Joe Biden announced today that he had selected himself as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Biden also announced that Kamala Harris would replace him as the Democratic nominee for President.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harris, a pragmatic moderate who spent most of her early career as a prosecutor, tweeted that she was \u201chonored\u201d to be the first woman with a secure email server to be nominated for the Presidency by a major party.\u00a0 Biden, who made the announcement from a moving Amtrak train passing through Scranton, Pennsylvania, said \u201cI look forward to doing what it takes to make Kamala Harris our next Commander-in-Chief.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of Biden\u2019s closest advisors also took to Twitter to praise the move. \u201cAs Joe showed during his term as Barack Obama\u2019s Vice President,\u201d former Biden campaign manager Greg Schultz wrote, \u201che is the perfect candidate for a job with no concrete responsibilities. He looks forward to biting ice cream, wearing aviator sunglasses, and generally resuming the role he perfected in 2008 as America\u2019s crazy yet somehow harmless uncle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When informed that he would now have to face Kamala Harris in three televised debates, President Donald Trump told reporters he could not be reached for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, PA \u2013 In a historic, bizarre, and unprecedented move, Joe Biden announced today that he had selected himself as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Biden also announced that Kamala Harris would replace him as the Democratic nominee for President.\u00a0 Harris, a pragmatic moderate who spent most of her early career as a prosecutor, tweeted that she was \u201chonored\u201d to be the first woman with a secure email server to be nominated for the Presidency by a major party.\u00a0 Biden, who made the announcement from a moving Amtrak train passing through Scranton, Pennsylvania, said \u201cI look forward to doing what it takes to make Kamala Harris our next Commander-in-Chief.\u201d Many of Biden\u2019s closest advisors also took to Twitter to praise the move. \u201cAs Joe showed during his term as Barack Obama\u2019s Vice President,\u201d former Biden campaign manager Greg Schultz wrote, \u201che is the perfect candidate for a job with no concrete responsibilities. He looks forward to biting ice cream, wearing aviator sunglasses, and generally resuming the role he perfected in 2008 as America\u2019s crazy yet somehow harmless uncle.\u201d When informed that he would now have to face Kamala Harris in three televised debates, President Donald Trump told reporters he could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}