President Joe Biden recently dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and announced that he is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement in the race. As a result, Republicans are digging into VP Harris’s past and the reasons she was chosen by President Biden to be his vice president, with some insisting that she was chosen for the position because of her gender and race, a perspective that Susan Rice went ballistic about on CNN.
As background, on Sunday, July 21, President Biden announced that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee. In a tweet on the matter, he said, “My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
Rice, a former White House advisor, commented on the DEI comments when asked about. Republican allegations regarding VP Harris by jhost Wolf Blitzer. He said, “Donald Trump is already slamming her, Kamala Harris, in his words as being ‘dumb as a rock,’ his words. He says she’s dumb as rock, other Republicans are saying she was at diversity hire. What’s your reaction when you hear that?”
Rice, responding, said that it is “extremely offensive and dehumanizing” to criticize Kamala in that matter, or indeed to say the same “DEI hire” thing about anyone, saying, “That is extremely offensive and dehumanizing. Let me tell you what it means when somebody calls a person like me or anybody else a DEI hire.”
Continuing, she claimed that the comment is an insult to all minority groups, telling Blitzer, “What that means is, if you are a woman of any background, if you are a person of color, if you are an immigrant, if you are LGBTQ, if you are disabled, if you’re religious minority, if you’re a veteran and you achieved success rose to a position of leadership you didn’t deserve it, you didn’t get there on merit you got there because you got some unfair advantage. That is incredibly insulting to the vast majority of Americans who fall into all of those categories.”
She added, “It is emblematic of what this race is really all about. It’s a race about whether we are going to move into the future as a democracy, where every American has the opportunity to vote to have their voice heard, to have a chance to make themselves a success or whether we’re going backward to Donald Trump and JD Vance and their Project 2025 vision of an America were women don’t control their own bodies, they can’t get contraception or in vitro fertilization.”
She then said, “To an America where we don’t educate our children in public schools that are sufficiently funded because we don’t want them to have opportunity. That’s 19th Century, where the only people who mattered were frankly white Christian men. That’s what they’re saying with this DEI thing that if you’re somebody who is not a white Christian man, then you didn’t get where you got because you deserved it. That’s not the America who we are.”
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