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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

Biden on the trail: Will US president help or hurt Harris’s campaign?

US President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race amid questions about his age and cognitive ability, said he plans to campaign for Kamala Harris in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and other places [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]

It was Kamala Harris’s first public speech after incumbent Joe Biden withdrew from the United States presidential race — and the vice president spent much of it hailing her boss.

“Joe Biden’s legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history,” Harris told a crowd assembled on the White House lawn on July 22, a day after Biden dropped his re-election bid.

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