Donald Trump’s team launched provocations and criticisms of the return of the account used for the 2024 Democratic campaign, inactive after the Republican’s victory.
Former US Vice President Kamala Harris this Friday reactivated one of the accounts on the social network X of the 2024 Democratic campaign for president, prompting immediate criticism from the White House.
“I’m really excited about this,” says Harris in a brief video introducing the account, now called , which has been inactive since November 5, 2024, the date of won by Republican Donald Trump.
The objective of reactivation, according to Harris, is fprovide information to young Americans and highlight elected officials and civil society figures.
“Stay committed”, concluded the former Californian senator, considered one of the potential candidates for president in 2028.
Several surveys show Harris Leads Among Potential Democratic Primary Candidatesnamely from California Governor Gavin Newsom.
A Donald Trump’s team attacked this return on social media immediately.
“Putting Kamala on the front line is exactly what Democrats need,” White House press secretary Abigail Jackson quipped, also on X.
Other accounts associated with the President reacted with provocations.
Harris says Biden was “tired”
Kamala Harris has been traveling the country in recent months to promote her book, “107 Days”, which corresponds to the duration of her hastily launched campaign after Joe Biden’s withdrawal on July 21, 2024.
In the work, released in September last year, Harris claims to have been “reckless” for Democrats to leave the decision to run again in 2024 to the “tired” Biden and denounced the former president’s team for demeaning her.
The former president would withdraw from the race in July 2024, after a disastrous performance in the debate with Trump, after which the then vice-president assumed the Democratic candidacy.
In the excerpt from the book, Harris continues to defend Biden’s ability to carry out the role, but describes it in 2024, and especially at the time of “disaster does not debate”, as “tired”.
Possible attempt to return to the White House
The former vice president also blames people close to Biden for unfavorable media coverage which he was the target of throughout the period in which he held office.
“In fact, it seemed that they decided that I should be demoted a little more”, he states in his book.
Harris has criticized Trump on several occasions, most recently after the military intervention in Venezuela, which she considered “illegal and reckless“.
Trump’s popularity falling
At the same time that Kamala appears as one of the main figures in the polls for the Democratic primaries, to be held in November this year, Donald Trump sees his approval rating falling to a minimum of 37% in the poll .
Disapproval of his work in the Oval Office rose to 61%. 50% considered his actions “worse than expected” and 52% expressed support for “few or none” of his policies. Also in November, the 3rd, mid-term elections take place, elections held after two years of the presidential elections, in the middle of the term.
The so-called ‘midterms’ involve the renewal of the entire Chamber of Representatives and a third of the Senate, in addition to the election of 36 governors and other local authorities. Trump acknowledged that the in the interim.
