Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. to lead the selection process for her running mate for the White House, according to The New York Times.
Holder and his law firm, Covington & Burling, are leading the vetting of candidates. according to Harris is less than a month away from the Democratic National Convention. Convene A convention was held in Chicago to formally select her presidential and vice presidential candidates, and her campaign set an August 7 deadline for selecting her running mate. (RELATED: Kamala Harris once mocked Trump's warning about terrorists crossing the border)
“We have a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Harris said at a fundraiser over the weekend, according to The New York Times.
Potential running mates for Harris include other Democratic candidates such as Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. according to To ABC News.
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 14: US President Joe Biden speaks about the assassination attempt on former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Holder, who ran the Justice Department under the Obama administration, was the first attorney general to be charged with contempt of Congress in 2012 for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into the “Fast & Furious” scandal, which involved a “gun walking” scheme to sell a range of firearms to criminals in order to go after Mexican crime syndicates.
Even after leaving the Obama administration and returning to private practice as an attorney, Holder has remained active in Democratic politics.
Holder was speaking at a rally in support of Stacey Abrams, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018. urged the crowd To “kick the hell out” of Republicans.
“If they play low, we play high. No, if they play low, we play kick them,” he said at a 2018 rally in Stockbridge, Georgia, prompting the crowd to chant “Fight!”
During an August 2021 appearance on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Holder argued that liberal activists who support voting rights should be arrested.
“Democrats have to ask themselves: 'Do I want to be seen as a James Eastland, like my predecessors who opposed the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, and do I want that to be my legacy?'” by raising awareness through protests, arrests and action to end racism, Holder said at the time.
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