Inside the Biden 2024 announcement video with SIXTEEN appearances from Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris takes a prominent supporting role in President Joe Biden’s slick three-minute campaign video announcing his 2024 run, despite some grumbling about her past role — in a film filled with footage selected to make the democratic basis.
Harris can be seen in 16 photos or video clips in the announcement, which is the campaign’s response to months of Democratic grumbling about Harris’ performance and whether she will be able to boost Biden’s re-election efforts and has done enough to take tough issues off Biden’s plate.
The country’s first black vice president appears early in the video during a State of the Union address, in a video where Biden also sometimes stands alone to convey leadership.
She is next seen in a pride parade marching with husband Doug Emhoff wearing a “Love is Love” t-shirt and pink blazer, signaling another important constituency.
The sequence of images was revealed on a day when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to clear up a comment when she initially declined saying Biden planned to serve “eight full years.”
Vice President Kamala Harris appears 16 times in President Joe Biden’s new reelection video
Next, Harris is seen with Biden in the Oval Office in a black and white image, revealing the accession to power, with Biden narrating a “fight for our democracy” as a camera zooms in on the couple.
She also walks side-by-side to Biden’s right in the White House colonnade, chats with South Korean pop stars BTS and hugs First Lady Jill Biden on the White House podium, again underlining her closeness to the Bidens, after reports that her weekly lunches with the president had become irregular.
The video does not seem to show her trip to Latin America, as her focus on “root causes” failed to prevent the migration crisis from becoming a political challenge for the government.
In another shot, she looks at Biden approvingly, while her husband glances their way.
She greets women in the East Room of the White House just before Biden, 80, says “this is no time to be complacent” and announce his 2024 run.
She and husband Doug Emhoff march in a pride parade
Here she looks at Biden approvingly
One shot shows her with K-pop band BTS
Despite the Democratic grumbling about her, she is seen as Biden’s right-hand man
It is important that the Democrats show that Harris is ready to lead as Biden begins his historic run
She is also seen alongside new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose confirmation of a lifetime tenure will be one of Biden’s lasting achievements. Like Harris, KBJ broke barriers after Biden promised in advance to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
Harris, who ran for president himself in 2020 and could one day succeed Biden, also appears at Biden’s side during the signing of a bill, holding a microphone with an American flag in the background and taking a selfie on battlefield Milwaukee.
And she is seen laughing with Biden and smiling at the end of the video, as the president says “let’s get the job done.”
The attention to Harris are just some of the signals packed into the video.
It features a quick shot of Biden walking with former President Barack Obama, a popular figure among Democrats who revived his national political career.
Interspersed among the shots of flags, monuments, workers and veterans are some Republican enemies intended to symbolize Biden’s fight against “MAGA extremists.”
First lady Jill Biden, whose popularity ratings are somewhat positive, i.e. better than her husband’s, and who has been a surrogate and fundraiser, gets a lot of face time in the video. Blood relatives of Biden, including son Hunter Biden who accompanied him to Ireland this month, do not.
The Republicans appearing are former enemy of 2020 Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (who repeatedly accused the Bidens of involvement in human trafficking), and loyalist Trump rep. Matt Gaetz. Another shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis currently gauging better against Biden than Trump).
The video begins with images of the chaos on January 6
Harris can often be seen in the video, but not heard. Here she stands in front of a bust of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He hugs first lady Jill Biden
She poses for a selfie on the Wisconsin battlefield
Harris and Biden are seen with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The video confirms Harris’s closeness to Biden
Two top GOP contenders, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, make the video
Biden calls his re-election another battle for the ‘soul of America’
That comes amid a campaign launch video featuring the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in the opening frame, which features footage of police clashing with rioters.
It includes Biden’s call for the right to vote and the late Representative John Lewis, with explicit calls to fight for abortion rights and images of the Supreme Court.
Biden shakes hands with a man wearing a yarmulke as his voiceover calls for a country where people are treated equally, and shows him in a Tamales Liliana’s in East LA where workers shout in Spanish, “Arriba Biden!”
Reverend Al Sharpton appears twice in the video and is seen walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
Other quick clips show military members, firefighter uniforms and banned books by author Toni Morrison.