BOSTON (WHDH) – Rep. Jake Auchincloss shared his reaction Sunday after President Joe Biden ended his 2024 reelection campaign, praising Biden and previewing a potential general election matchup between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“She prosecuted sex predators and he is a sex predator,” Auchincloss told 7NEWS. “So, I think that’s going to be a pretty strong contrast.”
Biden announced his decision to step aside after weeks of pressure following his debate against Trump last month. Biden soon endorsed Harris to replace him atop the Democratic presidential ticket.
Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Massachusetts’ Fourth Congressional District, said he also supports Harris.
“That’s not exclusive to having an open and transparent process, though,” he said. “I think Kamala Harris will earn and win this nomination because she’s a career prosecutor who is well positioned to take on a convicted felon.”
Harris served as the District Attorney of San Francisco before becoming Attorney General of California in 2010. She won her way into the senate in 2016 and joined Biden as his running mate in 2020 after she suspended her own presidential campaign.
Auchincloss said Harris “stands for the rule of law at a time when the Republican party is torpedoing border security legislation, trying to surge weapons of war onto our streets and in our schools and is inciting insurrection and tearing up the Constitution.”
“She is the right woman for the moment,” he said.
Though Biden will no longer face Trump in this year’s election, Auchincloss continued to draw contrast between the president and Trump.
“Joe Biden is ceding power because it’s in the best interest of the United States,” he said. “Trump, by contrast, clung to power, incited an insurrection, caused officers of the law to lose their lives in the line of duty because he refused to put the interests of the United States above his own ego.”
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