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Vice President Kamala Harris praises U.S. domestic manufacturing recovery under president’s leadership Joe Biden The intense media interest at a campaign event in North Carolina on Thursday reflected her status as the Democratic Party’s most likely nominee. presidential candidate If Biden Give up re-election bid.

“The fact is that under Donald Trump, America has lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs. Under his leadership, more than 1,000 factories have closed,” Harris said in Fayetteville. ” At the same time, President Joe Biden and I have created nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs — so many that it has been described as a manufacturing boom.”

The Vice President’s remarks came against the backdrop of Enormous pressure Top Democrats have called on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.

According to media reports, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Both told Biden that his re-election bid could jeopardize the party’s electoral chances in both houses of Congress.

Two sources familiar with former President Barack Obama’s thinking told NBC News Although he is “concerned” about Biden’s ability to maintain his lead in the Democratic vote, he still sees his main role as an adviser and adviser to the two-term vice president.

Although huge donors to the Democratic Party Pressure Biden to step downdonation drives featuring Harris have begun to sell out.

Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and is currently self-isolating in Delaware. block incoming calls Drop out of school.

But his campaign has quietly begun Assess feasibility A source told NBC News last week that the Harris-led vote investigated the vice president’s chances of going head-to-head with former President Donald Trump.

A new CBS/YouGov national poll of likely voters shows the Republican presidential candidate leading Biden by 5 points, 52% to 47%, while Trump leads 51% to 51% in a hypothetical matchup. A 48% margin leads Harris by 3 percentage points. The poll was conducted after Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump, and both results were within the margin of error.

Harris responded to the Republican vice presidential nominee in a speech broadcast live on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News on Thursday J.D. Vance delivers a speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.

“He’s not talking about Plan 2025, which is the 900-page blueprint for Trump’s second term,” Harris said. policy plan Developed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. “He’s not talking about it because their plans are extreme and divisive.”

“In recent days, they’ve been trying to portray themselves as the party of unity. Here’s the thing: If you claim to represent unity, you need to do more than just use the word,” Harris said. “You cannot claim to support unity if you advance an agenda that deprives an entire group of Americans of basic freedoms, opportunity and dignity.”

Harris, who was campaigning in Michigan on Wednesday, also praised the administration’s achievements, including Insulin price cap,expansion child tax credit and student debt relief.

“It’s clear that if Donald Trump wins in November, he will continue to sell out working families, he will continue to attack reproductive freedoms, and he will continue to undermine our democracy,” Harris said.

This is Harris’ seventh trip this year and second this month to North Carolina, a battleground state for Democrats. Hope it can be reversed After narrowly losing to Trump in 2020.

Harris spoke at a campaign event in Greensboro on July 11, where she was joined by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who is not running for reelection. Cooper, who served as North Carolina’s attorney general while Harris served as California’s attorney general, also spoke at Thursday’s rally.