For Immediate Release: July 21, 2024

Contact: media@colorofchange.org 

COLOR OF CHANGE PAC RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BIDEN NOT SEEKING REELECTION

NATIONAL – Today, President Biden announced his decision to step down as President of the United States. Rashad Robinson, spokesperson for Color Of Change PAC, issues the following statement:

“First and foremost, I’d like to express my gratitude to President Joe Biden for his immense service as America’s 46th President. Under his and Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership, the administration forgave student loan debt for over 40 million borrowers, historically confirmed Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown and established a temporary Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion, which helped reduce child poverty down to a record low of 5.2 percent in 2021. From top to bottom, the Biden Administration has worked tirelessly for the American public through democratic ideals. 

But even more importantly, these accomplishments, and many more, were made possible because of President Biden’s willingness to recognize and rectify how much discrimination holds our entire country back and how much equity powers it forward.

But let us also be clear: Vice President Kamala Harris is the right person to lead our country forward, and perhaps even more important, take on Donald Trump. Her commitment to equity and rectifying discrimination has been central to her ethos since her position as Attorney General of California, being instrumental in passage of the California Homeowners Bill of Rights in 2021, which protected homeworkers from foreclosure abuses and provided key legal protections for borrowers. Her co-sponorship of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018, which passed unanimously, made lynching a federal hate crime. Her introduction of the Maternal CARE Act, addressed the high rate of maternal mortality among Black women in the United States, by providing training programs for medical schools to combat implicit bias among healthcare providers, creating comprehensive maternity care for women in underserved communities, and prioritized the collection of data to better understand disparities in medical health outcomes. And, of course, her active involvement in COVID-19 pandemic relief, advocating for a 1.9 trillion dollar economic stimulus package that supported businesses, funded vaccine distribution and more. 

The threats we have ahead of us are formidable. The far right and neo-segregationists are threatening to dismantle entities like the Department of Education and the Department of Justice, limit our civil liberties as they have already done with affirmative action and abortion rights, and to set us back further than before. They are absolutely targeting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 next, which prohibits racial discrimination, and we cannot let that happen, and setting the groundwork for widespread discrimination through Project 2025. We need a president who can go toe-to-toe with these challenges and stand their ground without blinking an eye, and out of all of the contenders for POTUS being thrown around, Vice President Kamala Harris fits the bill in every single category. 

Black voters will not stand aside and allow progress to be eroded by extremist Republicans who seek to destroy our democracy as we know it by extremist Republicans who seek to dismantle democracy as we know it and eradicate our protections in this country. By empowering a candidate we believe in, we progress together as a country. In a new poll, almost two-thirds of American voters voiced their support for a new candidate, one that will listen to them. Vice President Kamala Harris will continue the fight for justice, and we must stand with her in this moment. Color Of Change PAC believes her leadership is what it will take to unite the country, protect our liberties and restore faith in our democracy.”

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About Color Of Change PAC

Color Of Change PAC is a Political Action Committee focused on building independent Black political power, amplifying Black voices, electing candidates who share our values, and holding them accountable to our communities. For more information on Color Of Change PAC, visit votingwhileblack.com.

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