The following is a press release written by David Henry for the Monroe County Democrats.
The Monroe County Democratic Party Executive Board today joins the Indiana Democratic Party and Indiana’s Democratic National Convention Delegation in unanimously endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for President. Party leadership will call upon the entire central committee to celebrate Vice President Kamala Harris’s historic bid for President in the coming month as we enter the fall and general election.
"We say a big thank you to President Joe Biden for his leadership and service,” said MCDP Chair David G. Henry. “President Biden has again demonstrated his great sense of service and humility to step aside for the good of the nation. His one term of accomplishments - from student loan relief and expanded healthcare protections to over 17 million new jobs, full throated support of Unions and Labor, the return of microchip manufacturing to our shores, to climate action and infrastructure investments and pushing forward reproductive rights and gun sense legislation - will be the measure by which all future presidencies will be judged, and his predecessor’s too.”
“Where President Biden healed our country after the disastrous pandemic and his predecessor’s best efforts to divide our country, President Kamala Harris will build on the Biden-Harris accomplishments for unity, growth, equality, justice, and opportunity for all in the next term.”
At their July Convention, Indiana Democratic State Convention delegates selected four Monroe County residents - Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson, Bloomington City Clerk Nicole Bolden, Bloomington City Councilperson Sydney Zulich, and IU Student Emma Shriberg, as delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. Indiana’s State Delegation unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President on Monday.
"President Biden's leadership and decision supercharges the ballot for 2024 in a way no one could have predicted a year ago,” Henry said. “Instead of a comparison between two presidents or a low-turnout referendum election like 2012, voters now face an open presidency like 2008 and the energy that comes with it.”
"With the possibility of electing the first Woman and Woman of Color as president in Kamala Harris, and a unity ticket with her potential vice-president, local voters will feel a lightning bolt from the top of the ticket that we needed to energize the slate in 2024. Monroe County Democrats will respond in kind, and we will certainly see turnout north of 2012 and 2020 in this cycle with a Harris-and-yet-to-be-determined nominee.”
“That energy will benefit everyone from the McCormick-Goodin ticket for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to Destiny Wells for Attorney General, Dr. Valerie McCray for Senate, Tim Peck for Congress, and Thomas Horrocks, Michelle Higgs and Kurtis Cummings for the Indiana House.”
