Sunrise Movement protesters gathered near Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Brentwood, calling on her to urge President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency. Simon Aron, left, and Josiah Edwards, center, lead a banner.
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Sunrise MovementA large youth climate group strongly supports the President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, urged him on Friday to get out of Race 2024 against former President Donald Trump.
“The stakes are too high. We cannot ignore the warning signs before us,” Sunrise Movement CEO Aru Shiney-Ajay said in a statement.
“The next step in defining Joe Biden’s climate legacy must be to pass the torch to a new nominee,” Shiney-Ajay said.
Her call for Biden to resign comes a day after the president made Press Conference in which he said he was determined to continue the race, and because of the number of Democratic members of Congress Those who want him to resign have grown to nearly 20. As of Friday morning, 18 House Democracy and a Democratic senator has publicly called on Biden to drop out of the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee.
“For the future of our democracy and our planet, we must defeat Trump this November,” Shiney-Ajay said.
“If Trump wins, he will undo President Biden’s historic climate achievements, such as the Deregulation Act and the United States Climate Corps. Another Trump presidency would cause catastrophic and irreversible damage to our climate,” she added.
Shiney-Ajay noted that volunteers at the Sunrise Movement in 2020 reached out to 3.5 million young voters, urging them to vote for Biden over Trump.
“To be clear,” she said, the group plans to convince young voters to support the Democratic candidate, whoever that may be.
“With a ticket that energizes young volunteers, we can reach twice as many voters this fall,” said Shiney-Ajay.
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