‘We’re going to win,’ Kamala Harris tells worried Democratic donors

US Vice President Kamala Harris assured top Democratic donors on Friday that the party would win the November election as long as more lawmakers were calling for his running mate, Joe Biden, to resign.

“We are going to win this election,” Harris said on a call arranged on short notice to calm donors, according to a person who participated in it. “We know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: Our president, Joe Biden.”

The call came after Biden promised to continue in the race and that the Democratic Party planned to fast-track his nomination. At least nine Democratic lawmakers on Friday called on the president to abandon his re-election bid.

Reuters reported that several of Biden’s campaign fundraisers were put on hold, citing multiple Democratic sources involved in the events, as donors threatened to withhold funds.

Donors were invited to a 30-minute briefing “to discuss urgent and emerging needs,” according to a copy of the invitation seen by Reuters.

Harris attended the meeting “at the direct request of senior advisers to the president,” one source said, which was confirmed by another person familiar with the matter.

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