President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made their first joint public appearance Thursday since Biden stepped aside on July 21 and Harris became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. The two appeared at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland to announce and celebrate lower drug prices thanks to the first Medicare price negotiation.
The Biden-Harris administration received some well-deserved credit for its work to begin reducing the exorbitant cost of drugs. But the rally was also an emotional event, as chants of “Thank you, Joe,” rang out repeatedly.
“It is my eternal and great, great, great honor—I have to tell you,” Harris said while introducing Biden, “to serve with this most extraordinary human being, and American, and leader. Our President Joe Biden.”
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