Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned Thursday in Fayetteville, North Carolina , as President Joe Biden remained in COVID-19 quarantine in Delaware.
Harris's trip puts her center stage as Biden remains in quarantine while calls for him to exit the 2024 presidential race and as the possibility that she would replace him atop the ticket continue to grow.
Speculation has run rampant over the past three weeks that Biden, facing a slew of negative polls and coming off a disastrous debate performance in June, will soon exit the race, allowing Harris to be nominated by Democrats in August.
A report published Thursday morning by Axios predicted that Biden could step aside for Harris as soon as this weekend, though the president's campaign has denied the claim.
The bulk of the vice president's remarks focused on former President Donald Trump 's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and claimed that if Republicans take back the White House in 2024 , they would undo all the policies she and Biden ushered in during their term in office.
“This here is the one," she told the crowd. "The most existential, consequential, and important election of our lifetime."
"You cannot claim you stand for unity if you are pushing an agenda that deprives whole groups of Americans of basic freedoms, opportunity, and dignity," Harris said of Trump and Vance. "You cannot claim to be for unity if you fought to overturn a free and fair election."
The crowd of more than 500 attendees chanted "Four more years" when Harris eventually left the stage.
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Harris's trip to North Carolina marked the 15th time she has visited the state as vice president and came just hours before Trump is slated to accept the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Harris's remarks can be seen in full below.
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