AG Letitia James Says Kamala Harris Is ‘More Qualified than the Last Four Presidents’

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Sanders: “Madam attorney general, thank you for being with us, there’s been a lot of talk about this call that happened last week, when black women called, it is a call that has happened every Sunday for the past couple of years but last Sunday was very specific, can you give us insight as to what went down on the call?”

James: “I was not one of the organizers, I was one of the participants but I did send it out to my network of friends in the great state of New York. It’s important that individuals understand what is at stake right now and everything is at stake. I think the attorney general, I and my other colleagues have endorsed Harris, and an attorney general, it’s in the best position to know what a former attorney general is capable of and Kamala Harris clearly is capable and is the most qualified individual to run for president in fact more qualified than the last four presidents. And it’s important that individuals recognize our basic liberties and freedoms right now are being jeopardized as the attorney general, I have joined with others to analyze project 25. And this is not new to us, this is something which Donald Trump is true too, why? Because when he was president of these United States, I, and other attorney generals, Democrats, we had to sue him in fact under my leadership, my office suit Donald Trump over 100 times and the basis of all of that was, project 2025. So he cannot distance himself from something that he has attempted to implemented when he was president of these United States and we were successful, 70% of the time. We were the firewall, democratic attorney generals, and she, Kamala Harris, given her experience, given her background, someone who was obviously concerned about liberty and freedoms in this country and our democracy as a whole, she is the most qualified candidate to be president of these United States and it’s my singular focus to have her elected president of these United States, organizing, mobilizing and educating individuals about all that Trump did to divide us on constructs such as race, class, gender and as Eleanor Roosevelt said because we are—“