Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising pitch for Vice President Harris’s White Home marketing campaign, saying that “our democracy hangs in the balance.”
In a Wednesday fundraising e-mail from Harris’s marketing campaign that was signed by Burns, the “Civil War” documentary filmmaker known as the presidential race “among the most critical elections in our country’s history.”
Asking supporters for $25 donations, Burns praised Harris and President Biden, saying that future generations will choose them as having had “legislative accomplishments that make them one of our nation’s most effective administrations.”
Burns blasted former President Trump, who he stated “has threatened the most basic tenets of our democracy, such as the peaceful transfer of power, and he bears the historic distinction of being the first former president to have 34 felony convictions.”
Historical past, the 71-year-old Emmy Award winner stated, has “shown us that when it comes to Donald Trump, complacency is our greatest enemy.”
“History will remember our actions in this moment,” the political donation enchantment stated.
“Let’s not saddle ourselves — or our nation — with regrets,” he stated. “Our democracy depends on it.”
The historical past professional can also be poised to headline a digital Harris fundraiser subsequent week with actor Tom Hanks. The dialog with the “Saving Private Ryan” star, Burns stated on Wednesday, would concentrate on “our history and our future.”
In an interview earlier this week, Burns criticized the “incredibly dangerous” GOP, saying, “It’s going to be difficult for the Republican Party to figure out a way to escape the specific gravity of the darkness that now engulfs it.”
