“Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.”

-Mayor Andre Dickens

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‘Rocking with Kamala Harris’: Thousands of Black men rally, raise money on video call

Dickens told the men that Atlanta was excited about supporting Harris, adding that money and support were already rolling in.

“The victories that we got for Joe Biden, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff (are) going to happen again for Kamala Harris,” Dickens said. “We are fired up. Now it is time to raise the money, get the volunteers and go forward. Let’s keep this thing going. No doubt. No fear.”

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Mayor Dickens on election: ‘I want Atlantans to remember’

“I want Atlantans to remember,” he said on Tuesday.

“In Atlanta, we must show up to vote,” he said. “We understand that Georgia did a thing in 2020 when we — by some 11,000 votes — elected Biden, over Trump.”

“I want Georgians to have a real good memory of how we felt four years ago,” he continued. “I want Atlantans, our residents here, our small businesses to think back.”

Following Biden’s win in 2020, some residents in the Democratic stronghold toasted glasses of champagne toward the John Lewis mural downtown, while others celebrated in the streets over the city’s iconic rainbow crosswalks at 10th and Piedmont.

But with support for Biden waning after four years in office and election fatigue a concern for mobilization groups — particularly in swing states like Georgia — the city’s top leader is already urging residents to take to the polls in November.

“Four years is enough time for you to still be able to look back and say I remember the lies that we’re told, the deception, the broken promises, the hate, the vitriol,” Dickens said during a passionate response to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution question at a Biden campaign event.

“I want Atlantans to remember that and go to the polls like they’ve never gone before — that’s my message to Atlanta,” he said.

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens rallies local labor leaders

”It’s in my blood to make sure that I show up for hard-working people and making sure that a fair day’s wage is paid for a full day’s work,” he said of his mother working in a union when he was growing up. “And that’s something that ‘Union Joe’ believes in as well. Our President Joe Biden is one of the most labor forward, labor committed presidents you could ever find.”

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Inside City Hall: Dickens visits the Oval Office for chat with Biden

“Right now we are expanding Concourse D, thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law that you put in place,” Dickens told Biden. “And this thing here enables us to build it a mile away and then transport it in with millimeter like precision.”

The quippy video featuring Atlanta’s mayor — posted on the president’s official social media channels — gave us our first look at the role Dickens will play in Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ reelection bid.

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Inside City Hall: Atlanta mayor lauds Biden administration

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens recently gave a shoutout to the White House during a national media call last week.

Dickens said the Biden administration worked with Congressman Raphael Warnock to pass legislation that will cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 beginning next month. Dickens also said Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law provided $6.9 million to Georgia for pollution cleanup.

“I’ve been using those funds to incentivize developers to go into sites they would have had to spend their own capital in cleaning up before they even started doing the site development work,” Dickens said. “They would have looked past these sites, which means Black and brown communities would not have seen development that we need.”

Dickens also thanked said President Joe Biden for investing into the city’s efforts to bolster crime intervention, small businesses, and internet access.

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