In her first rally as the Democratic Party’s Presumptive Presidential Nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, whose campaign is over $100 million richer in grassroots donations over the last two days, wowed a very enthusiastic crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Similar to the remarks she made during a rally the troops event at the Harris for President Campaign Headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on July 22, the Vice President made her case on the need to defeat Donald Trump and where she would like to steer the country in her Administration.
After a glowing tribute to President Joe Biden (who returned to the White House today following his illness with COVID,) Harris told the audience:
“So friends, we have 105 days until election day. And in that time we’ve got some work to do. But we’re not afraid of hard work. We like hard work, don’t we? And we will win this election.”
in describing her experience as a prosecutor, she repeated a line she used yesterday in describing the criminals she prosecuted for fraud and sexual abuse:
“I know Donald Trump’s type.”
On Trump’s comments that his record is better than the Biden/Harris Administration, she proclaimed, “I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.”
The Vice President then distinguished the emphasis of the two campaigns and “who we fight for.”
Trump, Harris asserted, fights for the rich and corporate interests that will contribute to his campaign (and paying his legal bills.)
The Harris for President campaign, she relayed, “On the other hand are running a people-powered campaign. And we just had some breaking news. We just had the best 24 hours of grassroots fundraising in presidential campaign history. Because we are a people powered campaign, we will be a People First Presidency.”
Harris then conveyed that the election is about two visions for the United States. The Harris for President Campaign, she said is “focused on the future” while “the other (Trump/Vance) focused on the past.”
She described her vision further, offering:
“We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead. A future where no child has to grow up in poverty. Where every worker has the freedom to join a union. Where every person has affordable health care, affordable child care, and paid family leave. We believe in a future where every senior can retire with dignity.”
“So all of this is to say building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my Presidency...When our middle class is strong America is strong
She then contrasted her vision with Trumps, saying he “wants to take our country backward.”
Harris continued with:
“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the Middle Class…Can you believe they put that thing in writing. Read it. It’s 900 pages. But here’s the thing. When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill. They intend to end the Affordable Care Act and take us back then to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions. Remember what that was like. Children with asthma. Women who survived breast cancer. Grandparents with diabetes.”
“America has tried these failed economic policies before. But we are not going back. We are not going back…And I’ll tell you why we’re not going back. Because ours is a fight for the future. And it is a fight for freedom.”
“Generations of America’s. Generations! And we have to remember this. The shoulders on which we stand. Generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom and now…the baton is in our hands.”
“We who believe in the sacred freedom to vote will make sure every American has the ability to cast their ballot and have it counted. We who believe that every person in our nation should have the freedom to live safe from the terror of gun violence. We will finally pass red flag laws universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. And we who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do. And when Congress passes a law to restore reproductive freedoms as President of the United States, I will sign it into law.”
In her closing remarks, the Vice President framed the election with the question “What kind of country do we want to live in?”
“Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law or a country of chaos, fear, and hate. The beauty of this moment We each have the power to answer that question. And here’s the beauty of this moment. We each have the power to answer that question. The power is with the people. We each have the power to answer that question.”
“And in the next 105 days, we have work to do. We have doors to knock on. We have phone calls to make. We have voters to register and we have an election to win.”
“Are you ready to get to work? Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of America? And are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win.”
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