Kamala Harris Leans Into “Fight For The Future” Contrast With Donald Trump As VP Holds First Rally Of Her 2024 Presidential Campaign

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Kamala Harris spent the bulk of her first rally speech as a 2024 presidential candidate today by leaning heavily into contrasts to Donald Trump, characterizing her campaign as a “fight for the future” while his is one that “wants to take our country backward.” In the Milwaukee area event, Harris told the enthusiastic crowd, “Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law, or a country of chaos, fear and hate?

And here’s the beauty of this moment: We each have the power to answer that question.” Repeating some of the lines from her Biden-Harris campaign stump speech, as well as what she said to Wilmington campaign staff on Monday, Harris nevertheless is drawing media interest she did not before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.

All of the major news channels carried all or part of the speech, with Fox News exiting after about 10 minutes. “Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” Harris told the crowd, claiming that Project 2025 “will weaken the middle class.” She claimed that Trump would cut Social Security and Medicare, give tax breaks to “billionaires and big corporations, and make working families foot the bill.” Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation blueprint for the next administration authored by many former members of Trump’s administration.

Trump and his campaign have tried to distance themselves from the document, which runs hundreds of pages. Among other things, it would create just two tax brackets, 15% and 30%, and eliminate deductions.