Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
Washington (dpa) – US Vice President Kamala Harris described Republican nominee Donald Trump as a fraudster and sexual predator in her first campaign rally as candidate for president in the 2024 election
Harris spoke in a packed high school gymnasium in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where the crowd was in a raucous mood, cheering and chanting “Kamala” for nearly a minute after she took the stage.
“I will spend the coming weeks continuing to unite our party so that we are ready to win in November,” Harris said at the rally in Milwaukee, just two days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his deputy to succeed him.
After praising Biden and thanking Democrats for their trust, Harris attacked Trump and outlined a vision of what her presidency would look like.
“I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” she said of her time as a prosecutor and attorney general of California.
“Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
She promised to fight for the middle class and work to eradicate poverty. But one of her loudest applause lines came on the subject of abortion rights.
“We’ll 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!” she said to a roar from the crowd.
“And when Congress passes a law to restore reproductive freedoms, as president of the United States, I will sign it into law.”