Kamala Harris Vows US 'Not Going Back' To 'Chaos' of Trump Years 🇺🇸
Kamala Harris vowed on Tuesday that Americans were “not going back” to the “chaos” of the Donald Trump years, as she made her campaign trail debut in battleground Wisconsin with just over 100 days left before the election. The Guardian, July 23, 2022.
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In an fiery speech a day after securing enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination, the vice-president sought to frame the contest against Trump as a choice between starkly different visions for the country, casting his as regressive and backward-looking and hers as optimistic and forward-looking.
“Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law or a country of chaos, fear and hate?” she asked, drawing roaring applause and chants of “Kamala” – an enthusiasm that has eluded Democrats in recent months.
Kamala Harris arrived in Milwaukee, the two most powerful Democrats in Congress, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, enthusiastically threw their support behind Harris during a joint press conference in Washington DC. Democrats are moving forward stronger and more united than ever before,” Schumer told reporters on Tuesday, adding that he had seen a “surge of enthusiasm from every corner of our party” since Harris became the presumptive nominee.
The Milwaukee event was Harris’s first official campaign rally since Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign on Sunday, and endorsed his 59-year-old vice-president to replace him. In short order, she consolidated support among the party, ending weeks of internal drama following a calamitous debate performance that exacerbated voters’ concerns about the 81-year-old president’s fitness to serve another four years – and a discussion over who could replace him if he bowed out...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-election-campaign-rally-wisconsin
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