Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for this year’s presidential election, is keeping the pressure on Republican nominee Donald Trump. Harris’ unfolding time on the campaign trail recently included a stop in Massachusetts, where — like at other junctures already — she got an enthusiastic welcome from the crowd.
And as before, Harris compared her own past in prosecution — both in courtrooms and as attorney general of California — with Trump’s background, which includes manifold legal problems like the New York City felony conviction for which sentencing is currently scheduled for September of this year.
“All of this is to say that building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. Because we know when America’s middle class is strong, America is strong,” Harris said. “But as we fight to move our nation forward, Donald Trump intends to take our country backward. Just look at his Project 2025 agenda. And, by the way, can you believe they put that thing in writing? Nine hundred pages of it. So, Project 2025 is a plan that would return America to a very dark past — and weaken the middle class, by the way. Independent economists have said Trump’s plans would reignite inflation, slow economic growth, and increase unemployment.”
Harris also accused Trump of intending to slash Social Security and Medicare and end the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, which currently supports health coverage for millions and millions of Americans. Towards the end of Trump’s time in office, his presidential team argued at the U.S. Supreme Court for the law’s end — with no replacement plan ready to go, which would have left those Americans struggling.
“And America has tried these failed policies before. And we are not going back. We are not going back,” the vice president added in Massachusetts.
Harris, meanwhile, now must choose a running mate for the general election. Possibilities include a handful of Democratic governors and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, all of whom have been making themselves prominent on the campaign trail and in media appearances.
