Kamala Harris said Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class.
Washington:
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is relying on the support of billionaires and big corporations while hers is a people-powered campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday at her first campaign rally, a day after becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. became a party. Party.
“Donald Trump relies on the support of billionaires and big corporations. He trades access in exchange for campaign contributions. A few months ago you all saw him at Mar-a-Lago literally big oil companies, big oil lobbyists, “he was going to make their bid for $1 billion in campaign donations,” said Harris, 59, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“On the other hand, we are running a people-driven campaign. We just got the latest news. We just had the best 24 hours of grassroots fundraising in the history of the presidential campaign. Because we are a people-powered campaign, that’s how you know we’re going to have a people-first presidency,” Harris said at her first campaign rally, less than 50 hours after she entered the race after President Joe Biden resigned withdrawn from the race.
“This campaign is also about two different visions for our nation. One, where we are focused on the future, focused on the past. We believe in a future where everyone has the opportunity not only to get by, but also to get ahead coming,” she said to the cheers of the audience.
“A future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every worker has the freedom to join a union, where everyone has affordable healthcare, affordable childcare and paid family leave. We believe in a future in which every senior can retire. With dignity. All of this is to say that building the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. Because here’s the thing: we’re all here. When our middle class is strong, America is strong.
Harris claimed that Trump wants to take the country backwards.
“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. As we know, we have to take this seriously. …Donald Trump plans to cut Social Security and Medicare. He plans to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families pay the bill,” Harris said.
“They plan to end the Affordable Care Act and return us to a time when insurance companies had the power to turn away people with pre-existing conditions. Do you 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’re not going back. And I’ll tell you why we’re not going back,” she said.
‘Because ours is a fight for the future. It is a fight for freedom. Generations of Americans before us have led the fight for freedom. And now, Wisconsin, the baton is in our hands. We, who believe in the sacred freedom to vote. We will ensure that every American has the opportunity to cast their vote and have it counted,” Harris said.
“We, who believe that every person in our country should have the freedom to live safely from the terror of gun violence, will finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and a ban on assault weapons. We who believe in reproductive freedom, “It will end Donald Trump’s extreme abortion ban because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not their government telling them what to do,” she said.
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