Kamala Harris set about dismantling her Republican rival Donald Trump in her first rally since taking over the Democratic presidential campaign from Joe Biden.
Speaking in Milwaukee, the vice president called Trump a fraudster, a liar and a cheat.
“I was elected Attorney General of the State of California and I was a corporate prosecutor before that, and in those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” she said.
“Predators who abused women, fraudster who ripped off consumers, and cheaters who broke the rules for their gain.
Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump
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“So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.
“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward. He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class,” Harris said, adding: “We got to take this seriously. And can you believe they put that thing in writing?”
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Kamala Harris spoke to a packed gymnasium
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“Read it – it’s 900 pages,” she continued:
"But here’s the thing, when you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.
"He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill. They intend to end the Affordable Care Act and take us back then to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.
"Remember what that was like, children with asthma, women who survived breast cancer, grandparents with diabetes. America has tried these failed economic policies before, and we are not going back.
Joe Biden withdrew from the campaign and offered his support to Kamala Harris
GB NewsThe 59-year-old also had praise for incumbent president Joe Biden in her speech, the man who stepped aside for her to take the reins.
She said it was the “greatest honour of my life” to serve under him, adding his legacy is “unmatched in modern history”.
"We are all deeply, deeply grateful for his continuing service to our nation," she adds.
The vice president delivered the speech in a packed gymnasium, walking out to Beyonce’s ‘Freedom’.
Her campaign says over 3,000 people were present.
Harris ended her speech by asking the crowd “what country do we want to live with?
“Do we want to live in chaos and hate? We each have the power to answer that question.
“In the next 105 days, we have work to do, and we have an election to win.”