Kamala Harris links Trump to Project 2025 in first presidential campaign rally
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} In her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at her Republican rival and a widely derided Trump-linked platform that provides a blueprint for the next GOP administration. “Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” she said in remarks from Milwaukee on Tuesday, just two days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed his vice president. In her first stump speech as the likely nominee on Tuesday, Harris addressed campaign staff and supporters at the campaign’s headquarters in Delaware, where she hailed Biden’s legacy in office, promised to unite the Democratic Party around her campaign, and took aim at her Republican rival, framing Trump as a career criminal up against her history as a top law enforcement official in California. She will work to stop what she is calling “Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans,” she said on Tuesday, “because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have their government tell them what to do.” Harris has also echoed Biden’s pledge to codify Roe v Wade into law, if Congress is able to pass legislation that will affirm Americans’ constitutional rights to abortion care.