Harris Wrecks Trump in First Campaign Speech

And it was fantastic

Jul 23, 2024

VP Kamala Harris had the opportunity yesterday to make her first campaign speech as a presidential candidate. It was pitch perfect. And wow, it was brutal for Donald Trump.

Harris started by talking about how her time as California’s Attorney General and as a courtroom prosecutor makes her uniquely qualified to take on predators like Trump.

In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds: Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump's type.

Kamala then expertly ripped Donald’s entire persona to shreds. Highlighting her personal experiences and successes, Harris proved she is more than ready to take on the felon and win.

When I was in the Alameda County District Attorney's office in California, I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found liable by a jury for committing sexual abuse. As Attorney General of California, I took on one of our country's largest for-profit colleges and put it out of business. Donald Trump ran a for-profit college, Trump University, that was forced to pay $25 million to the students it scammed.

During the foreclosure crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won $20 billion for California families, holding those banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was just found guilty of 34 counts of fraud.

The presumptive Democratic nominee also eloquently laid out her vision for America.

Donald Trump wants to take our country backward. To a time before many of our fellow Americans had full freedoms and rights. But we believe in a brighter future that makes room for all Americans. We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead.

We believe in a future where no child has to grow up in poverty. Where every person can buy a home, start a family and build wealth. And where every person has access to paid family leave and affordable childcare. That's the future we see. Together we fight to build a nation where every person has affordable health care. Where every worker is paid fairly, and where every senior can retire with dignity.

Harris didn’t mince words when calling out Project 2025 and Trump’s backward policies.

We know that's not the future Donald Trump is fighting for. He and his and his extreme Project 2025 will weaken the middle class and bring us backward. Please do note that. Back to the failed, trickle-down policies that gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations, and made working families pay the cost. Back to policies that put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Back to policies that treat health care as only a privilege for the wealthy.

But it was this closing bit that gave me goosebumps.

America has tried these economic policies before. They do not lead to prosperity. They lead to inequity and economic injustice. And we are not going back. We are not going back. You're not taking us back. Our fight for the future is also a fight for freedom. Generations of Americans before us have led the fight for freedom from our founders, to our framers. To the abolitionists and the suffragettes. To the Freedom Riders and farmworkers.

In Kamala’s first campaign appearance and speech as a candidate for President, it was made clear that the new standard-bearer for the party is more than ready for the challenge ahead.

Now Trump is scrambling. He wasn’t ready for this, and the Press wasn’t either. It won’t be long though before the MAGA propaganda and mainstream media lie machine kicks into full gear against Kamala Harris.

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Onward,

Scott

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