Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage in Wisconsin for her first rally as a candidate on Tuesday, July 23. With high energy, the 2024 hopeful laid out her campaign’s promises and goals, making a virtual pro and con list, with the left clearly in the pros column and Donald Trump in the cons.
Kamala Harris Lays It Out – But One Thing Notably Absent
Harris began the rally by praising President Joe Biden and the work he has accomplished, saying that his last three and a half years have been “unmatched in modern history. In one term as president, he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who served two terms in office.”
Mentioning her role as a former courtroom prosecutor and attorney general in California, she said she “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.”
Then Harris really hammered down, putting her record – not her record as VP – in contrast with the former president’s. She claimed to have taken on one of the largest for-profit colleges in the Golden State that was scamming students while Trump “ran a for-profit college that scammed students.” The VP alluded to specializing in cases that involved sexual abuse: “Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse.” Harris said she took on the big Wall Street banks and held them accountable for fraud and that Trump “was just found guilty for fraud on 34 counts.”
It is too early for there to be an official slogan, but there were some hints throughout the rally. Harris said her team is running a “people-powered” campaign and that “we will be a people-first presidency.” If elected, she said her presidency would be focused on the future, unlike Trump and his supporters, who she claimed are concentrating on the past. Some of those future goals include affordable healthcare, getting rid of poverty for children, making it so every worker has the freedom to join a union, affordable childcare, and paid family leave. “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency,” she added.
Harris touched on several hot-button topics that so many Americans are concerned about, including abortion. However, one main issue was notably absent: illegal immigration. As the Border Czar, she presided over a tsunami of illegal migrants crossing the southern border in record numbers, a total so high that even her own party is concerned. However, as Liberty Nation News Editor-in-Chief Mark Angelides explained, this rally was not really about reaching out to the people:
“This was not a speech to the attendees; it was a sop to the Fourth Estate that they could quote and insist that she speaks in a clear communicative manner. It was a performance for the media so they could provide a fig leaf to her unimpressive record.”
With just over 100 days left until the election, Kamala Harris has a political mountain to climb. She still has to lock down the nomination and announce a potential running mate. Then, she must prepare for the anticipated presidential debate against Trump. In her debut candidate speech, the hopeful mentioned only her accomplishments preceding her vice presidential role. Perhaps in the future, she will be forced to address her time as vice president and her plans for illegal immigration.
