Kamala Harris at campaign rally

Washington:

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is counting on the support of billionaires and major corporations while her campaign is powered by the people, Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday at her first election rally, a day after become the presumptive presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Party.

“Donald Trump has the support of billionaires and major corporations. He is negotiating access in exchange for campaign contributions. A few months ago, you all saw that, at Mar-a-Lago, he literally promised the big oil companies, the big oil lobbyists, he would accept their offer of $1 billion in campaign donations,” said Harris, 59, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“On the other hand, we are running a people-powered campaign. We just got some breaking news. We just had the best 24 hours of grassroots fundraising in presidential campaign history. Because we are a people-powered campaign, it’s so you know we’re going to be a people-first presidency,” Harris said at her first campaign rally, less than 50 hours after entering the race after President Joe Biden dropped out of 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 every person has the opportunity to not just survive, but to thrive,” she said amid to public applause.

“A future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every worker has the freedom to join a union, where every person has affordable health care, affordable child care and paid family leave. We believe in a future where every senior can Retire with dignity. So all of this means that building the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency, because here’s the thing: when our middle class is strong, America is strong,” she said.

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 intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations and make working families foot the bill,” Harris said.

“They intend to end the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to turn away people with pre-existing conditions. diabetes. America has tried these failed economic policies before, but we will not go back. And I will tell you why we are not going back,” she said.

“Because our fight is 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 all Americans have the ability to vote and have their votes counted,” Harris said.

“We, who believe that every person in our nation should have the freedom to live safe from the terror of gun violence, will finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban. We, who believe in reproductive freedom, will end Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and we won’t let their government tell them what to do,” she said.

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