Kamala Harris links Trump to Project 2025 in first campaign rally: ‘We can’t go back’
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Harris outlines a campaign built around abortion rights, voting rights and making the case against the former president

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.

Harris, who secured enough delegate pledges to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination within a little over 24 hours after announcing her candidacy, linked Trump to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-backed plan for his administration, and one that his campaign is now furiously trying to distance itself from.

“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. We know we got to take that seriously,” Harris said. ”Can you believe they put that thing in writing? Read it. It’s 900 pages.”

The plan proposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, tax breaks to corporations that will force “working families to foot the bill” and abolishes the Affordable Care Act, which “will take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions,” Harris said.

  • @[email protected]
    4•5 months ago

    Yeah. It’s just too bad the democrats are adopting the republican stance on that to somehow show republican voters that their representatives aren’t actually committed to keeping those promises so much as being contrarian to democrats, as if they need any more proof of that fact and will suddenly see the light, rather than simply challenging them on their outright lies and winning over the people that actually value evidence-based rhetoric.

    • @CoggyMcFee
      -1•5 months ago

      That’s not actually what has happened. What has happened is that we have a very real border problem going on, and we have a divided Congress, and Congress is the government body that can actually do something about the border.

      Despite the divide, a bipartisan border bill was drafted and was set to go through, and at the last moment Trump told the Republicans (publicly) to tank the bill because it would make Biden and the Democrats look good.

      So, with that hope dead, but with the border crisis worsening, Biden had a few not-good options for things he could actually do as the executive branch. But doing nothing was probably worse, so we ended up where we now are. Don’t let the GOP ploy of shutting down progress to make Democrats look bad be a success.