> Kamala Harris leans into role as prosecutor as she challenges Trump at Atlanta rally
Kamala Harris leans into role as prosecutor as she challenges Trump at Atlanta rally
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Kamala Harris is leaning into her record as a prosecutor, telling thousands of supporters in Atlanta that her experience in the courtroom, as district attorney and then California attorney general makes her ready to take on Republican Donald Trump.
"In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds," she said. "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.”
Harris said: "In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day.”
She used the opening minutes of her Atlanta rally to talk up her credentials on the U.S.-Mexico border -- looking to defuse an issue former President Donald Trump and top Republicans see as a winning one for them.
Harris talked about walking drug tunnels on the border as a prosecutor in California and said Trump “has been talking a big game about securing the border” but that he “doesn’t walk the walk.”
She recalled Trump opposing a bipartisan border security package in the Senate and said the former president “tanked” it “to win an election.”
“Donald Trump does not care about border security he only cares about himself,” Harris said. "When I am president, I will work to actually solve the problem."
She vowed to help revive that legislative package, see it through Congress and sign it if she beats Trump in November.
The Vice President promised she would address "price gouging" on day one.
Harris says "the momentum in this race is shifting," and she argues that "Donald Trump is feeling it" and showing it because Trump is equivocating on whether and when to debate Harris.
"Well, Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider and meet me on the debate stage, because as the saying goes, if you've got something to say ...," Harris said, before being drowned out by thousands of cheering supporters.