Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the closing arguments in her presidential campaign in Georgia Saturday afternoon, likely her last appearance in the Peach State since replacing incumbent President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.
“We have three days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes,” Harris told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in the parking lot of the Atlanta Civic Center. “We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump. … It is time for a new generation of leadership in America.”
Harris has headlined a series of rallies in the swing state of Georgia in recent weeks. Georgia is one of seven battleground states where what has been a tight race against the Republican former president likely will be decided.
On Saturday, Harris focused on a combination of themes she has used throughout the campaign, warning that Trump poses a threat to American democracy while countering with what she wants to do if elected president.
“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe the people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said. “He wants to put them in jail. I will give them a seat at the table.”
Harris said her top priority as president would be to bring down the cost of living by cutting taxes for 100 million middle-class Americans, imposing the first-ever federal ban on price gouging, extending Medicare to cover the costs of home health care, and lowering the costs of child care.
On the other hand, she said, Trump is advocating tax cuts for the wealthy, to be paid for with a national sales tax in the form of a 20% tariff on all goods imported into the U.S.
“My plan will strengthen the economy,” Harris said. “His plan will weaken it.”
Harris attacked Trump for nominating three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court he knew would vote to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, which has led to restrictive laws on abortion in Georgia and every other Southern state except Virginia. She said Trump would go further if elected to a second term in the White House by pushing for a national abortion ban, a charge he has denied.
Just as Trump often doesn’t mention the abortion issue at his rallies, Harris didn’t talk about illegal immigration on Saturday. Trump has promised to secure the U.S. border with Mexico and deport millions who came to this country illegally.
“Her policies have … allowed millions of illegal immigrants to cross our wide-open border and dangerous drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities,” the Trump campaign wrote in a statement issued Saturday. “That’s why Georgians are ready to elect President Trump on Tuesday to fix our problems and fire Kamala Harris.”
Trump is scheduled to return to Georgia Sunday for a rally in Macon, probably his last stop in the Peach State before Election Day.
