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... as Battle for White House Deepens
As battle for the White House Deepens, the US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has launched an attack on Donald Trump, daring the Republican to debate with her face to face.
She spoke during her biggest campaign rally at Atlanta, Georgia.
The presumptive Democratic nominee is aiming to expand the party’s 2024 battleground map and appeal to young Black voters to support her.
In her 20-minute speech, she pledged that Americans “are not going back” to the “failed policies” of Trump.
“Now, the baton is in our hands,” Harris said to loud applause. “We have a fight in front of us… And we are the underdogs in this race.”
Harris’s nascent presidential bid took off following Biden’s July 21 exit from the race, with much of the party coalescing behind her and her campaign raising a staggering $200 million.
“The momentum in this race is shifting, and there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it,” she said.
The Republican nominee recently said he would forego political tradition and not debate Harris, and also unleashed a barrage of insults against his rival, calling her “crazy” and a “bum.”
“Well Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage, because as the saying goes, if you’ve got something to say, say it to my face,” Harris said.
Harris also repeated her popular line about how, as a former prosecutor and California attorney general going up against predators and fraudsters, she knows “Donald Trump’s type.”
“In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week,” she said.
With just 98 days before the election, Harris is under pressure to announce her vice presidential pick. Asked on Tuesday whether she had chosen one, Harris told reporters: “Not yet.”
She also attacked Trump, 78, over his “extreme abortion bans,” referring to restrictive new laws enacted in several states in the two years since the US Supreme Court — featuring three justices nominated by Trump — stripped constitutional protections for abortion.
