US “Prepared To Flip The Web page” On Donald Trump, Says Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris declared Thursday that People are prepared to show the web page on Donald Trump and chart a brand new path for the nation, in her first main interview since her dramatic entry into November’s presidential election.

Harris, 59, aimed to stake out a centrist place on CNN, insisting that she will probably be robust on unlawful immigration and assist controversial oil and gasoline fracking — however not abandon her longtime liberal values.

The primary feminine and Black and South Asian vice chairman described Trump as “pushing an agenda and an setting that’s about diminishing the character and the energy of who we’re as People, actually dividing our nation.”

“I feel persons are prepared to show the web page on that,” she stated. “Persons are prepared for a brand new means ahead.”

The Democrat additionally stated that she would identify a Republican to her cupboard if she wins November’s election, in her joint CNN sit-down along with her operating mate Tim Walz.

Trump in the meantime branded Harris the “best flip-flopper” as he addressed a rally within the swing state of Michigan, earlier than mocking her look within the interview.

“She did not appear to be a pacesetter to me,” the Republican stated.

Harris rejected criticism that she has shifted positions on politically delicate points together with fracking, which she as soon as opposed however now helps, and unlawful migration over the Mexican border, the place she has taken a more durable line.

“As president I cannot ban fracking,” she stated — clearly aiming to settle the controversy in fossil-fuel-rich Pennsylvania, one of many important battleground states in what’s anticipated to be a decent election.

Addressing criticism that she had been too mushy on immigration — a core a part of Trump’s message — Harris stated that as president she would signal robust laws.

Harris is reaching for centrist voters nervous by immigration and gas prices. However in a nod to her left-leaning supporters, she insisted that she had not essentially shifted.

“My values haven’t modified,” Harris stated.

On one other hot-button subject on the US political panorama, Harris urged a ceasefire in Gaza, however informed CNN that she wouldn’t change President Joe Biden’s insurance policies for key US ally Israel, together with deliveries of weaponry.

Honeymoon interval?

Republicans had criticized Harris for not giving any interviews since Biden abruptly dropped out of the White Home race almost six weeks in the past, following mounting issues over his well being and age at 81.

Harris has loved a honeymoon interval with surging polls and file fundraising, however has additionally confronted scrutiny for protecting lots of her insurance policies imprecise as she pulls her marketing campaign collectively.

Harris gave the interview whereas on a marketing campaign bus tour of Georgia, one of many seven battleground states which might be anticipated to determine the November 5 election.

A lot of polls out Thursday confirmed Harris forward of Trump, if solely marginally, with a number of of them discovering elevated assist for Harris in battleground states.

A Bloomberg/Morning Seek the advice of ballot discovered Harris main in six out of the seven swing states whereas a Fox ballot additionally confirmed growing assist within the battlegrounds.

At a rally in Savannah on the finish of the two-day swing in Georgia, which Democrats flipped from Trump in 2020, she admitted it was “going to be a decent race till the very finish.”

Trump has himself been hitting the marketing campaign path arduous in latest days, after a interval the place the 78-year-old former president appeared to wrestle to search out his footing towards a brand new, youthful, feminine candidate.

Talking at an occasion in Potterville, Michigan on Thursday, Trump focused Harris on her immigration coverage shifts: “Now she’s saying, ‘Oh we need to construct a robust border.”

“The place has she been for 3 and a half years?”

Harris and Trump are set to face off of their pivotal first debate on September 10 in Philadelphia.

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