US Vice President Kamala Harris stated Wednesday she was “scared as heck” that Donald Trump would return to the White Home within the November election and urged Democrats to “battle again.”
Her feedback got here after Trump stormed to victory on Monday within the Iowa caucuses, step one within the Republican nomination race to problem President Joe Biden later this 12 months.
“I’m scared as heck, which is why I am touring our nation… we should always all be scared,” she informed The View, an all female-hosted discuss present on the ABC community.
However the 59-year-old Harris added: “We do not run away from one thing once we’re scared, we battle again towards it.”
Harris was responding to a query about stories former president Barack Obama was involved with the Biden marketing campaign, and to feedback by ex-first woman Michelle Obama saying she was “terrified” of a second Trump time period.
Biden has stepped up direct assaults on Trump not too long ago, warning that the twice-impeached former president — who faces 91 legal indictments — poses a risk to US democracy.
The president’s reelection marketing campaign has been giving Harris an more and more distinguished function because it seeks mobilize Black, feminine and younger voters for this 12 months’s essential election.
Harris is a triple-trailblazer as first feminine, first Black and first South Asian vp, and has been a giant fundraising draw for Democrats.
However she suffers from low approval scores and is a repeated goal for Republican assaults saying she’s unqualified to take over as president if something occurred to the 81-year-old Biden.
Subsequent week Harris will embark on a nationwide tour to advertise reproductive freedoms as Democrats search to make abortion rights a key difficulty within the 2024 race.
Harris kicks off the tour within the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin on Monday, coinciding with the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court docket’s Roe v. Wade choice that granted a constitutional proper to abortion.
Trump has repeatedly taken credit score for the courtroom overturning the landmark ruling final 12 months, as he appointed a collection of conservative judges to the bench throughout his first time period.
Harris acquired reward on her abortion messaging from an unlikely quarter — Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
“What Kamala is doing, proper or fallacious, may be very highly effective amongst younger girls,” she informed conservative Fox Information.
