2024 US presidential election: Ms Harris will soon embark on a tour to promote reproductive freedoms. (Deposit)
Washington:
US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday she was “scared” that Donald Trump would return to the White House in November’s election and urged Democrats to “fight back”. His comments come after Trump claimed victory Monday in the Iowa caucuses, the first stop in the race for the Republican nomination to challenge President Joe Biden later this year.
“I’m terribly scared, that’s why I’m traveling to our country…we should all be scared,” she told The View, an all-female talk show on ABC.
But Harris, 59, added: “We don’t run away from something when we’re afraid, we fight against it.”
Harris was responding to a question about reports that former President Barack Obama was concerned about the Biden campaign, and comments from former first lady Michelle Obama that she was “terrified” of a second Trump term.
Biden has recently stepped up his direct attacks on Trump, warning that the twice-impeached former president – who faces 91 criminal indictments – poses a threat to American democracy.
The president’s re-election campaign has given Harris an increasingly prominent role as she seeks to mobilize black, female and young voters for this year’s crucial elections.
Harris is a triple trailblazer as the first woman, first Black and first South Asian vice president, and has been a major fundraiser for Democrats.
But she suffers from low approval ratings and is a repeated target of Republican attacks, saying she is not qualified to take over the presidency if something happened to Biden, 81.
Next week, Harris will begin a national tour to promote reproductive freedoms as Democrats seek to make abortion rights a key issue in the 2024 race.
Harris begins his tour in the swing state of Wisconsin on Monday, coinciding with the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade of the Supreme Court which grants a constitutional right to abortion.
Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the court overturning last year’s landmark ruling, appointing a series of conservative judges to the bench during his first term.
Harris received praise for her message on abortion from an unlikely side: former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
“What Kamala does, good or bad, is very powerful among young women,” she said on the conservative Fox News channel.
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