ATLANTA – Vice President Kamala Harris sharpened her attacks on former President Donald Trump Saturday night at a Get Out the Vote campaign rally in Atlanta.
Democrat Harris warned that Republican Trump intends to implement a menu of initiatives contained in Project 2025, published by the conservative Heritage Foundation last year. She said the list includes tax cuts that would primarily benefit the wealthy, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and tariffs on a host of foreign-made products that would drive up prices.
“It’s a detailed and dangerous blueprint for what Donald Trump will do if he’s elected president,” Harris told cheering supporters at the Lakewood Amphitheater.
Beyond Project 2025, Harris drew a sharp contrast between the two presidential candidates’ positions on abortion. She blamed Trump for a wave of severe abortion restrictions many states have passed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion because he appointed three of the justices on the winning side.
“More than one in three women live in a state with a Trump abortion ban … every state in the South including Georgia,” she said.
Harris brought up the death two years ago of Amber Thurman, a pregnant Georgia woman who died after seeking an emergency abortion. Medical care for Thurman was delayed because her doctors were worried about violating Georgia’s six-week abortion ban.
Thurman’s parents were in the audience at Saturday night’s rally.
“I promised Amber’s mother that we will always remember her story and speak her name,” Harris said.
Harris also went after Trump for remarks the former president made recently that he considers “the enemy from within” in America more dangerous than foreign adversaries.
“He says he would use the American military to go after American citizens,” she said.
Harris also pledged to promote an “opportunity economy” that would include a $6,000 tax credit for parents in the first year of their child’s life, a tax deduction of up to $50,000 for new small businesses, expanding Medicare coverage to help cover the cost of home health care for seniors, and a middle-class tax cut for 100 million Americans.
“I come from the middle class and will never forget where I came from,” she said.
Before Harris spoke, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Usher warmed up the crowd.
“We have an opportunity to choose a new generation of leadership for our country,” he said. “We need everyone to get out and support this campaign.”
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign called Harris’ appearance in Georgia a “desperate, last minute plea” to win the state’s 16 electoral votes.
“Georgia families remember what life was like four years ago – lower prices, more money in our pockets, no wars and a closed southern border,” said Morgan Ackley, Georgia communications director for Trump.
“Georgia will vote to send President Trump back to the White House this November.”
Harris did not mention illegal immigration during her 30-minute speech. Trump has made the need for border security a signature issue of his campaign.
In past interviews and speeches, Harris has criticized Trump for urging congressional Republicans to kill a bipartisan immigration reform bill earlier this year so he would be able to run on the issue.