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“I choose the love of my country over my party. I choose the noble responsibility of my civic duty. I choose my conscience because it reminds me of what I value as a citizen. I choose to stand with my neighbors against those who would lie to them, undermine their freedoms, turn neighbor against neighbor for the sake of one man. I choose a leader who, despite our political differences, values us more than herself.”
— Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele announced that he voted for Kamala Harris for president.
“Today I am pulling my stool up to the political poker table to throw my chips all in: America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States,”
— Democratic pundit James Carville, writing in the New York Times.<.h2>
“He is ducking debates and canceling interviews… His own campaign team recently said it’s because of exhaustion. If you’re exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises real questions about whether you are fit for the toughest job in the world.”
— Kamala Harris, at a campaign rally, about Donald Trump.
“Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”
— Kamala Harris, responding to Trump supporters heckling her at a rally.
“The man is really quite weak. He’s weak. It’s a sign of weakness that you want to please dictators and seek their flattery and favor.”
— Kamala Harris, quoted by the New York Times, on Donald Trump.
“He considers anyone who doesn’t support him or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country. This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.”
— Kamala Harris, at her rally in northwestern Pennsylvania, called Trump a serious threat to American democracy who is “out for unchecked power,” reports the Associated Press.
“He’s played through this really old entire playbook where there’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go. And we should be prepared for that, we should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth… I think he’s gonna lie.”
— Kamala Harris, on The Rickey Smiley Show, talking about what Donald Trump will do in the debate.
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”
— Donald Trump, in an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, about Vice President Kamala Harris.
28,000
“The Biden campaign said that more than 28,000 people signed up to volunteer for the first time after President Biden dropped out and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris,” the New York Times reports.
“I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.”
— “Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her past as a prosecutor on Monday in her first campaign appearance since President Biden dropped his re-election bid, saying her law enforcement background would help her defeat a rival who is a convicted criminal,” the New York Times reports.