Harris, Before CNN Interview Runs, Presses Attack Against Trump in Georgia

At a rally in Savannah, the vice president hit her rival over familiar topics like abortion rights and Project 2025, saying he represented a “full-on assault” on basic freedoms.

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech on Thursday in Savannah, Ga., touched on broad themes of democracy and increasing access to affordable health care and child care.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has spent the last few weeks trying to define herself and her life story for voters, turned on Thursday to describing the version of former President Donald J. Trump that she wants Americans to see, saying his candidacy represented a “full-on assault on hard-fought, hard-won freedoms and rights.”

At a campaign rally in Savannah, Ga., Ms. Harris accused him of wanting to curtail abortion access, cut Social Security and Medicare, and give tax breaks to big corporations and billionaires. She said his plan for across-the-board tariffs on imported goods amounted to an unfair tax on working families.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I will always put the middle-class and working-class families first,” Ms. Harris said to a crowd of thousands at a basketball arena. She added, “We’ve got some work to do, because we know Donald Trump has a very different plan.”

Her audience broke into chants of “We’re not going back,” which has quickly become a favorite slogan at her rallies.

Ms. Harris made her appearance hours before her first major interview since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee was set to be broadcast on CNN. She had faced rising pressure to hold an interview with a top journalist, with Republicans accusing her of hiding from tough questions.

In early clips of the interview released by CNN on Thursday afternoon, Ms. Harris pledged to appoint a Republican to her cabinet and curtly rejected Mr. Trump’s recent questioning of her racial identity.

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