MILWAUKEE — Vice President Kamala Harris made her debut on the campaign trail as the likely Democratic nominee, vowing to spend the weeks ahead uniting the party to defeat Donald Trump.
Speaking at a high school on Tuesday, just miles away from where Republicans gathered for their convention last week, Harris leaned into her background as a prosecutor, pitching herself as the candidate built to defeat a convicted criminal. She reused a punchy line she unveiled this week — one that will no doubt become one of her go-tos on the campaign trail — that she knows “Donald Trump’s type,” as chants of “Lock him up” broke out in the crowd.
“I promise you, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week,” she said.
Harris’ first campaign rally signaled a more youthful, energetic and aggressive campaign, one designed to draw the kind of contrast Democrats widely believed Joe Biden could no longer deliver. Members of the party would often bemoan the president’s inability to launch a consistent, cogent message against the former president, a messaging breakdown they believe Harris is uniquely positioned to mend.
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