No disasters or surprises as Democratic nominee spoke at length to CNN in Georgia alongside running mate Tim Walz
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have been on a two-day bus tour of Savannah, Georgia . Photograph: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Imagesmade her way back to a rainy and thunderstruck Washington on Thursday night, she could have been forgiven had she found herself whistling the old Ray Charles staple about Georgia .
“The road to the White house goes through Georgia and the lane to that road goes through Savannah and coastal Georgia said mayor Van Johnson, who noted that Harris had visited the state as recently as February. I don’t think ever in our history and we’re 291 years old, have we ever had a president of or vice-president twice in the same year, let alone six months.
She promised that day one of her administration will open the ‘opportunity economy’ – bringing down the cost of everyday goods, investing in America’s small businesses, extending a tax credit to families for the first six years of a child’s life for $6,000 and delivering affordable housing.
In defending her record on immigration, she simply reminded the audience that Republican congressional representatives had voted against the comprehensive bipartisan bill which would have brought 1,500 new agents to the border because Donald Trump instructed them to do so. “I’m talking about an era that started about a decade ago where there is some suggestion – warped I believe it to be – where the measure of a strength of a leader depends on who you beat down instead of where I believe most Americans are, which is to believe that the true measure of a strength of a leader is who you lift up.”
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