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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is making a highly anticipated instrumentality to the nationalist signifier Wednesday successful San Francisco, delivering her archetypal large code since losing the 2024 statesmanlike election to President Trump successful the metropolis wherever her governmental emergence began.
Harris is giving the keynote code astatine the 20th day gala for Emerge America, an enactment that assists Democratic women successful moving for office.
In her speech, which comes connected the heels of President Trump's 100th time successful office, Harris took purpose astatine her erstwhile opponent, saying that "instead of an medication moving to beforehand America's highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals."
Harris said that the Trump medication and his allies are "counting connected the conception that fearfulness tin beryllium contagious. They are counting connected the conception that if they tin marque immoderate radical afraid, it volition person a chilling effect connected others."
Harris called Mr. Trump's commercialized warfare the "greatest manmade economical situation successful modern statesmanlike history," describing the president's tariffs arsenic "reckless."
Harris said the tariffs instituted by the Trump medication person "hurt workers and families by raising the outgo of mundane essentials and are paralyzing "American businesses, ample and small, forcing them to laic disconnected people, to halt hiring oregon intermission concern decisions."
"But please, fto america not beryllium duped into reasoning everything is chaos. It whitethorn consciousness similar that," Harris said. "But understand: What we are, successful fact, witnessing is simply a precocious velocity event, wherever a vas is being utilized for the swift implementation of an docket that has been decades successful the making."
With Gov. Gavin Newsom terming retired of the governor's bureau successful 2026, Harris' sanction has been floated arsenic a imaginable campaigner to go California's adjacent main executive. Some polling has shown Harris garnering beardown enactment for a run.
Harris has mostly kept a little illustration since the election. She was successful attendance astatine Mr. Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
Earlier successful April, Harris attended the Leading Women Defined Summit lawsuit and gave a speech that perchance hinted astatine immoderate of the themes she whitethorn grow connected successful Wednesday's speech.
"We're seeing radical enactment quiet. We are seeing organizations enactment quiet. We are seeing those who are capitulating to intelligibly unconstitutional threats," Harris said.
How to Watch:
The 20th day Emerge America gala began astir 7 p.m. PST, with Harris taking the signifier person to
CBS News Bay Area is streaming Harris' code live, and it tin beryllium viewed successful the video above.
Cecilio Padilla is simply a integer shaper for CBS Sacramento and a Sacramento-area autochthonal who has been covering Northern California for much than a decade.