Harris assails Trump for hateful rhetoric

Elections 2020

"This president is not trying to make America great, he's trying to make America hate it."

Kamala Harris stepped up his frontal attack on Donald Trump late Sunday night, condemning the president for attacking communities of color and denigrating African countries with "foul language that no president should talk about".

Harris, taken aback by the violence she suffered against Attorney General Bill Barr, pointed to Trump's reaction to the violent protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Democratic presidential candidate told thousands of people at the NAACP dinner-reception for the Freedom Fund in Detroit.

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While Harris did not hesitate to face Trump in the election campaign, the Californian senator has largely focused on what she calls dangerous politics, even if Democratic rivals like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden attack the president for reasons moral and moral. Harris's remarks in Detroit have represented an escalation in his sharp rhetoric against Trump. It was also an opportunity, albeit obliquely, for Harris to break into the persistent media narrative that it would take a white male candidate to convince white voters of the Midwestern working class.

Harris directly accused Trump of attacking communities and colored leaders. She talked about Trump's "war" to destroy Obamacare. And she accused him of fueling sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia.

"Let's talk about truth today, this president is not trying to make America great; he's trying to make America hate it, "Harris said. "So it's essential for our security, our dignity and our unity as a nation when I say," We need a new president. "

Harris arrived in Michigan after asking Barr questions at the Senate Judiciary Hearing last week. The viral moment helped support the main theory of his campaign: that she, a career prosecutor, can compete with the impudent president and use her training in the courtroom to pursue the case against her policy.

Harris had largely refrained from asking questions about the 2020 electoral map, especially when asked how Democrats could appeal to white voters of the Midwestern working class. But during her first long journey into the Rust Belt as a presidential candidate, Harris began to expose what she – a black-coast senator and a Liberal state – thinks she's saying. she has been absent from the usual debate since Trump swept Hillary Clinton. battlefields in 2016.

"Experts have had a conversation about" eligibility "and" who can talk to the Midwest? Harris said, arguing that the focus of the debate tends to place the Midwest in a "simplistic box" constituencies, including women and African Americans, her campaign is counting on her to propel her into the primaries.

"That excludes the people in this room who helped build cities like Detroit," Harris told the audience, mostly black. "This excludes female workers who are up all day – many of them work without equal pay".

Harris continued, arguing that the conversation suggests too often certain voters will only vote for certain candidates – regardless of whether their ideas help all families.

"It's a short-sighted vision. That's wrong, "she said. "And voters deserve better."

"Our party is not white or black, neither Hispanic nor Asian, nor immigrant nor indigenous," she added. "It's all of us."