By Katherine Tinsley
4:17am PDT, May 6, 2025
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Kamala Harris might've lost the 2024 presidential election, but the former vice president hasn't given up on highlighting
Donald Trump's shortcomings.
On Wednesday, April 30, Harris took aim at the Republican president while speaking at Emerge America's 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco, Calif.
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"We all know President [Donald] Trump and his administration and their allies are counting on the notion that fear can be contagious," Kamala Harris began her speech. "They are counting on the notion that if they make some people afraid, it will have a chilling effect on others."
"But what they're overlooking, what they have overlooked… is that fear is not the only thing that's contagious," she continued, adding that "courage is contagious."
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Since his inauguration, Donald Trump's economic policies have sparked concerns about a potential recession. However, Kamala Harris urged supporters to continue to believe in a better future.
She highlighted "the courage of Americans who are banding together in the face of the greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history."
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Donald Trump campaigned on his "America first initiative," but the president's vision prioritizes deglobalization.
Kamala Harris called out "Americans across the political spectrum who are declaring that the president's reckless tariffs hurt workers and families by raising the cost of everyday essentials, devastate the retirement accounts that people spent a lifetime paying into, and paralyze American businesses, large and small, forcing them to lay off people, to stop hiring or pause investment decisions."
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Kamala Harris lauded protestors, highlighting "the courage of Americans we are seeing who are rallying at Social Security offices to protect their hard-earned benefits, of Americans who are speaking out to say, it is not okay to violate court orders."
"[It's] not okay," she continued. "It is not okay to detain and disappear American citizens, or anyone, without due process."
