(Washington) United States Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she was “damn afraid” that former Republican Donald Trump would return to power in November, calling for people to “fight” against this prospect.
“I’m damn scared, and that’s why I’m traveling the country […] We should all be afraid,” she said on the set of an ABC television program.
“But we must not run away from what scares us, we must fight against it,” said the 59-year-old Democrat.
These comments echo those of Michelle Obama: the former first lady recently said she was “terrified” by the possibility of a second Trump term.
The Democratic vice-president, President Joe Biden’s co-list for the November presidential election, is increasing her travels to mobilize young people, African-Americans and women, particularly around the defense of the right to abortion.
During the same show, Kamala Harris unleashed her blows against the Republican tycoon, the overwhelming favorite in the race for the Republican nomination.
“Here is a man, the former president, who presents himself promising, basically, to be a dictator. An individual who wants to return to the White House and who says he is “proud” to have deprived American women of the right to control their own bodies. An individual who wants to be commander in chief and who recognizes that he would exploit the Department of Justice,” she enumerated.
Donald Trump recently said he was “proud” of the role he played, by appointing conservative judges, in the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022.
This right has been guaranteed throughout the United States since the 1970s by the famous “Roe V. Wade” case law. Following the Court’s decision, many conservative US states banned voluntary terminations of pregnancies.
Defending the right to abortion is a major campaign focus for the vice-president.
“What Kamala does has a powerful impact on young women,” commented a former spokesperson for Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, reacting to this televised intervention on the conservatives’ favorite channel, Fox News.