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Kamala Harris seemingly referred to Donald Trump as a predator "who abused women," among other things, in her first speech since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
She spoke to campaign staff at her Delaware election headquarters on Monday after walking out to Beyoncé's song Freedom and quickly set the tone by taking a jab at Trump.
Harris said: "I, together with you, will do everything in my power to unite our Democratic Party, to unite our nation and to win this election.
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"As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned, of California. Before that I was a courtroom prosecutor.
"In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds."
As the room erupted into laughter and cheers, Harris continued: "Predators who abuse women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type."
Trump has denied all legal allegations against him.
Trump's campaign team told Newsweek: "Just as Donald Trump fired Joe Biden, he will demonstrate to the world he can fire Dangerously liberal Kamala as well. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat not just one Democrat nominee for president, but two—in the same year! In every public poll conducted, battleground and national, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris by the same—if not more, than Joe Biden. Same year—same people—same record of failure—same result."
The former U.S. president has faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against women, including from the Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Trump, who has not faced criminal charges for any of these claims, denies them all. He and his supporters have frequently called them politically motivated attacks.
In Harris' speech on Monday, she praised Biden's achievements, calling her role with him in government "the greatest honor of (her) life" and doubled down on drawing a line between her and Trump.
She said: "We have 106 days until election day and in that time, we have some hard work to do.
"Our campaign has always been about two different versions of what we see as the future of our country.
"One focuses on the future, the other focuses on the past. Donald Trump wants to take our country backwards…We believe in a brighter future that makes room for all Americans."
This was Harris' first speech as the potential Democratic candidate and she seems to have set the tone for gender and the treatment of women to be strong themes of her campaign.
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