Mambo yameshaanza kupamba moto kwenye mpambano mpya wa Trump vs Harris. Ambaye ameanza kuongelea utofauti mkubwa kati yao…amesema maneno hayo hapo chini…
Kama wengi wenu mnajua, kabla sijachaguliwa kama makamu wa rais, kabla sijachaguliwa kama seneta wa Marekani, nilikuwa mwanasheria mkuu aliyechaguliwa wa California, nilitaja kwamba kabla ya hapo nilikuwa mwendesha mashtaka wa mahakama," Harris alisema. "Katika majukumu hayo nilichukua wahalifu wa kila aina. Wanyanyasaji ambao waliwanyanyasa wanawake. Walaghai waliorarua walaji.
Walaghai waliovunja sheria ili kujinufaisha. Kwa hivyo nisikie ninaposema najua watu aina ya Donald Trump."
Harris kisha akalinganisha na kulinganisha uzoefu wake wa awali na matatizo ya hivi majuzi ya kisheria ya Trump na uhusiano wake.
"Kama mwendesha mashtaka mchanga, nilipokuwa katika ofisi ya wakili wa Wilaya ya Alameda huko California, nilijishughulisha na kesi zinazohusu unyanyasaji wa kingono," Harris aliendelea. "Donald Trump alikutwa na hatia na mahakama kwa kufanya unyanyasaji wa kijinsia.
Nikiwa mwanasheria mkuu wa California, nilichukua chuo kikuu cha faida nchini kwetu na kukiondoa kibiashara. Donald Trump aliendesha chuo cha faida, Chuo Kikuu cha Trump. , ambacho kililazimishwa kulipa dola milioni 25 kwa wanafunzi ilichowalaghai angetoa zabuni zao kwa mchango wa kampeni ya $ 1000000000, nilipambana na benki kubwa za Wall Street na kushinda $ 20 bilioni kwa familia za California, nikiwa na benki hizo kuwajibika kwa ulaghai ulaghai."
Maneno ya Harris, na hata kujifungua kwake, yalikuwa muziki kwenye masikio ya baadhi ya Wanademokrasia.
"Hotuba nzuri na iliyowasilishwa vizuri kutoka kwa @VP katika kile ambacho sasa ni Makao Makuu ya kampeni YAKE, ikitofautisha sana na Trump, maono yao na maadili," David Axelrod, mwanamkakati mkuu wa zamani wa Rais Barack Obama, aliandika katika chapisho kwenye X. . "Mchezo umeendelea!"
In remarks delivered Monday to the staff at what is now her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Harris offered a preview of how she will go after former President Donald Trump should she secure the Democratic presidential nomination.
"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 of California, I mentioned that before that I was a courtroom prosecutor," Harris said. "In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused 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."
Harris then compared and contrasted her prior experience with Trump's recent legal woes and affiliations.
"As a young prosecutor, when I was in the Alameda County district attorney's office in California, I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse," Harris continued. "Donald Trump was found liable by a jury for committing sexual abuse. As attorney general of California, I took on one of our country's largest for-profit colleges and put it out of business. Donald Trump ran a for-profit college, Trump University, that was forced to pay $25 million to the students it scammed. As district attorney, to go after polluters, I created one of the first environmental justice units in our nation. Donald Trump stood in Mar-a-Lago and told Big Oil lobbyists he would do their bidding for a $1 billion campaign contribution. During the foreclosure crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won $20 billion for California families, holding those banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was just found guilty of 34 counts of fraud."
Harris's words, and her even delivery, were music to some Democrats' ears.
"Great, well-delivered kickoff speech from the @VP at what is now HER campaign HQ, drawing a sharp contrast with Trump, their visions and values," David Axelrod, former chief strategist for President Barack Obama, wrote
in a post on X. "Game on!"
Biden announced Tuesday that he will address the nation at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday.