WATCH| Harris Pushes Plans For Future as Polls Show Tight Race With Trump in Georgia Showdown
Kamala Harris, alongside running mate Tim Walz, visited Savannah, Georgia, during a bus tour through the state's southeast. Speaking to a crowd of around 9,500 supporters, Harris emphasized that despite Georgia being a challenging state, it remains winnable in November. Urging attendees to ignore polls and focus on hard work, she energized the audience despite the rain-soaked day. The rally took place in an arena typically used for hockey games and concerts.
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00:00Good afternoon!
00:02Good afternoon, Savannah!
00:10Good afternoon!
00:12Oh, good afternoon!
00:14Oh, it's good to be back in Savannah!
00:17Good afternoon!
00:21Can we please hear it for Katelyn and her incredible...
00:26...for her incredible leadership.
00:31Look, when I look out at our young leaders like Katelyn, I know our future is so bright.
00:37It is so bright.
00:40I want to thank Mayor Johnson.
00:43Thank you for your...there you are.
00:46We've been hanging out for the last two days.
00:49Mayor, I thank you so very much for your leadership. Thank you.
00:52Congresswoman Nekima Williams, the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
00:59For your friendship and your sisterhood.
01:03And to all the leaders with us today, good afternoon, good afternoon.
01:09Good afternoon.
01:12I also bring greetings from our president and a great friend of the state of Georgia, Joe Biden.
01:23And let us also send our love to the great president from the state of Georgia, Jimmy Carter.
01:38So, Georgia, I love you back. I love you back.
01:44And we have 68 days to go until this election.
01:5068 days to go.
01:56And I think you all have spent your time here, sacrificing all your other obligations to be here together...
02:03...us as one community, knowing we all have so much more in common than what separates us.
02:10And I thank you for taking that time.
02:15And listen, so we're here to speak truth.
02:21And one of the things that we know, this is going to be a tight race until the very end.
02:27So let's not pay too much attention to the polls, because we are running as the underdog.
02:35And we have some hard work ahead of us, but we like hard work.
02:40Hard work is good work. Hard work is good work.
02:47And with your help, we are going to win this November.
02:53We are going to win this November. Yes, we will.
03:02So look, Georgia, let me say, I'm no stranger to tough fights.
03:08Before I was elected Vice President, before I was elected a United States Senator...
03:13...I was an elected Attorney General, and before that, an elected District Attorney.
03:22And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor.
03:26So every day, in the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and I spoke five words.
03:35Kamala Harris for the people.
03:45My entire career, I've only had one client, the people.
03:51I stood for women and children against predators who abused them.
03:55I took on the big banks and delivered $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure.
04:06I fought against cartels who traffic in guns, drugs, and human beings.
04:11And I stood up for veterans and students being scammed by big for-profit colleges.
04:18For workers who were being cheated out of the wages they were due.
04:23And for seniors facing elder abuse.
04:27And I will tell you, those fights were not easy.
04:31And neither were the elections that put me in those offices.
04:36But we never gave up.
04:39Because the future is always in our hands.
04:43We never gave up.
04:44Because the future is always worth fighting for.
04:52Always.
04:55And that is the fight we are in right now, a fight for America's future.
05:04We fight for a future with affordable child care, paid leave, and affordable health care.
05:18And on that last subject, let's finally expand Medicaid in Georgia.
05:24So people can take their child to a doctor or go to an emergency room without going into medical debt.
05:39We fight for a future where we build what I call an opportunity economy.
05:47So that every American has the opportunity to own a home, to start a business, and to build wealth and intergenerational wealth.
06:06And a future where we lower the cost of living for America's families.
06:13So when I was Attorney General, I went after price-fixing schemes.
06:19And, love you back, love you back.
06:24And I will tell you, when we get this done together, my friend, and when I am President,
06:31I will take on the bad actors who exploit a crisis to rip off consumers on everyday items.
06:42Who rip off consumers on everyday items like groceries.
06:46I will take on big pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs and insulin for all Americans.
06:57I will take on the high cost of housing and work with developers to cut the red tape and build millions of new homes.
07:08And I will give 100 million Americans a tax cut including $6,000 to families during the first year of their child's life.
07:25Understanding folks just need a little help from time to time.
07:30And it's not about just getting by, it's about getting ahead.
07:34$6,000 in the first year of a child's life to help pay for that car seat or the crib or the baby clothes.
07:48And unlike Donald Trump, I will always put the middle class and working class families first.
07:58Always.
08:01I come from the middle class, I know what I'm talking about.
08:18And Savannah, so, but we got some work to do.
08:23Okay, we got some work to do because we know Donald Trump has a very different plan.
08:29He has a very different plan.
08:35Just look at his Project 2025 agenda.
08:41Right.
08:43If he is elected, Donald Trump intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations.
08:51He intends, he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.
09:00And he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities.
09:09And it will cost, the economists will tell you, it will cost a typical American family nearly $4,000 a year.
09:18So Georgia, on top of all of this, if Donald Trump wins in November, he intends to end the Affordable Care Act.
09:32To take us back to a time when insurance companies, we're not going back.
09:38We're not going back.
09:44We're going forward.
09:48And the reason we know we can't go back, to your point, the reason we know we can't go back,
09:56on the issue of the Affordable Care Act, remember what that was like before we had the Affordable Care Act?
10:02Remember when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions?
10:09Remember what that was like, children with asthma, breast cancer survivors, grandparents with diabetes?
10:16So yeah, we're not going back.
10:18We're not going back.
10:20We're not going back.
10:24And we will move forward.
10:32Ours is a fight for the future.
10:37And it is a fight for freedom.
10:42Like the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body
10:49and not have her government tell her what to do.
10:55And understand how we got here.
11:02When he was president, Donald Trump hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court
11:09with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did, just as he intended.
11:20And now, more than 20 states have a Trump abortion ban, including Georgia.
11:30In fact, every state in the South, except for Virginia, has a Trump abortion ban.
11:38And think about that.
11:40Many, with no exceptions even for rape and incest.
11:44That is immoral. Immoral.
11:49And let us all agree, one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs
11:59to agree the government should not be telling her what to do.
12:05Come on. Come on.
12:10Come on.
12:19And if he wins, Donald Trump will go further.
12:22He will sign a national abortion ban, you best believe.
12:27And he would create a national anti-abortion coordinator
12:31and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions.
12:36It's right there in Project 2025.
12:41I've said it before, and I'll say it again, simply put, they are out of their minds.
12:50Why don't they trust women?
12:59Will we trust women?
13:05And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as President of the United States,
13:12I will proudly sign it into law.
13:17Proudly.
13:23And across our nation, in addition to that, we are witnessing a full-on assault
13:31on other hard-fought, hard-won fundamental freedoms.
13:46Let me just say something.
14:14Hold on. Hold up. Hold up for a second.
14:16Hold up for a second. Let me just say something.
14:19Let me just say something.
14:21We are fighting for a democracy.
14:24Everyone has a right and should have their voices heard.
14:29I am speaking now, but on the subject, I will say this.
14:33The President and I are working around the clock.
14:36We've got to get a hostage deal done and get a ceasefire done now.
14:51So back to this election and Donald Trump.
14:56So in addition to the fight on the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one's own body,
15:03I have been traveling our country and the people of Georgia know what I know.
15:08There is a full-on assault on hard-fought, hard-won freedoms and rights,
15:17including the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence,
15:28and an attack on the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.
15:46And we will fight against all of that,
15:52including the freedom to live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.
15:58Here's the thing.
16:00Generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom.
16:07Now, Savannah, the baton is in our hands.
16:14So we who believe in the sacred freedom to vote will finally pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
16:28and the Freedom to Vote Act.
16:31We who believe in the freedom to live safe from gun violence will finally pass universal background checks
16:40and red flag laws.
16:50So much is on the line in this election.
16:55So much is on the line.
16:58And understand, this is not 2016 or 2020.
17:04Things are different.
17:06A lot is the same when we think about the issues,
17:10and there is significant differences.
17:13The stakes in 2024 are even higher.
17:17Because consider that the United States Supreme Court recently just basically told the former president
17:25that going forward he will be effectively immune no matter what he does in the White House.
17:33Now, just imagine.
17:39Well, the courts are going to take care of that.
17:41We're going to get him out of there.
17:43We're going to elect ourselves and everybody here in November.
17:51But I mention the Supreme Court ruling because understand what this means.
17:58Just imagine, before there was at least the threat of consequence.
18:05Understand what it now means and imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.
18:12Imagine what that means when you consider he has openly vowed that if re-elected on day one he will be a dictator.
18:22That he would end the independence of the Department of Justice so he could have unchecked power
18:33and seek vengeance against people who disagree with him.
18:37He even called for termination of the United States Supreme, the supreme land of our nation, the United States Constitution.
18:53Think about what that means and let us be very clear.
18:57Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States
19:04should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.
19:14Never again.
19:19So it all comes down to this.
19:21We are all here together, spending this time together because we love our country.
19:28We love our country.
19:30We love our country.
19:34And we know the privilege and pride, the privilege and pride that comes with being American.
19:43And I do believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country.
19:55That is how we realize the promise of America.
20:00Georgia, for the past two election cycles, voters in this very state, you who are here, have delivered.
20:10You sent two extraordinary senators to Washington, D.C.
20:21You sent President Biden and me to the White House.
20:26You showed up, you knocked on doors, you registered folks to vote, and you made it happen.
20:38You did that. You did that.
20:41And so now we are asking you to do it again.
20:48Let's do it again. Let's do it again.
20:55So Savannah, are you ready to make your voices heard?
21:02Do we believe in freedom?
21:06Do we believe in opportunity?
21:10Do we believe in the promise of America?
21:15And are we ready to fight for it?
21:20And when we fight, we win.
21:24God bless you and God bless the United States of America.