Harris, 59, plans to talk about her life as the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother.
US Vice President Kamala Harris will make the most important speech of her political life on Thursday when she accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for president a month after the party forced President Joe Biden to exit the race.
In her speech Harris, 59, plans to talk about her life as the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother and lay out her plans to tackle rising costs and advance personal freedoms, including abortion rights, aides said.“There is a guy who wants to divide us, and she will make the case that we simply cannot let that happen, that this is America and everybody can rise together,” Cedric Richmond, campaign co-chair and longtime adviser to Harris, told Reuters.
Whether Beyonce will appear on stage on Thursday is a matter of speculation in convention hallways. The campaign declined to comment.Harris has raised a record-breaking $500 million in a month and has narrowed the gap or taken the lead against Trump in many opinion polls of battleground states. Nationwide, she leads Trump 46.6% to 43.8%, according to a compilation of polls by FiveThirtyEight.
“It survived because enough people came together to continue our work to building a more perfect union and that is what she is going to lay out,” said Clyburn, a powerful voice within the Democratic Party.Harris has yet to articulate much of her vision for the country, and Republicans say Democrats have spent much of their time attacking Trump rather than explaining how they would govern.
Aides say she will discuss her plans to cut taxes for most Americans, boost the housing supply and ban “price gouging” by grocers. Her campaign has also proposed raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
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