After losing in November’s presidential election in November, former vice president and potential gubernatorial candidate Kamala Harris condemned the rollback of fundamental rights under President Trump on Thursday and urged people to prioritize self-care and commit to actively participate in the fight to protect constitutional protection.
“If we don’t take care of ourselves and each other, we can’t go there to fight,” she said at the National Black Women’s Conference at Oceanfront Resort in Dana Point. “I’ll see you there. I won’t go anywhere.”
Harris is expected to decide whether to compete in the 2026 California governor’s game before the end of the summer to replace Gavin Newsom, known as governor. If she keeps moving, it will shake Contest This already has outstanding Democratic candidates.
Harris did not talk about the gubernatorial campaign in his eight-minute speech, but Harris suggested she plans to remain politically active after losing Trump in November.
She has largely avoided political appearances since Losing the 2024 election. she Meet firefighters and volunteers Hours after Trump’s inauguration, hours after Altadena, she was involved in the Trump administration’s policies when the Trump administration received a NAACP ruling in February.
Harris’ Thursday appearance was surprised by the approximately 100 women attending the party defined by the main women. As she entered the room, they jumped up, shouting loudly in the air, cheering and waving napkins. Among the participants Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance bottom, He has been reportedly running for Georgia governor and was censored as Joe Biden’s partner in 2020.
Before Harris appeared at the party, the group’s leaders talked about meaningful moments in lunchtime conversations. A woman sitting next to the Reims Reserve said the Georgian was running for governor and urged her peers to hold a fundraiser for her. As the crowd applauded enthusiastically, Lance’s bottom appeared, overcome by emotion, and put her head in her hand.
A moment later, Harris noted that she first attended an event on the group in 2016, and the country is now in a very different position. Prior to becoming vice president, Harris served as the San Francisco district attorney and attorney general for California, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
“We are committed to lifting each other, lifting communities, and lifting the nation’s commitment has not changed,” Harris said. “Now has changed since 2016: We are seeing progress retreating. The policies we were born were backed.”
Although Harris did not mention Trump, she was clearly referring to the rollback of protection targeting minorities, women, LGBTQ+ communities. She also mentioned that people and organizations have been silent and “submitted” to the government, famous language, because she Husband’s law firm It was the latest earlier this week A deal with the Trump administration and agree to abide by the president’s policies.
“We have a sense of fear in our country, I understand,” Harris said. “These are things we’ve witnessed every day in our country for the past few months, and understandably, it creates a huge sense of fear. Because, you know, we know a lot of things happen, a lot of things.”
In her most sharp public remarks since the election, she hinted that such concerns were the basis of her 2024 presidential campaign.
“I’m not here to say, ‘I told you’.” “I swear I won’t say that.”
