Harris blasts Trump vision as one of 'chaos, fear and hate' in fiery teachers union speech

• Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston.
• Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, contrasted the agenda of Republican nominee Donald Trump with her support for abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, organized labor, gun control and student loan debt relief.
• Harris spoke a day after President Joe Biden in an address from the Oval Office at the White House explained his decision to drop out of the 2024 election race.

Vice President Kamala Harris in a fiery speech Thursday blasted the policy agenda of former President Donald Trump as one of "chaos, fear and hate," after telling members of the nation's second-largest teachers union that she was running for president because of her first-grade public school teacher and "many people like you."

"In this moment, we are in a fight for our most fundamental freedoms," Harris said in the keynote address to the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston.

"Bring it on!" the de facto Democratic nominee said, before her audience began loudly chanting that same phrase.

Harris contrasted her agenda of abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, gun control, support for organized labor, and student loan debt relief with the policies of the Republican nominee Trump and his allies on those issues.

Shortly after Harris concluded her speech, Trump's campaign released a "Plan to Save American Education and Give Power Back to Parents," which contained a range of ideas that are anathema to the AFT, among them abolishing teacher tenure and adopting merit pay.

Harris spoke four days after President Joe Biden said he was dropping out of the 2024 election contest and endorsed her to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee