Kamala Harris comes out swinging against Trump’s attacks on ‘freedom’ in speech to teacher’s union

Warning that America is in the midst of a “fight for our most fundamental freedoms,” Vice PresidentKamala Harris on Thursday challenged a group of education and labor activists to join her against Republican “extremists” as she campaigns to deny Donald Trump a second term in the White House.

Harris, who was addressing a gathering of the powerful American Federation of Teachers union, opened her remarks with words of praise for President Joe Biden and the Oval Office address he delivered late Wednesday to explain his decision not to seek a second term and endorse the vice president to run in his stead.

She said Biden “showed once again what true leadership looks like” with his “poignant” remarks, and praised the 46th president for leading “with grace and strength and bold vision and deep compassion.”

But Harris quickly turned to the issue at hand, the fight against Trump and his Make America Great Again movement, describing it as a union-busting force that is looking to “return America to a dark past” by implementing the plans outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for a second Trump administration.

She said Trump “and his extreme allies “are trying to take our nation back to failed trickle down economic policies, back to union busting, back to tax breaks for billionaires.”

“Donald Trump and his allies want to cut Medicare and Social Security, to stop student loan forgiveness for teachers and other public servants… He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill, and he intends to end the Affordable Care Act,” she said.

“You know, America, has tried these failed economic policies before, but we are not going back. We are not going back.”