Kamala Harris Shows Off New Energy For Democrats In Atlanta Rally

ATLANTA ― Vice president and newly minted Democratic presumptive nominee Kamala Harris offered loud and boisterous evidence Tuesday night that it’s a brand-new race against the GOP nominee, coup-attempter and convicted criminal Donald Trump.

“The path to the White House runs right through this state,” said Harris to a crowd of some 10,000 packed into the Georgia State Convocation Center. “The momentum in this race is shifting, and there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it.”

Harris repeated lines that have already become a favorite for her audience, contrasting her record of prosecuting sex abusers, suing for-profit college operators, and going after giant banks for fraud against Trump having been found liable for sexual abuse, paying a massive settlement for Trump University, and having been found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to a hide a hush money payment to a porn actor.

“So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris said.

Harris also answered attacks from Trump and his allies accusing her of enabling an immigration policy that allowed millions of migrants to cross the southern border illegally. She pointed out that it was Trump who tanked a bipartisan immigration bill that would have provided new funding for Border Patrol agents and tightened asylum rules because it would hurt Trump’s efforts to regain the White House.

“Donald Trump does not care about border security, he only cares about himself,” she said, adding that as president, she would push that same legislation through Congress and sign it into law, “and show Donald Trump what real leadership looks like.”

Harris’s stump speech hit themes familiar to Democrats. Restoring abortion rights, protecting the Affordable