US Vice President Kamala Harris has kicked off her presidential campaign with a scathing attack on her Republican rival Donald Trump, alleging the former president wants to take the country backwards.
Addressing her campaign staffers at Wilmington in Delaware on Monday, Harris (59) alleged that Trump's Project 2025 would "weaken the middle class and bring us backwards to the failed trickle-down policies that gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and made working families pay for the cost".
Biden's former campaign team has been rechristened Harris Campaign, a day after the 81-year-old incumbent president announced that he was withdrawing from the race to be the next president and endorsed Harris, who is of both Indian and African origin, as the Democratic Party's new nominee for the November 5 general elections.
The vice president told the campaign staffers on Monday that she was retaining the same team from the Biden-Harris campaign.
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