Harris accuses Trump of having left American ideals in the first big speech since the office

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris Harris reproached President Donald Trump in her first big speech since the office and accused her former rival, the “greatest economic crisis caused by humans” in modern history through its extensive tariffs and to warn that his conflicts with the courts moved the nation into a constitutional crisis.

Harris spoke on Wednesday evening at the Emerge Gala in San Francisco and benefited from an organization that supports women who are interested in entry into politics. The candidate of the Democratic President in 2024 marked the first 100 days of the second Trump government during her speech and said: “Instead of a government that predict the highest ideals of America's ahead of this ideal.”

“And what we see in these last 14 weeks are the Americans who use their voice and show their courage,” added Harris.

The former Vice President provided a number of attacks on the administration and accused Trump for the economic turbulence caused by those imported by him that he had imported from large trading partners.

Harris called Trump's tariff “ruthlessly” and said: “As I predicted”, she “clearly invites you to a recession”.

Harris said that these import taxes will “violate workers and families by increasing the costs of everyday basics, devastated their pension accounts, which people paid for a lifetime in American companies and paralyzed American companies, and they force people to dismiss people.”

Trump said that the entire tariffs corrected a retail weight with other countries and restore the US manufacturing jobs. However, the political changes in the administration shaken the global markets and contributed to increasing the economic pressure on the US economy. Official data published on Wednesday showed that the economy was completed by 0.3%in the first quarter.

Harris told the Democrats that there was a method behind the breaking pace of the political rollouts of the Trump government and described the president as the “ship” of a much larger conservative project.

“Friends, please do not let us make us think, everything is chaos. I know that it feels like that, but I understand what we are actually witnessing is an event with a high speed in which a ship is used for the quick implementation of an agenda that has been in advance for decades,” said the former Vice President.

The way forward for Harris and the Democratic Party

Harris' speech on Wednesday comes to a turning point for the democratic candidate of the democratic president in 2024 with weighty questions about her own way and that of her party.

After the defeat of last year, Harris and her team began to debate her next steps, since he had considered another run for the presidency in 2028, or a return to her home state for a Governor run 2026. In particular, Harris' public speech took place in California on Wednesday. “It's wonderful to be at home,” said Harris during her speech.

Harris' advisor believes that the classification in the governor's race would make her intentions clear by summer 2025, but it will be put under pressure shortly to make a decision – this competition heats up with democratic former representatives of Katie Porter, Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and several other prominent stalks that have already been started in the campaigns.

Regardless of whether she enters into the California race or for the presidential regulations of 2028, a less specific proposal, the comments on Wednesday, months after your defeat, also reflect on a deliberate resumption, while Democrats are looking for leadership, while the new Trump administration is after leadership.

When she lambasted the Trump government on Wednesday evening for “sharing and conquest”, Harris asked the Democrats to stay together.

She also emphasized several legislators in the ideological spectrum of the party, of which she said that “in different ways she spoke to moral clarity about this moment”. Harris appointed New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Maryland Senator Chris van Hollen, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, New York Rep.

“I'm not here tonight to offer all the answers. But I'm here to say that: You are not alone and we are all together,” said Harris. “And just talk: it will probably get worse before they get better,” she said. “But we are ready for it. We will not dispel. We will stand together, all a guide.”

For Harris, we were part of a slow return to the public after leaving his office in January.

The former Vice President is to carry out a donation campaign for the Democratic National Committee in New York City on Tuesday, according to a source that received an invitation. In the past few months, Harris has also regularly set up funds for the committee that has used the extensive e -mail list that she developed during the 2024 campaign.

At the beginning of this month, Harris began to increase her public criticism of her former rival and to share their concerns about the course of events since Trump's inauguration. “There were many things we knew that they would happen,” said Harris in a video of her comments. “I'm not here to say that I told you,” she added before she laughed.

Harris' speech on Wednesday belonged to sober warnings of the potential for a “constitutional crisis” when she suggested that checks and credit within the government had “clicked” with the courts in the middle of the administration.

“We live at a moment when the controls we have historically rely on,” Harris. “And we know here that when the checks ultimately collapses when the congress does not do its part, or if the dishes do not carry out their part, or if both do his part, the president still defies them – now friends who are described as a constitutional crisis. And that is a crisis that ultimately affects everyone.”

She added: “The only exam that a balance, the only force that must not fail is the voice of the people.”

From immigration fights to the defense of the Federal Government's reduction in President Trump, the Ministry of Justice reacted to more than a hundred emergency lawsuits in the first hundred days, in some cases publicly coordinated with the judges

Harris' conviction of the administration on Wednesday – her most direct comments this year – contributes to an increasingly overcrowded democratic choir. Several other prominent party members were active in Harris' quiet time and used the management vacuum to increase their national profiles, some with a view to 2028.

Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled through the country with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to combat the party's progressive basis against the “oligarchy”. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, has exchanged right -wing executives in his new podcast to expand democratic news. And Illinois Governor JB Pritzker traveled to the early struggling state of New Hampshire and accused parts of his own party, in view of Trump's extensive early actions.

In the meantime, Harris' running colleague Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has publicly thought about the lessons that learned from the loss of the ticket last year. And Walz also spoke to the delicate balance of creating the stage for the Presidential race in 2028 during a performance at the beginning of this week at Harvard University.

“If people believe that they are hungry for the office than in the moment we are in, and the fights of it, I think they will be buried. I think people are not very patient for politics as usual,” said Walz.

CNNS Arlette Saenz and Edward-Isaac Dovere contributed to this report.