Kamala Harris is betting on a surge of Democratic enthusiasm to propel her campaign for the White House, casting the election as a fight to protect “freedom” in America from Donald Trump.
Harris hit the campaign trail this week with the wind in her sails, securing her position as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, raising more than $100mn and signing up nearly 60,000 people to volunteer to help get her elected in November, all in a little over 24 hours.
Her main messages to voters are already developing: that she is an agent of generational change, while Trump represents the past; that as a former prosecutor she can take him on as a convicted felon; that on the economy she is a more genuine defender of the middle class; and she will be a fierce champion for individual liberties against Republican extremism.