"I know Donald Trump's type," Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday to cheers at her first stop as a presidential candidate. Speaking to staff and supporters at her campaign headquarters in Delaware, Harris cast herself, as she has before, as a tough prosecutor with a winning record prior to becoming a Washington politician. "Before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was elected attorney general, as I've mentioned, to California," she said.
"Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds." "Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters, who broke the rules for their own gain," Harris continued.
"So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type. And in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his." She used the same, well-timed attack line against Trump -- almost word for word -- at her first rally in battleground Wisconsin on Tuesday, where it again garnered applause and even chants of "Lock Him Up!" As Democrats rallied around Harris in the 24 hours after Biden's stunning announcement he would not seek reelection, her prosecutorial background has generated party enthusiasm as a stark point of contrast against Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts in May.
Trump is set to be sentenced in his criminal hush money case in New York on Sept. 18, which will be in the height of the general election campaign. The former president has vowed to.