Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, everybody. Oh, it's good to be back in
Georgia.
Thank you, everyone. Can we please hear it for Tyler?
I want to thank Tyler for that incredible introduction.
I invited him and several other young entrepreneurs to come
and visit with me at the White House,
and we had a really very long and important conversation
about the future of America entirely.
You represent the best of our future.
Thank you for
that and please give it up for Quavo
and Megan.
It is so good to see everyone.
And let me let me also thank our incredible members
of Congress who are with us this evening,
Senator John
Ossoff, Senator Rafael, and
Representative Makima Williams.
To Mayor Andre Dickens, thank you for welcoming
me to Atlanta
and thank you to the great Stacey Abrams,
your extraordinary leadership.
So, George, it is so good to be back.
And I am very clear
the path to the White House runs right through this
state.
And you all helped us win in
2020, and we're going to do it again in
2024.
So let's get right down.
So I'm going to get it.
I'm going to get into some business now.
OK, I'm going to get into some business now.
All right. So Georgia,
as many of you know
before and have a seat,
if you have a chair,
as many of you know,
before I was elected vice president
and before I was elected a United States senator,
I was an elected attorney general and an elected District
Attorney.
And before that I was a courtroom prosecutor.
So in those roles, I took on perpetrators of all
kinds.
Predators who abuse women,
fraudsters ripped off consumers,
cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
So hear me when I say
I know Donald Trump's tight
and I have been dealing with people like him my
entire career.
For example, as Attorney General of California,
I took on one of our country's largest for profit
colleges that was scamming students.
Well, Donald Trump ran a for profit college that scammed
students.
As a prosecutor, I specialized in child sexual abuse cases
and sexual abuse cases.
Well, Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse
and as an Attorney general,
I held the big Wall Street banks accountable for fraud.
Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud.
So in this, so in this campaign,
so in
this campaign,
I will proudly put my record against his any day,
including, for example, on the issue of immigration.
So I was the attorney general of a border state
in that job. I walked underground tunnels between the United
States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers.
I went after transnational gangs,
drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country
illegally.
I prosecuted them in case after case,
and I won. Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, on the other hand,
has been talking a big game about securing our border,
but he does not walk the walk.
Or, as my friend Cuevo would say,
he does not walk it like he talks it.
Now what? Our administration worked on the most significant border
security bill in decades.
Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington,
DC, supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it.
It was all set to pass,
but at the last minute,
Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it
down.
Right.
He tanked tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it
would help him win an election.
Which goes to show, Donald Trump does not care about
border security.
He only cares about himself.
And when
I am president, I will work to actually solve the
problem.
So here is my pledge to you
as president. I will bring back the border security bill
that Donald Trump killed and I will sign it.
Donald Trump, what
real leadership looks like.
But make no mistake, this campaign
is not just about US versus Donald Trump.
Truly,
this campaign is about two very different
visions for our nation.
One focused on the future,
the other focused on the past.
We believe in a future where every person has the
opportunity
to build a business, to own a home,
to
build interpretation wealth,
a future with affordable healthcare,
affordable childcare,
paid leave.
And all of this is to say,
building up the middle class will be a defining goal
of my presidency
because we here all know
when our middle class is strong,
America is strong.
And to keep our middle class strong,
families need relief from the high cost of living so
that they have a chance not just to get by,
but to get ahead.
And yes, it is true that by many indicators,
our economy is the strongest in the world.
But while inflation is down and wages are up,
prices are still too high.
You know it and I know it.
And when we win this election,
here's what we're going to do about it.
On day one. I will take on price gouging and
bring down costs.
We will
ban more of those hidden fees and surprise late charges
that banks and other companies use to pad their profits.
We will take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent
increases,
and we will take on Big Pharma to cap prescription
drug costs for all Americans.
Our
plan will lower costs and save many middle class families
thousands of dollars a year.
But Donald Trump has a different plan in mind,
one that would raise prices on middle class families.
Just look at his Project
2025 agenda.
I take it you've seen it.
Project 2025 is a plan to weaken the middle class.
Be clear.
And Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security
and Medicare.
He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big
corporations.
He intends to gut our investments in clean energy jobs.
He intends to end the Affordable Care Act
to take us back to a time when insurance companies
have the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.
You guys remember what that was?
Children with asthma, Breast cancer survivors,
grandparents with diabetes.
Georgia. America has tried these failed policies before,
and we are not going back.
We're not going back
and we are not going back because
ours is a fight for the future
and it is a fight
for freedom.
Across our nation we are witnessing a full on assault
on hard fought,
hard won freedoms and rights.
The freedom to vote, The freedom to be safe from
gun violence.
The freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate.
The freedom to love who you love openly and with
pride.
The freedom to learn and acknowledge our true and full
history.
And the freedom of a woman to make decisions about
her own life
and not
tell
her what to do. Ours is a fight for the
future and for freedom.
And I don't have to tell folks in Atlanta
that generations of Americans before
US-led the fight for freedom
and now
the baton is in our hands,
each and every one of us.
And we love our country.
We love our country. And I believe it is the
highest form of patriotism
to fight for the ideals of our country.
We who believe in the sacred freedom to vote will
finally pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John
Lewis Voting right to cancel it.
We who believe in the freedom
to live safe from gun violence will finally pass universal
background checks,
red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban.
We who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump's
extreme abortion bans.
And when Congress passes a law to restore reproductive freedoms,
as President of the United States,
I will sign it in too long.
So November 5th. November 5th
is in 98 days.
In 98 days, and let's level set,
friends, let's level set. We have a fight in front
of us.
We have a fight in front of us and we
are the underdogs in this race.
We are.
But you see, this is a people powered campaign.
Hours is a people powered campaign.
In fact, after I announced my candidacy,
we saw the best week of grassroots fundraising in presidential
campaign history.
And if you go to
kamalaharris.com, you can help us build on that success.
So the momentum in this race is shifting
and there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it
may have noticed.
So last week, you may have seen
he pulled out of the debate in September.
He had previously agreed to so,
so, So here's the thing.
Here's The funny thing about that.
So he won't debate,
but he and his running mate sure seem to have
a lot to say about me.
And by the way, don't you find some of their
stuff to just be plain weird?
Well, Donald,
I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the
debate stage
because as the saying goes,
if you've got something to say
and my
face, thank you.
So Georgia, in the next
98 days, we have our work cut out for us
and this is not going to be easy.
This is hard work, but we like hard work.
Hard work is good work.
So Georgia, today I asked you,
Are you ready to get to work?
Do we believe in freedom?
Do we believe in opportunity?
Do we believe in the promise of America?
And are we ready to fight for it?
And when we fight, we win.
God bless you, God bless you.