Kamala Harris howls with laughter at Trump’s ‘concepts’ and reveals what SHE thinks about another debate
Vice President Kamala Harris could barely contain herself as she took aim at former President Donald Trump over his response to the health care debate and called for a new confrontation with her Republican rival during her first campaign rally since their showdown.
Harris traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday, where she hopes to build on her showdown with Trump in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
The Democratic presidential candidate praised her performance during the debate, while Trump announced there would be no third debate and declared victory.
“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” Harris said as the crowd cheered. “And I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate.”
“On Tuesday night, I spoke about issues that I know are important to families across America,” the vice president said.
Kamala Harris took the stage to loud applause in Charlotte, NC for her first post-debate campaign rally on Tuesday. During the event, she called for another debate and said she “owes it to the voters”
Harris rattled on: “Lower the cost of living, invest in America’s small and medium-sized businesses, protect labor, protect reproductive freedom, and keep our country safe and secure.” She argued that the former president was following the same old playbook.
The vice president also slammed the former president for his response during the debate over replacing Obamacare, when he had tried to repeal the legislation during his first term.
“Donald Trump plans to end the Affordable Care Act,” Harris warned. “You heard what he said in the debate — he has no plan to replace it.”
“He said, ‘drafts of a plan,’” Harris said, laughing.
People in the audience could be heard shouting “concepts,” which is what Trump said during the debate when the moderator asked him if he had a plan.
“Oh, you all saw the debate!” Harris replied, barely able to contain her laughter. “Concepts, concepts. No real plan. Concepts.”
Kamala Harris got a thunderous applause when she walked in. When she attacked Trump for only having “concepts” of a replacement health care plan, the audience laughed. She also got huge cheers when she brought up protecting reproductive freedoms
Trump again drew boos from the crowd when the vice president pointed out that he refused to answer a debate question about whether he would sign a national ban on abortion.
The vice president’s comments about protecting access to abortion drew the loudest applause at the rally on Thursday.
Harris wasn’t the only one to praise her performance at Thursday’s debate in North Carolina.
“How about that debate Tuesday night?” Gov. Roy Cooper said to the cheering crowd. He praised her debate performance as “presidential.”
Harris is campaigning heavily in North Carolina, as Democrats see it as a state they can capture in November.
While Trump won the state in 2016 and 2020, it also has a Democratic governor. The former president won it over President Joe Biden by less than 1.5 points, or fewer than 75,000 votes.
The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows the race in the state as statistically even, with several recent polls even giving the vice president a slight lead. The last Democrat to win the state in a presidential election was Barack Obama in 2008.
Harris has visited the state several times recently, delivering her first policy address on the economy in Raleigh last month.
Biden was behind in the state, but after Harris took the lead in July, Democrats across the state saw a surge in enthusiasm and volunteers lined up to help pick the vice president.
Supporters in Charlotte wearing Harris-Walz shirts, stickers and hats lined up outside Bojangles Coliseum before 9:30 a.m. Thursday in hopes of seeing the Democratic candidate speak.
They are confident that their state can turn blue by 2024, but much remains to be done.
Attendees wait outside Bojangles Arena in Charlotte, NC for Kamala Harris’ September 12 rally. Supporters at the front of the line told DailyMail.com they arrived around 9:30 a.m. to get in.
Volunteers receive instructions ahead of Kamala Harris’ rally in Charlotte, NC. Many attendees wore stickers that read “we’re not going back,” a popular line from Harris’ campaign speech, in “brat” green
“There are Republicans in North Carolina who are not going to vote for Trump, and that gives me hope,” Carol Injaychock said as she waited in line for Harris’ rally.
“My God, we love her. We have to fight for our democracy,” Donna Forrester said. “It’s been a long 10 years.”
The first ballots in North Carolina were scheduled to be mailed on September 6, but that was delayed after the state Supreme Court ruled that election officials must remove Robert Kennedy Jr.’s name from the ballot and reprint it.
“North Carolina will be the state that seals the deal for Kamala Harris,” Congressman Jeff Jackson said ahead of her speech.
From Charlotte, Harris will also head to Greensboro for another campaign rally. She will make campaign stops in central Pennsylvania on Friday.
Harris’ visit to the crucial states marks the start of a new “aggressive” phase in the campaign, with just 50 days to go until the election.
It includes the vice president, running mate Tim Walz and other campaign surrogates who are spreading across key swing states. The campaign also plans to pull ads featuring debate footage to target key voter groups and members of the Democratic coalition. The first appeared Wednesday.
Harris will also ramp up her media appearances in the final stretch, amid criticism over her lack of solo interviews or press conferences as the Democratic candidate.
The vice president is expected to focus in the coming days on reaching out to voters in the state who are still in the race and key members of the Democratic coalition through interviews with local state media.
Next week, she is also expected to participate in a discussion with journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists.