Kamala Harris talks economy, health care in Chandler rally

Kamala Harris talks economy, health care in Chandler rally

Vice President Kamala Harris focused on her policy plans for the economy and health care at a Chandler rally on Thursday evening.

At the crowded Rawhide Event Center, Harris ran through a list of her policy plans and positions to address the cost of living.

She pledged to lower the cost of living by challenging corporate price-gouging and offering tax cuts.

Harris poked at her opponent, former President Donald Trump, for his statement in their recent debate that he has “concepts of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act.

“Think about this ‘concept of a plan.’ So he’s basically going to threaten the health care of 45 million Americans based on a ‘concept’ and take us back then? To what? To the time when insurance companies had the ability to deny people with preexisting conditions? Well, we are not going back,” Harris said.

She invoked a memory of late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain — who was the deciding vote to protect the ACA back when he and Harris served in the Senate together.

“It was late, late, late in the night — they were trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act again, and it required one more vote to keep it intact, and that vote was the late great John McCain. A great American, a war hero. … It was like out of a movie; the wooden doors broke open, and John McCain came rocking into the well of the United States Senate, and said, ‘no, you don’t,’” Harris recounted.

The crowd at the Kamala Harris event at the Rawhide Event Center in the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler on Oct. 10, 2024.

The crowd at the Kamala Harris event at the Rawhide Event Center in the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler on Oct. 10, 2024.

Harris segued the health care discussion into abortion bans, bashing Trump for appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped reverse Roe v. Wade.

“One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, including right here in Arizona. 3.5 million women. And many of these bans, like the one in this state, don’t have exceptions even for rape and incest. It is immoral,” Harris said.

Harris also poked at Trump for not agreeing to do any more debates, calling it a “pretty weak move.”

Other speakers at the event included Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Arizona Democratic Party Chair Yolanda Bejarano.

The room was hot and packed with thousands of people. Unfortunately, this caused excessive sweating and some vomiting amid the dedicated audience members.

Both candidates are rallying in Arizona this week, along with their running mates, to urge supporters to cast their ballots with early voting now underway.

The crowd at the Kamala Harris event at the Rawhide Event Center in the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler on Oct. 10, 2024.

The crowd at the Kamala Harris event at the Rawhide Event Center in the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler on Oct. 10, 2024.


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