Harris Flashes Signs Of Anger In First Major Speech Since Loss
Charlie Kirk Staff
05/01/2025

Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the spotlight Wednesday night in San Francisco, delivering a speech sharply criticizing President Trump.
Harris delivered the keynote address at Emerge’s 20th-anniversary gala—a Democratic group dedicated to recruiting women for public office. After briefly acknowledging the organization, she swiftly turned to critiquing the Trump administration.
“The American people deserve leaders who make their lives better and make our country stronger, but sadly, we have seen quite the opposite over these past few months,” Harris said. “Now I know tonight’s event happens to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration, and I’ll leave it to others to give a full accounting of what has happened so far, but I will say this, instead of an administration working to advance America’s highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals.”
Harris argued that Trump is “counting on the notion that fear can be contagious … that if they make some people afraid, it will have a chilling effect on others.”
The former vice president then claimed Trump was creating the “greatest manmade economic crisis in modern presidential history,” referring to the president’s massive tariff rollout, which she described as “absolute chaos.”
She praised left-wing extremist leaders like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for touring the country and rallying against Trump’s agenda. She also commended Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for traveling to El Salvador to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration deported as an MS-13 gang member.