Kamala Harris ‘Lets the Truth Slip’ About Who Will Really Be Running Things If Biden Wins

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris slipped up during a virtual address on Saturday and looked ahead to a “Harris administration” after the 2020 election.

The moment: “A Harris administration,” she said, before catching herself, and adding, “together with Joe Biden as the president of the United States.”

  • Starting over, Harris said, “The Biden-Harris administration” would look out for Latina business owners — the group she was addressing — and other working Americans.

Hispanic voters are seen as pivotal to the 2020 vote in Arizona, a key battleground state, and Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has lately faced criticism for allowing President Donald Trump to make inroads with the demographic group in Arizona and elsewhere.

  • The president on Monday held a Latinos for Trump roundtable discussion at the Arizona Grand Resort, marking his fifth stop in the state this year.

The reaction: The Trump campaign on Monday tweeted a clip of the “Harris administration” remark, saying, “Kamala Harris lets the truth slip.”

The verbal misstep played into the campaign’s efforts to cast Harris, a senator from California, as a power-hungry “phony” who would be the de facto president if Biden were elected in November.

The speech: During her five-minute address to Arizona Latinas, Harris pledged to repeal tax cuts that went to the wealthy and to invest in minority-owned businesses, manufacturing, home ownership and government-run health care.

Harris also said she would decriminalize marijuana and make sweeping reforms to the American economy and criminal justice system.

  • “This is no time for half-steppin’,” she said. “This is no time for incrementalism. We need to deal with the system, and there needs to be significant change in the design of the system so that we can support working people, so that we can fight for the dignity of people, so that we can make sure that all people have equal access to opportunity and to justice.”
By We'll Do It Live