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[Text/Observer Network Yan Shanshan] "I have dealt with all kinds of criminals. Sexual assaults that abuse women, fraudsters that deceive consumers, and con men who break the rules for their own selfish gains. So listen to me, I know what kind of person Donald Trump is."

According to reports from the Associated Press and The New York Times, on July 22, local time, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech to her campaign team at the former "Biden-Harris" campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, kicking off her first campaign event. While reviewing her career as a prosecutor, she launched a fierce attack on her Republican opponent, former U.S. President Trump.

Trump is currently embroiled in multiple lawsuits and has previously been found guilty in the "hush money" case, and guilty of all 34 criminal charges brought by prosecutors in the case.

The Associated Press said that Harris emphasized her professional background as the district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California, which is in stark contrast to Trump's criminal record. She is pondering her campaign strategy for entering the White House and brewing the political messages that need to be conveyed.

With 106 days left until the election day, Harris arrived at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington on the 22nd local time. This was the first time she met with her campaign team since she announced that she would seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

Video footage from the scene showed that at least 100 staff members shouted "Kamala" to welcome her. The office was covered with posters of "Harris for President," "Restore Roe," and "Kamala," and some "Biden-Harris" stickers had not been torn off in time.

Biden, who is recuperating from a positive coronavirus test, addressed campaign staff by phone, saying, "I want you to give to Kamala all the love you've given to me."

A New York Times reporter saw at the scene that some staff members cried when Biden was speaking.

Harris then took the stage to give a speech, and Biden did not hang up the phone and listened to the entire thing online.

Harris thanked Biden and his wife Jill Biden, saying, "They are really like family to us." Biden later said by phone, "It's mutual... I'm always watching you, kid, and I love you."

Harris announced on the same day that she had asked Biden's campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon to continue to be in charge of her campaign, and said the latter had accepted the proposal.

In addition, Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez will also remain in his position.

When talking about her career as a prosecutor before being elected as a senator, Harris said that she had dealt with all kinds of criminals, "I know what kind of person Trump is." According to California campaign finance records, during the re-election campaign of then-California Attorney General Harris, Trump donated $5,000 to Harris' campaign account in 2011 and an additional $1,000 in 2013.

The New York Times mentioned that Democrats hope Harris will be a more effective communicator of information against Trump than Biden, and especially hope that she will go all out on abortion rights and Trump's criminal record.

Harris has already begun to draw that comparison, noting that she took on the "big Wall Street banks" during the foreclosure crisis, at the same time that Trump was convicted of financial fraud.

Harris said her campaign was about more than just "fighting Trump." She said she and Trump represented "two very different visions for America's future," adding that Trump wanted to "take America back to a time when many of our fellow Americans did not enjoy full freedoms and rights."

She criticized that Trump's policies will put Social Security and federal Medicare "on the chopping block" and regard health care as a "privilege for the rich" rather than a "right for every American." The United States has been through these paths before, "They don't bring prosperity. They lead to inequality and economic injustice. We won't go back."

This was Harris' first campaign speech after she announced her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The New York Times called the speech "energizing."

Harris's strategy of attacking her opponent also echoes the rhetoric predicted by political consultants earlier. Democratic strategic consultant Rodell Mollineau previously said that Harris would be able to launch "a more dynamic campaign from young voters and people of color" and that Harris, who has served as a prosecutor and California Attorney General and U.S. Senator, would be able to use "her years of litigation experience to effectively accuse Trump in the court of public opinion."

As support for Harris quickly solidifies within the Democratic Party, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee has announced that the party will hold an online vote to determine the candidate before the Democratic National Convention on August 19, and the vote is expected to take place before August 7.

A poll conducted by CBS and YouGov on July 21-22 showed that 79% of Democratic voters support Harris to succeed Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate, while 21% of Democratic voters prefer other candidates.

Trump expressed his disdain for his new opponent to CNN on the 21st. He said that if Harris could successfully obtain the Democratic candidate nomination, he would easily defeat her, "It is easier to defeat Harris than to defeat Biden." The 78-year-old man, whose right ear wound began to heal after the "attempted assassination", also attacked Harris on the 20th for "laughing like a madman."

Reuters quoted sources as saying that Trump's campaign team has signaled that it will align Harris with Biden's immigration policy as closely as possible and encircle her from an economic perspective.

Reuters said that during this period, 59-year-old Jamaican-Indian American Harris will form a new interactive relationship with 78-year-old Trump, providing a "vivid generational and cultural split-screen picture."

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