In AP interview, Harris says Democrats 'are standing up for working people' in government shutdown
Source: AP
Updated 1:39 AM EDT, October 18, 2025
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — As Democrats dig in for a lengthening government shutdown, former Vice President Kamala Harris is cheering them on as she travels the country touting her presidential campaign memoir amid speculation about another White House run.
The Democratic 2024 nominee told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she remains in contact with Democrats on Capitol Hill, encouraging them to maintain their demands that President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional majority address looming spikes in Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums.
“The Republicans control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. They are in charge, and they are responsible for the shutdown,” she said. Democrats, she said, “are doing the right thing by standing up for working people and not allowing the Republicans to carry a tax cut for the wealthiest people in our country on the backs of working people in America.”
It was just one example of Harris using her book tour to urge Democrats to lead a consistent, aggressive resistance to Trump while at the same time recommitting to reaching working- and middle-class voters who supported the Republican or stayed home last November.
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What useful purpose is served by demanding something that's already true on the face of it? With that kind of "and-while-you're-at-it" comment, it negatively (and falsely) insinuates that the Democrats have forgotten the poor and that our party can only focus on one thing at at time. 
of someone who feels that they are arguing from a position of weakness, or who cannot defend or explain their position, or who isn't mature enough to handle the fact that someone disagrees with them. Fortunately, none of those things apply to me. 
What an odd thing to say. Why attack me with such a suggestion? Weird. Actually, my message was very clear. What "concerns" me are the unnecessary and petty attacks on Democrats and our message. Indeed, if Harris had listed everything I mentioned in the previous list, it's easy for me to imagine that SOMEONE... SOMEWHERE... would gripe that she forgot to mention "the whales" or "climate change". I'm not an idiot and word games and trying to twist the narrative do not work on me.
Have a great weekend!
