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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:32 AM Friday

Kamala Harris says 'guardrails' on Trump 'have failed' [View all]

Source: The Hill

10/09/25 10:33 PM ET


Former Vice President Harris said on Thursday that any checks and balances to hold back President Trump have not worked.

On tour to promote her new book about her campaign, “107 Days,” Harris spoke with journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher at the Warner Theatre to a sold-out audience.

“The point is that the guardrails have failed, for the most part,” Harris said. “Except one, which is the people and the power of God.”

“So right now, in this moment, if the Supreme Court isn’t a guardrail … what is, from a legal point of view, the guardrail that you see?” Harris continued. “Just the people.”

Harris called congressional Republicans “complicit” and said they “know what is wrong and [are] not stepping up.” Instead of “speaking up,” Republicans are “living in fear of retribution and are more invested in their own political survival than speaking up and taking the hits that may come.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5548564-harris-slams-trump-guardrails/

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