Staring down Trump, Kamala Harris says she stands with protesters on racial equality

Washington — In her first solo speech as Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Kamala Harris vowed to stand with the protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as many in the country reel from the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was unarmed, in Wisconsin on Sunday. "That mattered more to him than saving American lives.""Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States: he failed to protect the American people – plain and simple," Harris said in her Thursday speech, "Trump showed that we in the legal profession would call a reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people."That disregard, she lamented, resulted in allowing the pandemic to spread to "communities of color who have been subjected to structural racism for generations." Harris' speech was framed as the marquee Democratic pre-rebuttal on the final day of the Republican convention, besides the apparently impromptu bookings of Joe Biden for two cable news interviews earlier Thursday from his beach house in Delaware. They are sick and tired."Biden also reiterated his pledge Wednesday to Jacob Blake's family that "justice must and will be done." Biden has now at least three times this week condemned the sporadic violent demonstrations of looting and burning property by some in Kenosha after the shooting, however, in the MSNBC interview, he accused President Trump of encouraging further destruction.