Senator-Elect Kamala Harris: I Will Oppose Trump

"There’s going to be a need to fight."

Recently elected Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California, who the Democrats may run in 2020 as Obama part deux, has promised to resist President-elect Donald Trump once he steps into the White House. 

Speaking with the Sacramento Bee in a post-election interview on Thursday, Harris said she would "fight" Trump on immigration, health care, the environment and crime.

Harris disagreed with Trump on just about everything, from immigration to healthcare to crime, agreeing with him only on the fact "he recognizes that pre-existing conditions and the component about kids up to the age of 26, that they’ll be covered . . . But the population is obviously bigger than that so there’s going to be a need to fight."

Harris also said she felt "suspicious" of Trump's idea of deporting only illegal immigrants with criminal records. 

I have an experience with this kind of approach and what I have seen is when you say criminal, that’s a very broad term. It’s not a monolith. There’s a whole range of behaviors that can qualify as being called a crime. A DUI is very different from rape. And as a career prosecutor I have constantly and consistently seen that one of the best tools in the tool belt of a predator of an undocumented immigrant, be it rape, be it domestic violence, be it fraud, one of the best tools that the predator has is to look at the victim and tell the victim, ‘if you report this it is you who will be treated like a criminal.'

The only area that Harris seemed to agree with Trump on is the idea of infrastructure, joking  that many Los Angeles residents believe it’s "a human rights issue… So I would be very happy to work with President-elect Trump on infrastructure."

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