Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday contrasted her approach to dissent to Donald Trump, after a protester interrupted her during a get-out-the-vote rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“I pledge to you: I will listen to experts,” Harris said. “I will listen to those impacted by the decisions I make, and to people who disagree with me.”
“We're actually fighting for our democracy,” the vice president then said as security escorted the protester away in the crowd. “And unlike Donald Trump, I don't believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail; I'll give them a seat at the table,” she added in a reference to the Republican presidential nominee calling some Democrats “the enemy from within” earlier this month.
It’s not clear what the demonstrator was protesting. Pro-Palestinian protesters, angry with Harris for not breaking with President Joe Biden’s approach to the war in Gaza, have at times interrupted her on the campaign trial.
