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Kamala Harris draws cheers for response to audience member who shouted Trump is “going to jail”

"The courts will handle that and we will handle November," Harris said at a rally in Pittsburgh

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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a Labor Day event at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan, September 2, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a Labor Day event at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan, September 2, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has framed her campaign for president as “the prosecutor vs. the felon,” drew cheers for her response to an audience member who called out former President Donald Trump's legal woes during a Labor Day campaign rally in Pittsburgh on Monday.

The vice president was telling her supporters about how the former president is “trying to pull us backward, including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize,” when an audience member shouted out “he’s going to jail."

“Well, the courts will handle that and we will handle November. How about that?” Harris replied.

She added, amidst cheers: “We’ll handle November. Let the courts handle the other thing. But we’re not going back.”

Harris supporters during a rally last month in Wisconsin chanted "lock him up," prompting the veep to issue a similar message.

“Well, hold on, hold on, hold on,” she said at the time. “You know what? Here, hold on. Here’s the thing, the courts are going to handle that part of it. We’re going to beat him in November.”

By Nandika Chatterjee

Nandika Chatterjee is a News Fellow at Salon. In 2022 she moved to New York after graduating from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she pursued a B.A. in Communication and a B.S. in Psychology. She is currently an M.A. in Journalism candidate at NYU, pursuing the Magazine and Digital Storytelling program, and was previously an Editorial Fellow at Adweek.


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