PHILADELPHIA — During a visit to Philadelphia on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris cast the outcome of Pennsylvania’s November elections as a crucial inflection point that could determine whether the nation’s government heads down a path of restricting or expanding civil rights.
“What you guys are doing here in Pennsylvania is going to affect the whole country,” she told a training session for Democratic organizers during a surprise stop with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro at a Laborers’ District Council training facility on North Broad Street.
She linked the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade to recent efforts in Harrisburg to restrict abortion and voting access, describing it all as part of an ideological campaign by Republicans to “gain power instead of uplift(ing) the people of America based on their basic needs and desires.”
