U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a stump speech for Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. Warren spoke to an audience at Central Michigan University. The visit is one of many made by high profile politicians to Michigan, as the presidential race winds down.
CMU is in Isabella County, a formerly blue county that backed former President Donald Trump in the last two elections. Trump won by 743 votes in the mid-Michigan county in 2020.
“Kamala Harris as president will fight for us, and that's why I'm here to fight for her,” Warren said to start her remarks. The Senator said Harris and the Democrats would codify protection for abortion.
“For those women are in the middle of a miscarriage, they go into an emergency room, a doctor examines them, knows what medical treatment they will need and says, ‘I'm sorry, you're not near enough dead,’” Warren said.
Warren touted the Democratic agenda, saying the party would pass major policies with control of the House, Senate and White House. “Week number one, we will make Roe v. Wade law of the land for everybody,” she said.
Warren said a Democratic party trifecta would get rid of the filibuster, pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the PRO Act. “Employers know how to snap their fingers and get the union-busting law firms in, the union-busting PR firms in,” she said. “We're going to pass the PRO Act. So, anybody in America who wants to join a union will be able to do that.”
Warren touted President Joe Biden's Bi-partisan Infrastructure Law and called on supporters to vote for the Democratic Party down ballot.
Merlyn Mowrey plans to vote for Kamala Harris and heard Warren speak. She said the vice president has the qualities required to be president. "She's smart. She's strong, she's assertive. She's a good leader. She's just a very impressive person."
Fellow Harris voter Sara Moslener said the vice president is a good leader. “She's everything we need right now. She has the strength that people need to feel safe, but she also has the smarts and the compassion.”
Polling shows the race between Harris and Trump is a toss up. Almost a million Michiganders have voted absentee.
Mowrey said she was, like many other voters, unsure about the outcome.
“I'm not sure, I hope she wins. I've done everything I could for that to happen,” she said.
