Kamala Harris slams Trump over debates at Atlanta rally with Quavo: Live updates

If Donald Trump wants to make illegal immigration a campaign issue, Vice President Kamala Harris is more than happy to have that fight.

Reproductive rights are a key issue in the 2024 presidential race, with Donald Trump claiming credit for the end of Roe v Wade, and Kamala Harris calling for more abortion rights protections.

Katie Hawkinson reports on how the end of Roe has impacted women across the country.

If Donald Trump wants to make illegal immigration a campaign issue, Vice President Kamala Harris is more than happy to have that fight.

Harris opened her appearance before a crowd of 10,000 in Atlanta on Tuesday by taking aim at Trump’s record — criminal and otherwise — and calling out the ex-president for killing the bipartisan immigration bill that was crafted by one of the nation’s most conservative senators earlier this year.

Harris took the stage after Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion whipped up the crowd.

The rapper performed four songs: “Girls in the Hood,” “Mamushi,” “Body,” and “Savage” as she exhorted the crowd to vote for Harris.

Andrew Feinberg has all the details.

Kamala Harris is trying to ratchet up the pressure on Donald Trump, calling attention to his seeming ambivalence to debate her onstage.

“Well Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider – to meet me on the debate stage – because as the saying goes, if you got something to say, say it to my face!” Harris told the crowd in Atlanta with a grin, to huge applause.

Watch her challenge to Trump below.

Previously, when he was still in the 2024 campaign, Biden was set to close out the DNC.

“Monday night is Joe’s night,” a source told the network. “And then he’ll turn the keys over.”

During her performance Tuesday at the Harris rally in Atlanta, rapper Megan Thee Stallion argued the vice-president is the 2024 candidate who will protect women’s reproductive freedoms.

“My ladies in the crowd, if you want to keep loving your body, you know who to vote for,” she said onstage.

One of the biggest boos of the night so far came when Kamala Harris mentioned Project 2025, a far-right blueprint document for a potential future Trump administration.

“I take it you’ve seen it,” Harris said as the crowd jeered.

The vice-president added, “America has tried these failed policies before, and we are not going back.”

Donald Trump has denied being involved in the project, even though it was drawn up by allies and former staffers.

Here’s more on Project 2025.

One of Kamala Harris’s first points here in Atlanta has been to remind people that she was a top official — first an attorney general, then a US Senator — in the border state of California.

She argued that Donald Trump talks a lot about the border, but doesn’t actually put forward solutions, pointing to how his MAGA allies rejected a border bill earlier this year.

The Trump campaign has been turning up the border-related attacks on Harris in recent days, so expect a lot more discussion of this.

Kamala Harris has taken the stage in Atlanta, a key swing state the Biden-Harris campaign narrowly carried in 2020.

“The path to the White House runs right through this state,” the vice-president told the crowd, to roars of approval.

After arriving in Atlanta earlier today, the Vice President stopped by Paschal’s in the Castleberry Hill neighborhood. Founded in 1947, Paschal’s was known as a convening destination for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr, John Lewis, Andrew Young, and more.

Harris greeted diners and ordered some food. She was joined by Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Representative Nikema Williams, and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.