Kamala Harris Tells Democrats Across 7 States, “This Is the Moment Where We Turn That Anger Into Action”
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 36 minutes ago, November 2, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is asking Democrats to put their frustration after her 2024 loss to work: knock on doors, make calls and vote in the November 3 midterms. With Election Day tomorrow, she’s campaigned across 7 states to help elect Democrats who she argues can check President Donald Trump’s power.
Her stops have included California, Michigan, Nevada, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Georgia. Across the trip, she’s addressed the anger, sadness and helplessness she says Democrats have felt over the past year and a half, then asked them to do something concrete before voting ends.
In Milwaukee on October 26, Harris told supporters, “We are now in a moment to turn anger into action.” In Macon, Georgia, on October 29, she urged them to turn “pain into purpose,” tying that appeal to the cost of gas, groceries, housing, child care and health care.
At Clark Atlanta University that day, she campaigned alongside Senator Jon Ossoff, who’s seeking a second term against Republican Representative Mike Collins. Harris told students they had “everything at stake” and said the time for watching from the sidelines “has passed.”
She’s also pressed Democrats to compete in the South. In Mississippi on October 22, she backed Scott Colom’s challenge to Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. A Colom victory would make him the state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction and the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1982.
“The South is in play. When Democrats invest in the South, we can win in the South,” Harris said.
Her turnout pitch has included a warning that Trump might interfere with the election. In Detroit on September 22 and at an Atlanta church on October 29, she called for voting numbers “too big to rig,” borrowing a phrase Trump has used. Trump himself isn’t on the midterm ballot; Harris has argued that Congress must act as a check on his administration.
She’s asking something of Democratic officeholders, too. At an Atlanta fundraising dinner on October 30, she called for “our willingness to use our power to deliver on our commitments.” Her proposed changes include expanding the Supreme Court, with 13 seats specified during her New Hampshire visit, statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and reconsidering the Electoral College.
Harris hasn’t announced whether she’ll run for president again in 2028. Asked about that possibility, she said, “I honestly go back and forth. There’s so many factors.”
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