“He has the intelligence, the commitment and the judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president,” she said.
Still, Harris maintained that her candidacy offers a chance for Americans to “turn the page” on the divisions of the past 10 years, a period that she appeared to suggest started when Trump launched his 2016 White House candidacy.
“I’m talking about an era that started about a decade ago where there is some suggestion, warped I believe it to be, that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of where I believe most Americans are, which is to believe that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up,” she said.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.