Harris warns that Trump will return US to a 'dark past'

Trump, meanwhile, calls her a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country’

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US Vice-President Kamala Harris appealed on July 24 to the Democratic Party's most loyal voting bloc, black women, telling an audience of several thousand in Indianapolis that former president Donald Trump's agenda represented "an outright attack on our children, our families and our future".

Ms Harris' pointed speech, delivered at a convention of Zeta Phi Beta, one of the nation's most prominent black sororities, laid out a "choice between two different visions for our nation".

One vision-hers - would build on what she described as the Biden administration's biggest accomplishments: Expanding access to healthcare, lowering the cost of prescription drugs such as insulin, reducing child poverty and creating an economy that "works for working people".

The other, she warned, would return the United States to a "dark past", with cuts to Medicare and the elimination of the US Department of Education and popular programmes such as Head Start.