Kamala Harris Warned America Not to Back Down in Her Fiery Comeback Speech: ‘Courage Is Contagious’

You may have noticed that former Vice President Kamala Harris has been laying pretty low since the 2024 election. But on April 30, she gave a speech at the gala for Emerge America—an organization that helps Democratic women run for office—that proved she hasn’t given up the fight, and she doesn’t want anyone else to give up either.

In one particularly memorable moment, Harris called on Americans to speak out, saying, “courage is contagious.”

“President Trump and his administration, and their allies, are counting on the notion that fear can be contagious. They are counting on the notion that if they make some people afraid, it will have a chilling effect on others,” she said. “But what they have overlooked is that fear is not the only thing that’s contagious. Courage is contagious.” She added a call to action: “Let’s lock it in.”

While Harris’s speech was uplifting, she also didn’t hold back on her criticisms of Trump or his agenda, which she said was, “decades in the making.” Harris said, “It’s an agenda, a narrow, self-serving vision of America where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, cash in on their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.” She called out the Trump administration for “disappearing” American citizens without due process and coming after judges, as well as for the, “greatest man-made economic crisis” in modern history.