Kamala claims LGBTQ people, women, immigrants don’t ‘feel safe’ in US after boosting defund the police, opening US borders

She downplayed those attempts and instead used the opportunity to falsely link Trump to Project 2025, claimed LGBTQ people don't "feel safe" in Florida due to the Parental Rights in Education law, which she called the "don't say gay" laws, and to blame Trump for immigrants' not "feeling safe." She also claimed that women don't feel safe.

"On January 6," she was asked, "your vehicle was allowed to kind of pass a viable pipe bomb, we've seen—"

"No, I was in the building," she interrupted.

"You were in the building," the journalist went on, "and we've seen what's happening with former President Trump. Do you have full confidence in the Secret Service to protect all of you? You feel safe for you and your family?"

"I do," she said multiple times before trying to link a lack of safety in the US to Trump. "But, I mean, you can go back to Ohio. Not everybody has Secret Service, and there are far too many people in our country right now who are not feeling safe. I mean, I look at Project 2025, and I look at, you know, like the 'don't say gay laws' coming out of Florida, members of the LGBTQ community don't feel safe right now, immigrants or people with an immigrant background don't feel safe right now. Women don't feel safe right now."

"And so, yes, I feel safe," she continued. "I have Secret Service protection, but that doesn't change my perspective on the importance of fighting for the safety of everybody in our country and and doing everything we can to again, lift people up and not beat people down so they feel alone and are made to feel small and made to feel like they're somehow not a part of it or us."

Harris was slammed for the response, with many social media pundits noting that she had been one of the top advocates for defunding the police and promoted a bail fund to help free rioters from jail during the Antifa/BLM riots in 2020. Others noted that if Harris wanted to make people safer, she could have worked to do it over the last three and a half years while she was vice president and could still do so now while she is in office.

After the first assassination attempt on Trump in July, the Secret Service fell under heavy scrutiny. Then-Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after acknowledging the security lapses that led up to the shooting. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers had called for her to resign in disgrace.

On Monday, President Joe Biden told reporters “There is one thing I wanna make clear: The service needs more help. And I think Congress should respond to their needs if they in fact need more services."