Elizabeth Warren rallies voters across Southeastern Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren crisscrossed the Philadelphia suburbs on Sunday rallying hundreds of Kamala Harris supporters in Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery counties.

With less than 40 days to go until the presidential election, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) hundreds of Kamala Harris supporters packed inside Narberth’s municipal building for a canvass launch on Sunday. 

“I’m in this fight not for myself. I’m in this fight for my kids and my grandkids, and dammit, for my grandkids’ grandkids. That is the strength of our democracy,” Warren said. 

“Pennsylvania, it’s going to come down to you. We’re counting on you.”

Warren spent her Sunday crisscrossing Philadelphia’s collar counties by making additional stops in Bucks and Chester counties. 

Democrats are hoping to expand their margins in the Philadelphia suburbs in order to help Harris secure a victory in the crucial swing state.

For instance, Montgomery County, the most populous of Philadelphia’s collar counties, voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 with 58% percent of the vote and built upon that margin in 2020, when Biden won 62% of the vote in the county. 

Throughout her speech, Warren focused on protecting and expanding reproductive rights during a Kamala Harris administration, but she also warned how Donald Trump and JD Vance will push for a national abortion ban through Project 2025. 

“Donald Trump and JD Vance have already worked out how they, by themselves, can ban access to abortion, and I’m not just talking in red states. I’m talking in purple states and blue states,” Warren said.

“We have one and only one path to make certain that every woman in this country has access to the healthcare she needs, and that is to make sure that we have a Democratic house, a Democratic Senate, and Kamala Harris in the White House.” 

Following the rally, Warren told reporters that codifying reproductive rights is on the top of her list of policy items for a Harris-Walz administration to take up followed by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the PRO Act

The John Lewis Voting Rights Act would enshrine voting rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and expand mail-in voting and early voting for people across the country. The PRO Act seeks to expand workers rights and make it easier for workers to form a union.  

“Week number one, we’re going to make sure that women have access to abortion and IVF. That will be our first vote.” Warren said.

“Week number two, we’re going to do the John Lewis Voting Rights Act — [the] right to vote, right to get your vote counted, and ending gerrymandering. This is an investment in democracy. And week number three, we’re going to pass the PRO Act [and] meet the moment. Eighty percent of workers would like the opportunity to be able to join a union, but they can’t do it because of all the dirty tricks and law breaking that some of these giant corporations engage in.”