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GREENSBORO — Select her as the Democratic presidential nominee and she'll not only light into "the current occupant of the White House," but also articulate a winning financial rescue plan for the middle class, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris told an appreciative crowd Sunday at Smith High School.

The California senator and former state attorney general said that if picked as her party's standard bearer, "we will do what is necessary to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump in the White House."

She said Trump deserves the heave-ho for backtracking on virtually all of his promises to workaday Americans who are not among the wealthy class that benefited from his much ballyhooed tax break.

The 5-foot-2-inch, 54-year-old politician said Trump was not the only cause for such atrocities as the recent mass killings in El Paso, Texas. But in remarks that lasted about a half hour, she said he shared blame for setting a hateful tone.

"Of course, he did not pull the trigger," she said. "But he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition."

She said, however, that getting rid of Trump was only the first step toward transforming the country into "the America we believe in."