Vice President Kamala Harris rallied what was President Joe Biden‘s campaign a day ago behind her during her first public appearance at the campaign’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

Before new “Kamala” signs and near a California flag, Harris was effusive in her praise of Biden and his campaign staff, telling them Jen O’Malley Dillon and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a former Harris Senate aide, would continue leading the team.

Harris took the opportunity to amplify her 2020 Democratic campaign message against former President Donald Trump, a preview of the next 100 days before this year’s election should she secure her party’s nomination, as is expected.

“I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris said. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”

“Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency because we here know when our middle class is strong, America is strong,” she added. “And we know that’s not the future Donald Trump is fighting for.”

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Biden, who is still recovering from COVID-19 in nearby Rehoboth Beach, called into the event, with Chavez Rodriguez holding a phone up to the lectern’s microphone so he too could address the room.

“The name has changed the top and ticket, but the mission hasn’t,” Biden said in his first public comments since announcing last weekend he would no longer be seeking reelection. “We still need to save this democracy from Trump. Trump is still a danger to the community, a danger to the nation.”