PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) Vice President Kamala Harris used her first fundraiser since becoming the Democrats likely White House nominee to excoriate the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as determined to roll back Americans freedoms.

Harris traveled to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday where she was expected to raise more than $1.4 million, her campaign announced, from an audience of hundreds at the Colonial Theatre. That would be $1 million-plus more than the original goal set for the event before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

She told an excited group of supporters that she entered the race as an underdog, while expressing confidence that her surging campaign could defeat Trump.

I will fight to move our nation forward, Harris said. Donald Trump intends to take our country backwards.

Harris also poked at Trump, and his running mate Sen. JD Vance , for lobbing peculiar attacks at her and other Democrats. The vice president appeared to be alluding to a 2021 interview with Vance in which he slammed some prominent Democrats without biological children, including Harris, as childless cat ladies with no direct stake in America.

You may have noticed Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about my record and some of what he and his running mate are saying, it is just plain weird, Harris said. I mean thats the box you put that in, right?