For a moment during the early part of Kamala Harris’s headlining speech in her Phoenix-area rally on Friday, it looked as if there might be a repeat of her high-profile rebuke of pro-Palestinian protesters from earlier in the week.

According to pool reporters, Harris was interrupted by chants of “Free, Free Palestine!” The vice president stopped, allowing supporters to chant over the protesters, then paused to address them.

“Here’s the thing: we are all in here together,” Harris said, adding that the thousands of people in attendance were there in support of democracy, “which includes respecting the voices that I think we are hearing from.”

“I have been clear: now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done. Now is the time. And the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that cease-fire deal done and bring the hostages home. So, I respect your voices, but we are here to now talk about this race in 2024.”

The stock parts of Harris’s campaign speech has settled into a comfortable, familiar rhythm after a few weeks on the road, but this trip to Mexico-adjacent Arizona included a relevant nod to border security and policy — including a jab at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s hand in freezing an apparent immigration reform and border security deal.

“We know our immigration system is broken and we know what it takes to fix it: comprehensive reform. That includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship,” Harris said, adding that Trump “does not want to fix the problem,” and “talks a big game, but does not walk the walk.”

“Earlier this year, we had a chance to pass the toughest bipartisan border security bill in decades, but Donald Trump tanked the deal,” she said. “That’s because he thought by doing that, it would help him win an election,” adding that she promises to sign the border security bill once in office.

Harris also highlighted a particularly important matter of Trump’s hand in appointing three U.S. Supreme Court justices — that he not only played a sizable part in setting the stage for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, but that the conservative Supreme Court majority granted presidential immunity for “official acts,” a term granted with little clear definition.

“He’s been effectively told he will be immune if he’s back in the White House,” Harris said. “Think about what that means when you remember Donald Trump has openly vowed, if re-elected, he will be a ‘dictator on day one,’ that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies. Remember that he even called for the ‘termination of the Constitution of the United States‘…and let us be very clear, someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again stand behind the seal of the United States President.”

Thousands were packed into an arena in the suburbs of Phoenix on Friday afternoon, for what Harris running mate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said might be the largest political gathering in Arizona history.

Desert Diamond Casino in Glendale, Ariz., holds about 19,000 people at capacity, and the visible lower-bowl seating — as well as a solid amount of space on the arena floor in front of the campaign’s podium — was filled. Much of the upper bowl was tarped or curtained off, however, and for what it’s worth, Harris’s campaign estimated about 15,000 in attendance… though, for Walz’s money, that might not be worth that much.

“It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything,” the governor quipped, hanging a lampshade on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s apparent obsession with rally attendance.

Walz was preceded by Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Kelly’s wife. Giffords offered brief remarks, including a reference to her own attempted assassination in 2011, as she urged rally goers to “join her” in “fighting to make the country safer” and “move ahead together.”

Kelly acknowledged and slapped down the attacks made by Trump running mate and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, seeking to denigrate Walz’s military service as a member of the Minnesota Army Reserve. Walz, he said, served honorably for decades. 

“Donald Trump calls those who served suckers and losers, and he has zero respect for any of us who have worn the uniform,” said Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy pilot and former astronaut. “Folks here in Arizona, we don’t attack people for their service to our country. We thank them.”

Harris and Walz are expected to continue their swing state blitz on Saturday with a stop in Las Vegas.