The White House on Thursday brushed aside criticisms launched by former Vice President Kamala Harris in her first major speech since leaving office following her loss to President Donald Trump in November.

In a 15-minute speech at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday, Harris reportedly touched on the anxiety and confusion that have gripped many of her Democrat supporters since Trump took office, accusing the administration of abandoning America’s highest ideals and stoking fear to push its agenda.

“It was a great reminder to the American people of just how blessed we all are that the leader sitting in the Oval Office today is President Donald Trump and not President Kamala Harris,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said at Thursday’s press briefing. “It was a helpful reminder of just what a travesty and a tragedy that would have been. It would have been the end of America.

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