Vance rips Harris in battleground Georgia: 'Stop telling Americans they're bad' for wanting 'secure border'

"Here's my message to Kamala Harris," Vance told the crowd in Atlanta. "Stop censoring your fellow citizens, try to persuade them and you might actually get somewhere. Stop telling people they're racist because they want their children to go to schools with kids who speak the English language."

Vance continued, "Stop telling American citizens they're bad people because they don't want fentanyl flooding their communities. Stop telling the American people they don't deserve to have smaller hospital wait times. Stop telling the American people they're bad for wanting a secure southern border."

Vance's appearance in Georgia came as early voting numbers have hit record totals in the key battleground state where election officials say the vote count has already exceeded more than half of 2020's total turnout.

Vance told a reporter after his remarks on Saturday that he believes Republicans in Georgia have embraced early voting as opposed to past years, in part due to the election reforms the state has put in place.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed an overhaul of Georgia's election rules into law in 2021, after Trump made unproven claims of widespread voter fraud that he said cost him the state's 16 electoral votes in the last presidential election. Republicans said that new restrictions on absentee and mail-in voting, expanded voter ID requirements and prohibitions on non-poll workers from providing food and drink to voters waiting in line at poll centers were necessary to preserve election integrity.

Fox News Digital's Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report