Kamala Harris addresses Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-- Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on Air Force Two at the Indianapolis International Airport Wednesday. She was the special guest at the Zeta Phi Beta 2024 Grand Boulé.

ABC57's Annie Kate attended the event to hear Kamala Harris' remarks, and she also interviewed the International President and CEO of Zeta Phi Beta, Incorporated, Dr. Stacie N.C. Grant.

"We are the first in the D9 to host the presumptive presidential nominee," Grant said. "How honored we are."

The previously booked speaking engagement drew much more attention now that Harris is the Democratic frontrunner for the presidential race.

"During the height of a pandemic, you helped elect Joe Biden as President of the United States, and you helped elect me as the first woman Vice President of the United States,” Harris said.

The event was not a rally but the annual conference for Zeta Phi Beta, a Divine Nine historically black sorority.

"What better way to talk about advocating for social justice, health justice, and economic justice than to be addressed by the sitting vice president of the United States and presumptive presidential nominee for the Democrat National Party?" Grant said. "As an organization, we don't tell our members what to do, we inform them of their choices, and we mobilize and educate and galvanize around that kind of educational process."

Harris is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, also in the Divine Nine.

Her message highlighted accomplishments of the Biden administration— like the cap on insulin prices and the child tax credit, “Which helped cut child poverty in half and helped cut black child poverty in half,” Harris said.

She also addressed women's issues.

“As vice president, I have taken on and elevated the issue of maternal mortality,” she said.

Harris also warned against Project 2025, a right-wing agenda for a possible Trump victory.

“This represents an outright attack on our children, our families, and our future," she said. "The extremists want to take us back, but we are not going back. We are not going back.”

And finally, she looked forward to what a Harris administration would look like, such as restoring abortion access.

“Well let me tell you something. When I am President of the United States and when Congress passes a law to restore those freedoms, I will sign it into law,” she said.