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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand blasted away at President Donald Trump during her first campaign stop, accusing the incumbent of choosing “to tear this country part” at an upstate diner Wednesday morning.

“We have to take on President Trump and what he is doing,” Gillibrand told supporters outside of a greasy spoon in the Hudson Valley. “I believe he is literally ripping apart the fabric of this country, the moral fabric.”

She added: “We’ve got to restore that decency and our leadership in the world and so that’s why I feel so-called right now to take on that battle.”

Gillibrand made the remarks outside the Country View Diner, where supporters assembled in the early morning chill for a chance to meet the pol.

“I’m running for president of the United States,” Gillibrand said. “As a young woman, I will fight for your children as I will fight for my own.”

The 52-year-old Senator counted the diner’s owner is among her fans.

“It’s her lucky place. I’m glad she’s running. She’s a strong woman, very smart,” Andres Tsukalas, told The Times-Union, adding that he keeps a photo he took with the pol on his phone.

Her visit came just hours after the junior lawmaker announced her White House bid on the Manhattan set of comedian Stephen Colbert’s late night CBS program.

Gillibrand joins an increasingly crowded Democratic slate of candidates, seeking the party’s nomination to challenge Trump in 2020.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro have also declared they are running for the White House.

Meanwhile, New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are all openly testing the waters.

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